Want to know about the corruption in the Shale? Durango lays it out for you in style.
WHO's listening?
Also, check out Durango's pledge. Sad, but true.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wag the Dog
Today's article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about the benzene air levels should be a wake up call to all. Didn't they just tell us it was safe?
High levels of cancer-causing benzene were found in the air at 1 in every 5 sites that Texas environmental officials tested in the Barnett Shale gas field, state regulators revealed Wednesday.
The state agency knew that some of the wells were producing emissions as far back as 2007, when a contractor flew over the area with an infrared camera to look for problems. But the agency didn’t start conducting on-the-ground tests until August.
The state agency has been under pressure about the environmental effects of the Barnett Shale since October. The small town of Dish and Fort Worth business owner Deborah Rogers paid for their own tests.
"We appropriately caveated all the data" presented to the city, Sadlier said.
Also, he said, the agency doesn’t control who gets to drill where or when.
"That’s really a question for the city of Fort Worth," he said. "TCEQ is absolutely the tail of the dog."
High levels of cancer-causing benzene were found in the air at 1 in every 5 sites that Texas environmental officials tested in the Barnett Shale gas field, state regulators revealed Wednesday.
The state agency knew that some of the wells were producing emissions as far back as 2007, when a contractor flew over the area with an infrared camera to look for problems. But the agency didn’t start conducting on-the-ground tests until August.
The state agency has been under pressure about the environmental effects of the Barnett Shale since October. The small town of Dish and Fort Worth business owner Deborah Rogers paid for their own tests.
"We appropriately caveated all the data" presented to the city, Sadlier said.
Also, he said, the agency doesn’t control who gets to drill where or when.
"That’s really a question for the city of Fort Worth," he said. "TCEQ is absolutely the tail of the dog."
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
What happens...?
When you are part of the gas industry and your pants are on fire?
Time will tell.
So will the FW Weekly, don't they know that by now?
Time will tell.
So will the FW Weekly, don't they know that by now?
Lake Worth- What's it worth?
FW Weekly article. Check it out.
We especially like the line below. It's as true now as it was over a hundred years ago.
Fort Worth was growing in the early 1900s and needed a clean water supply and flood control.
The lack of dredging "was really a financial issue," said Fort Worth Water Department spokesperson Mary Gugliuzza. The city was working with the United States Army Corps of Engineers starting in the late 1990s to dredge the lake, she said, but the corps stopped doing such projects after Hurricane Katrina, citing a lack of funding. The city will still need a Corps of Engineers permit for the dredging, which could be issued in about a year, but there will be no accompanying Corps funding.
Oversight of the lake and surrounding 950 acres was passed around from city department to city department. Sometimes the water department ran it, sometimes parks and recreation, sometime planning, he said.
We especially like the line below. It's as true now as it was over a hundred years ago.
Fort Worth was growing in the early 1900s and needed a clean water supply and flood control.
The lack of dredging "was really a financial issue," said Fort Worth Water Department spokesperson Mary Gugliuzza. The city was working with the United States Army Corps of Engineers starting in the late 1990s to dredge the lake, she said, but the corps stopped doing such projects after Hurricane Katrina, citing a lack of funding. The city will still need a Corps of Engineers permit for the dredging, which could be issued in about a year, but there will be no accompanying Corps funding.
Oversight of the lake and surrounding 950 acres was passed around from city department to city department. Sometimes the water department ran it, sometimes parks and recreation, sometime planning, he said.
Drilling and Flooding
Check out the pics on TXSharon about another drilling site in a flood plain.
North Richland Hills has one too.
North Richland Hills has one too.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Lon is right on
Read the Letter about Railroad Commission Chairman Victor Carrillo in the Fort Worth Business Press.
Airing concerns
I am extremely disappointed that Chairman [Victor] Carrillo, in his January 18 op-ed response to expressed concerns about toxic pollutants resulting from natural gas drilling in North Texas, has chosen to attack the messenger and misrepresent the facts rather than take action to protect public health.
Mayor Tillman can only be accused of doing what the rest of us, including local elected officials and relevant agency heads, should have done a long time ago – demand answers to hard questions about the hidden costs of the Barnett Shale boom.
Chairman Carrillo also severely misrepresents the findings to date of Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s air monitoring efforts.
More results will be released later this month, but to say that TCEQ “found ‘No Cause for Concern’ related to Barnett Shale exploration and production” is false and misleading (in its Jan.12 press release, TCEQ makes no such claim), and only further justifies public suspicion regarding whose interests the Railroad Commission is really looking after.
– Lon Burnam
Airing concerns
I am extremely disappointed that Chairman [Victor] Carrillo, in his January 18 op-ed response to expressed concerns about toxic pollutants resulting from natural gas drilling in North Texas, has chosen to attack the messenger and misrepresent the facts rather than take action to protect public health.
Mayor Tillman can only be accused of doing what the rest of us, including local elected officials and relevant agency heads, should have done a long time ago – demand answers to hard questions about the hidden costs of the Barnett Shale boom.
Chairman Carrillo also severely misrepresents the findings to date of Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s air monitoring efforts.
More results will be released later this month, but to say that TCEQ “found ‘No Cause for Concern’ related to Barnett Shale exploration and production” is false and misleading (in its Jan.12 press release, TCEQ makes no such claim), and only further justifies public suspicion regarding whose interests the Railroad Commission is really looking after.
– Lon Burnam
Friday, January 22, 2010
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