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October 13, 2014
Frackers Have Launched an Aggressive Campaign to Kill Denton's Drilling Ban
If you've driven up I-35 to Denton in the last month, you may have seen one of the many billboards popping up around town. The billboards loudly proclaim the economic damage that a city ordinance banning natural gas and oil drilling could cause to the city, and encourage residents to vote against th ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2014
As Denton Voters Come Out Against Fracking, City Council Passes Surprise Temporary Fracking Ban
After the Denton City Council had its butt handed to it in court by oil company EagleRidge last Fall, Denton civic leaders decided to pretty much stop fighting EagleRidge altogether and let it drill close to a few residential neighborhoods. Residents complained, but the city said it had no choice, b ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2014
Wendy Davis' Opponents Say She'll Kill Texas' Oil Boom, but What Does Her Record Say?
We know that a Wendy Davis-governed Texas would probably be more into preserving natural resources than a Texas ruled by Greg Abbott, who has sued the EPA a modest 17 times. But in a state famous for its lax environmental regulations, how much tougher would Davis be? Local environmental issues, pa ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2013
Even Range Resources' Investors Say the Fracking Company Isn't Being Forthright about Methane Leaks
Not long after UT-Austin published an "unprecedented" study (funded by the gas industry, whoops) claiming that fracking wells are safe from methane leaks, a bunch of investors are now accusing one gas company of being dishonest about its methane problem. The natural gas industry has aggressively fo ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2013
Environmental Groups Wants EPA Investigated Over Dropped Parker County Case
Greenpeace, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Public Citizen -- along with more than 80 other groups from across the country -- are calling on the EPA Inspector General to investigate the agency's withdrawal from legal action against a company accused of contaminating a water well through its ... More >>
News
September 20, 2012
Boom or Doom?
America’s fracking gold rush portends the greatest environmental disaster of a generation.
Blogs
July 24, 2012
Lead Researcher of UT Fracking Report Has Substantial Ties To Industry
Back in February, I wrote about a heavily publicized report released by the University of Texas Energy Institute that billed itself as the authoritative guide for regulators wrestling with the extraction of natural gas from shale formations and the novel combination of directional drilling and hydra ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2012
In Fight Over Flammable Parker County Water Well, Judge Decides Who Is, Isn't A Journalist
Tricky work deciding who gets the protections of a journalist in court. In the case of a natural gas production company suing a Parker County man who blames it for contaminating his water well, state district Judge Trey Loftin attempted to suss it out in a recent order compelling fracking blogger Sh ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2012
Trey Loftin, the Judge in a High-Profile Fracking Case, is Bragging in Campaign Mailers About His EPA Nut-Kicking
Politics is politics, and incumbents running for re-election in conservative Parker County, Texas, where the local economy is fueled entirely by shale-gas production, want to look like champions of the industry. But what if you're a judge? And what if, at the very moment you put up fliers of Rush Li ... More >>
News
April 26, 2012
How One Man's Flaming Water Fired Up a Battle Between Texas and the EPA
Steve Lipsky's epic battle and what it means for the future of fracking.
News
November 24, 2011
Fear and Fracking in Southlake
In one of America's wealthiest suburbs, an unlikely band of drilling opponents helped drive away the world's biggest energy companies. Did they save the town or ruin it?
Blogs
November 10, 2011
Local Anti-Gas Drilling Activist Catches Execs Pushing PSYOP to Deal With "Insurgency"
Last week, during an oil-and-gas drilling confab at the Hyatt Regency in Houston, execs turned their attention to a very touchy subject: how to get folks decidedly against gas drilling on their side. At which point, according to audio first obtained by CNBC earlier this week, gas-drilling spo ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2011
A Few Council Members Take in Gasland, But Not Before Mayor Mike Makes a Promise to City
Photos by Leslie MinoraAngela Hunt was asked whether it's likely Dallas will be sued by gas drillers awaiting their SUPs.Mayor Mike Rawlings took the mic before last night's Observer co-sponsored Gasland screening and told the audience of council members, activists and concerned locals, "I wi ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2011
Fracking Chemical Disclosure Bill Blasts Through Texas House, Enviros Unimpressed
From the rapidly spreading "Fracking Song" from ProPublica and Studio 20 NYU.In these final days of the 82nd Texas Legislature, lawmakers in Austin are throwing support behind Eastlake Rep. Jim Keffer's bill that'd require drillers to report the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing at each of t ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2011
New Study From Gas Drilling Activists Gathers Decade of Industrial Woes in the Barnett Shale
Natural gas activist and blogger Sharon Wilson was among the environmentalists out at Earth Day last weekend -- not far from the EPA's six-foot cardboard Al Armendariz -- and she was passing out copies of a new report she'd helped produce on gas drilling in the Barnett Shale. Produced by the Fort ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2011
Oscar-Nominated Gasland Director Josh Fox On Gas Drilling in the Barnett Shale and the Backlash from Industry
Patrick MichelsGasland director Josh Fox answers questions at an October screening at the Magnolia, alongside DISH mayor Calvin Tillman and gas drilling activist Sharon Wilson.Almost as soon as Gasland nabbed one of this year's Academy Award nominations for best documentary, industry groups rushed o ... More >>
Blogs
November 1, 2010
At Friday's Screening of Gasland, Rallying the Troops to Keep Gas Drilling Out of Dallas
Photos by Patrick MichelsAfter the movie, director Josh Fox, center, stuck around for a Q&A joined by the Sierra Club's Peter Wilson, Dallas drilling activist Raymond Crawford, DISH mayor Calvin Tillman and drilling activist Sharon Wilson.Gas drilling opponents from around North Texas rallied ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2010
As Natural Gas Drilling Spreads East Into Dallas, A New Activist Group Is Born
Patrick MichelsNo word yet on whether this guy'll turn up again at tonight's meeting.The natural gas industry's slow creep toward Dallas over the Barnett Shale has launched a small army of activists in Fort Worth's exurbs, from small-town mayors to goat fromagers -- a well-organized crew that's gott ... More >>
News
July 6, 2006
Cop Out
Former North Richland Hills Officer Allen Hill claims he killed a man in self-defense. So why didn't his department defend him?