YOU are invited!

There will be a public hearing for the Energy Resources Committee. Speculation is this is the beginning of an attempt to take authority away from municipalities to determine how gas drilling is done in their towns.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE: Energy Resources

TIME & DATE:

9:00 AM, Thursday, November 18, 2010

PLACE:

Fort Worth, TX City Hall - 1000 Throckmorton St.

CHAIR: Rep. Jim Keffer

The Energy Resources Committee will meet to discuss interim charge #1:

Survey current local ordinances governing surface use of property in oil

and gas development. Recommend changes, if any, to the authority of the

Railroad Commission to regulate the operation of oil and gas industries in

urban areas of the state, particularly the Barnett Shale.

The Committee will hear both invited and public testimony.

For questions regarding the hearing, please contact Bernice

Espinosa-Torres or Ky Ash at (512)463-0656.