600 people showed up. (One "news" station said "dozens", that's lots of dozens). While the industry sent many shills as usual, seems the majority were real folks, concerned with real things...like air and water.
To read more about the meeting read TXSharon and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Excerpts below that YOU can't afford to miss.
"I'm sending out an SOS to the EPA," said fervent fracking critic Sharon Wilson, a local representative of the Texas Oil and Gas Accountability Project, which favors strong federal regulation of the energy industry and full disclosure of chemicals used in fracturing.
"We need you here. We need you on the ground. We need you now," Wilson told EPA officials, as supporters applauded enthusiastically.
"We don't know if it is actually contaminating the water or not" said Candice Brewer, President of the Texas chapter of the National Association of Royalty Owners, "There haven't been scientific studies."
Many representatives for the industry and for mineral owners came from Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas to underscore that hydraulic fracturing has been in use for more than 60 years and has safely stimulated more than 1 million wells around the country.
As one petroleum engineer made clear, horizontal hydraulic fracturing is VERY new. It's only been used for about 15 years. He said that industry should make an effort to be more honest.
AMEN.
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