Please stop reporting on kids being transported at the Stock Show in strollers (duh) and if the Cowboys are still America's team. Please report on things that affect those you should be serving and things that are going on right under your noses.
WHAT will the local "news" say when some big city slicker news outfit rolls into town and starts asking WHY no one has reported on these issues? We can't wait to hear.
Of course it's not just our local media making a mockery out of themselves, national media was just put in its place by none other than Miss Piggy. Here's hoping she also comes to see us in Cowtown soon.
Anyway, during a news conference last week for the U.K. premiere of "The Muppets," Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy were asked about a December segment on Eric Bolling's "Follow the Money" that posed the question, "Are Liberals Trying to Brainwash Your Kids Against Capitalism?" One guest on the segment blasted the Muppets movie, which makes an oil executive (played by Chris Cooper) its villain.
Piggy said of the segment: "It's almost as laughable as accusing Fox News as, you know, being news."
If you want to see what YOUR tax dollars paid for, you're invited to come out to the Woodshed Wednesday afternoon. We hear there will be a big group taking a look before the boycott starts Thursday. We're also told they'll be going to eat bar-b-que at Pappa's on the Trinity River after they occupy. So, no tent needed to make a statement.
DFW.com just did an article on the repeatedly delayed opening. Wonder why they didn't do one of the flooded Wakeboard park?
Love and the Trinity River Vision Authority have taken some heat because the TRVA signed a 10-year lease with Love without open bidding. But Love says he hopes the restaurant, located just west of University Drive not far from Hoffbrau Steaks, will help open the door for other restaurants along the river.
"I've gotten beat up a little bit in the last couple of months," he continues. "But I'm trying to make [the river area] better. When I did the lease, I said, 'I want to do something for the river.' Somehow that backfired on me. I thought people would be excited about the fact that they could come here and drink a beer and 6 percent of it goes back to the [district]. I mean, that's pretty cool."
That was the proposal for a ____-billion dollar development between ________ and _____. Since the _____ was built in the early 1990s, ______ and city leaders dreamed of a town center with shopping, entertainment, hotels and high-rise condos -- an upscale money generator to justify the taxpayer subsidies that went into the ______.
That fantastic notion turned out to be a fantasy, at least for the first two decades. But the proposals also sucked all the retail oxygen out of north _____. In spring 2008, ____ -- a development pushed by former _______ -- was officially scrapped, and not long after, downtown began to emerge with a style all its own just a mile-and-a-half away.
The WFAA video that TXSharon posted shows some of what is coming from an injection well site to a creek in Johnson County. It ain't pig blood, but it ain't good. And where does this unnamed creek end up? In Joe Pool Lake. A source of drinking water for many Texans.
The FW Weekly tells you about the water battle taking place all over the United States, the battle between THE PEOPLE and the industry. What happens when it's YOUR drinking water supply? WHO will save YOU?
And the Star-Telegram tells you the latest on the Range Resources lawsuit mentioned in the part of the Weekly article below.
Did three "news" sources in Fort Worth all report on water issues? What is the world coming to?
"The gas companies own the Railroad Commission," Lipsky said in reference to Range and other natural gas producers.
Lipsky said of Range, "They own the system ... they know they got away with it (water well contamination) and they're laughing about it. ... God help us all."
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/01/28/3694982/judge-parker-county-not-the-place.html#storylink=cpy
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From FWW: The area was quickly designated an EPA Superfund site, meaning that it has been found to be contaminated with hazardous chemicals and that the EPA will try to determine who is responsible so that they can be legally forced to clean up the mess.
The EPA’s findings, released as a draft last month, clearly lay the blame at the feet of the gas industry and in particular, Encana Corporation, the gas field owner around Pavillion.
The agency found that natural gas and dangerous chemicals were migrating through local aquifers. More importantly the EPA discovered, via its own monitoring wells, that man-made chemicals used exclusively for hydraulic fracturing are showing up in the water.
In other words, these chemicals couldn’t have come from some sort of natural source or even another man-made source, but only from gas drilling. It was the first time that a direct scientific link has been made between gas drilling and groundwater contamination.
Not surprisingly, Encana and the industry are fighting back, arguing that the EPA’s findings are flawed on several grounds. The impact on their industry — and the worldwide natural gas supply situation — could be tremendous, if the EPA’s findings are upheld.
