Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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Friday, December 17, 2010

WHO's looking out for YOUR water?

hucau    7:54 AM    No comments
Flower Mound.  They are protecting Lake Grapevine.

Read about it in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Take note of WHO isn't.

A town panel has denied a request to drill for natural gas near Lake Grapevine's north shore because of concerns about potential contamination to a source of drinking water for area cities.

Concerns include the chemicals that drilling fluids contain that energy companies have resisted publicly disclosing

Keystone officials said many of the concerns are unsubstantiated. No contamination has occurred at drilling sites near several area lakes, including the Tarrant Regional Water District reservoirs Eagle Mountain Lake, Lake Bridgeport and Lake Arlington, they said.

"There have been too many incidents nationwide for us to take this lightly," Hunt told the Flower Mound panel. "The risk is too great to our water supply."

However, the Army Corps of Engineers, which owns the lake and several surrounding properties, said in a July 2 letter to Flower Mound environmental officials that drilling on the site would pose little or no risk.

Well said

hucau    7:47 AM    No comments
Great letter in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram today.  We agree.

Fort Worth face-off

Mitchell Schnurman's Wednesday column describes some streetcar advocates as acting like big babies -- since I didn't get my way, I'm going to move out of town. (See: "Streetcar lines now looking like fault lines")

Perhaps that is best because folks like that will not help the city grow. Many of the people I know were against streetcars right now because of finances. The city cannot afford to incur more debt without the ability to pay unless taxes are raised. Continual growth will come with a strong financial base, and that is what Fort Worth has to have.

It is most discouraging that Schnurman's column reads like an attempt to pit one part of the city against another.

-- Carol Graves, Fort Worth

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Texas Railroad Commission Railroading

hucau    1:46 PM    No comments
The Railroad Commission wrote a letter to the paper?  To try and spin their image?  Is it any coincidence this was done during the week of their Sunset Review in Austin? Or the same week two more federal lawsuits were announced concerning water contamination due to gas drilling in the Barnett Shale?

Many of our fellow neighbors and friends made the trip to Austin yesterday to testify about the Railroad Commission.  Many that did the reviewing were not pleased with the agency and its performance, or lack thereof.

The letter says "Our investigation will not be distracted by press releases or politics".  What about campaign contributions and cash gifts?  That question was raised yesterday.  Do YOU want an answer?  Demand it.

Remember Palo Pinto

hucau    1:35 PM    No comments

By Don Young...

The explosion at Palo Pinto gave the City of Fort Worth and environs a suitable warning. It went unheeded. Locally elected officials, following the lead of gas & oil man, Mayor Mike Moncrief, chose to ignore the warning. Five years later, they are STILL ignoring it. We STILL have an inadequate drilling ordinance. We STILL don't have an proper environmental study. But we DO have the same elected officials

And they are STILL accountable. Remember their names.

Read all about it on FWCANDO.
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