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Rule #1: Never believe anything gas drillers say.
Never.
Don't worry. It's only an Earthquake.
You should be more worried about this:
and this:
http://txsharon.blogspot.com/2009/08/breaking-chesapeake-official-admits...
News changes fast in the gas patch, but here's the latest as of 8/13/09 at 23:30 hours, CST.
CBS-11:
http://cbs11tv.com/local/earthquake.earthquakes.natural.2.1128016.html
Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125020088034530363.html
FW Star-Telegram:
http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1537502.html
USA Today/ABC NEWS:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2009-06-15-drilling-earthquake_N.ht...
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=7826300 read more of this posting »
August 4th, 2009, marks the fourth anniversary of the founding of FWCanDo (Fort Worth Citizens Against Neighborhood Drilling Operations). Like all four year olds we've been bratty at times but not without provocation. We only mean to take a harmless machete to your intellectual thicket.
That's four years of Just Saying No to irresponsible gas drilling. Four years of delivering important information and commentary about a complex subject that affects everyone in north Texas. Four years of trying to squeeze some justice out of crooked politicians. Four years of telling it like it is whether "it" is pleasant or not. read more of this posting »
The video you are about to see shows what looks like billowing smoke and fire coming from a natural gas well in the Barnett Shale.
Looks can be deceiving.
Instead, you are seeing plumes of invisible hydrocarbon emissions through the lens of a high-tech video camera. Multiply this by thousands of such "dirty-burning" drilling sites in north Texas and you can understand why gas drilling is a far-reaching endangerment to public health.
The thermal imaging demonstrated in this video is proof that you and your family, your pets and wildlife are breathing this new source of smog - 200 tons per day, on average, in the Metroplex - because an unscrupulous industry exploits a loophole in the federal Clean Air Act. read more of this posting »
After suffering through another unhealthy ozone day in Fort Worth, Texas, I turned on Turner Classic Movies to watch the old classic western movie, Dodge City. When a group of pioneers first arrived in Dodge City, one of them said,
"Well, well. So this is Dodge City, huh? Sort of smells like Fort Worth, don't it."
Naturally, he was referring to the sweet perfume of the sacred icon of Cowtown, not the odor of hydrocarbons.
Many non-Texans don't realize that, before 2005 when the Barnett Shale was just cow-pie in the sky, Fort Worth was NOT and had NEVER had been an oil & gas town. No way! They call it Cowtown for a reason.
Times have changed. read more of this posting »
While celebrating your freedom and independence this weekend please take a moment to recall that red-blooded, Greek philospher, Socrates, the famous war hero, revolutionary and defender of truth who proclaimed...
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
If Socrates were alive today and a Citizen of the Shale he might ask questions like:
"What matters most?
"Have we done enough to protect our children and families?"
"Why do we keep electing the same crooks to public office?" and most importantly,
"Why aren't we raising hell instead of eating hot dogs and watching baseball while the enemy is at the gate hiding in a red, white and blue Trojan horse?" read more of this posting »
FWCanDo supports Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) efforts to close the Halliburton Loophole with legislation (H.R. 2766) that would remove gas driller's exemption from the Clean Drinking Water Act.
This important legislation would force gas drillers to abide by the Clean Drinking Water Act like every other industry.
Read more about the Halliburton Loophole here:
http://txsharon.blogspot.com/2009/05/close-halliburton-loophole.html
ACTION Alert:
Please visit the NRDC Action Center website and send a message to your congressional representative:
That's how long it takes to watch the new preview video of the upcoming documentary film by Josh Fox, Water Under Attack. It might change your life.
Watch it here:
>>> For a native of Cowtown, Texas, I'm not a big fan of cows and stock-shows. The environmental impact of livestock on planet Earth is a dirty little secret. But, I do like my organic blueberry yogurt in the morning. Recently, I read a report in the New York Times that made me feel less guilty about breakfast but more fed up with gas drillers. The bottom line is this:
Cows are doing more to clean up their "emissions" than is the gas drilling industry.
A True Story-
Cows are notorious producers of methane "eruptions". But did you know that the average cow adds 200 - 400 pounds of methane a year to the atmosphere? read more of this posting »
Question:
What has the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality done now?
(Hint: It's also the height of irresponsibility.)
Conclusion: The "Don't mess with Texas" campaign is now officially kaput. It's OK to start throwing your beer cans and fast food trash out the window again.
Read the story here:
The "clean natural gas" myth has been debunked by none other than the State of Texas.
Mike Moncrief, Ed Ireland, Chesapeake, XTO and other environmental criminals were wrong.
Barnett Shale gas is now, officially, just another dirty fossil fuel and a major contributor to DFW smog.
How much?
200 TONS per day !!!!!
Dr. Al Armendariz of SMU, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) all agree that oil and gas development in the Barnett Shale is about equal to all the vehicles in the 9 county DFW Metroplex.
This particular study is ONLY about air quality. read more of this posting »