At stake are shale plays all around the country that have not been allowed to proceed until the gas industry proves it can drill without contaminating water supplies. Not to mention the blowback in places like Texas, where landowners across the Barnett Shale and other shale areas could conceivably use the EPA’s findings as a basis for damage suits and actions to prevent or stop drilling activities. The Natural Resources Defense Council has a list of 36 places around the country — including nine in the Barnett Shale — where landowners believe that gas fracking has contaminated their water wells.
One of those problem areas in North Texas, involving three homeowners in Hill County, stopped being a problem after the drillers, Williams Production–Gulf Coast Co., purchased all of the affected property. A second local case, involving possible contamination by Range Resources of water wells in Parker County is an ongoing legal battle.
That's what the note from the Fort Worth Planning Department says. Due to truck traffic. What about all that truck traffic to frack a well? Or do they only damage the roads when they are leaving?
One of THE PEOPLE wrote a letter to the Mayor and Council, any takers betting on an actual response?
Fort Worth City Council and Mayor & others
I have been sent a copy of a flyer being put out by the the City of Fort Worth that I object it's use.
I strongly object to the City sending out flyers endorsing any increased gas drilling related activities. This is especially true when the flyer is endorsed showing biased intentions. In this case, "Gas drilling has increased the need for saltwater disposal wells." The truth is, there needs to be more recycling, and not more injection wells. By recycling, I mean reusing the water that is now being wasted, like when using injection wells. This does not include the evaporation of the toxic waste water into the air that some companies try to pass off as recycling.
At a time when there is no doubt injection wells have caused or contributed to increased earthquakes near injection wells, why would City leaders even consider putting the citizens at risk?. The DFW international airport allowed an injection well on the airport property several years ago, using this same logic the City is using now. Shortly after it went into operation, there was an earthquake at DFW International that most experts agree was caused by that injection well. Even the owner of that injection well ceased operation because they knew what caused the earthquake. Even though many earthquakes are classified as small, they still cause damage such as bricks walls falling, cracked patios, damaged streets and overpasses, if it was your house, you would not consider it small. Major damage is only reported as such when there are buildings literally destroyed. Why would the City consider bringing them into a populated area like Fort Worth? You have to wonder?
The industry told us many times there is no danger from injection wells, now they only say they are regulated. Unfortunately, they are regulated by those who have heavy ties to the industry.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." How stupid have we become?
Someplace along the way it appears Fort Worth has lost sight of what happens to the people.
The article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram says "Fossil Creek" six times. It never specifies WHICH Fossil Creek, but you get the hint.
About 6:30 a.m., Haltom City shut down one side of the crossing over Fossil Creek, where Fred Napp, deputy fire chief and fire marshal, said high-water problems are common.
Even before they were finished there, the rescuers were called to another Fossil Creek crossing, Napp said.
“While we were there, we were dispatched to a second incident on Minnis Drive just south of Airport Freeway,” he said. “It was where Fossil Creek got out of its banks again. There were three vehicles involved.”
Napp said that Fossil Creek looked more like a river Wednesday morning.
“The channel got to between 40 and 50 feet deep where they’ve done some flood-control work,” he said. “It was all the way up to the rim of the channel and above where we were.”
Glenview Drive over Fossil Creek is the No. 1 spot for flooding in Haltom City, Napp said.
Lots of stuff under water in Haltom City, including gas drilling equipment in the park next to the 820 construction.
The Cowtown Wakeboard park, part of the Trinity River Vision "flood" control project in Fort Worth, failed to save anyone from flooding today. Apparently, it couldn't even save itself.
The Trinity River took back the wakeboard park. And left a sign of just how clean the river is. Remember that when they invite you to Tube the Trinity during the Rockin' the River events brought to you by the Trinity River Vision Authority and the Tarrant Regional Water District.
With all the flooding footage today, WHY did you not see any of the wakeboard park? Ask.
While you're at it, ask what it cost YOU and what it's going to cost YOU to repair it. After all, it's YOUR money.
Have you been appalled by what you see on the "news" happening in the communities? Ever been disturbed by the lack of coverage or the lack of facts shared by the media? Who knows more about what is going on in your community? A reporter with a deadline or informed citizens? Have you ever attended a city meeting? Are you concerned with your current leadership? Ever written a Letter to the Editor that was edited beyond recognition? Or not printed at all? Let us know what's going on in your cities, help to educate your neighbors. The things taking place now are regional and affect all of us. Exercise your right to be informed!
