One of our regular contributors asks,
Why must we read about this insane activity in the DALLAS paper? Could it be that our own local daily paper, our mayor (and most of the council), the Railroad Commission....AND the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality are all on the industry payroll?
Read about the latest loophole in the Dallas Morning News.
A legal loophole could be letting gas drillers inject fluids with high levels of benzene into the ground in gas-rich regions such as North Texas' Barnett Shale, a study by an environmental group finds.
"Companies are basically doing an end run around the law," said Dusty Horwitt, senior counsel for the Environmental Working Group, a Washington, D.C.-based research and advocacy organization. "Congress should never have given the oil and gas industry a free pass."
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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