Posts Tagged ‘shaletest’
Bad Air Day
Around North Texas parks and playgrounds, children are breathing dangerous doses of toxic fumes from gas industry sites.PETER GORMAN W/ PHOTOS BY LEE CHASTAIN
On a crisp Saturday morning, Delga Park, just north of downtown Fort Worth, was beautiful. The deep blue sky was spattered with cumulus clouds, and birds flitted among shade trees at one end of the park, sandwiched between I-35...
Happy New Year
StaticWhat seemed like a dream home in 2004 became a living nightmare for Tim and Christine Ruggiero after drillers started fracking for natural gas just 300 feet from their front door in Decatur. Fort Worth Weekly and others wrote s...
Calvin Tillman After The Storm
Jeff PrinceRemember the former mayor of DISH who fled the city after gas drillers turned it into an industrial site? Tillman and some of his townsfolk fought a long time against state laws and regulatory agencies that are geared toward pr...
Starting with the Weekly
StaticFort Worth Weekly’s numerous stories during the early days of natural gas exploration in the Barnett Shale played a prominent role in research by Pennsylvania film director Josh Fox, whose documentary Gasland won a jury prize...
Gasland, Josh Fox In Town Tonight
Jeff PrinceAnyone interested in the gas drilling phenomenon can get an eye-opener tonight at the Gasland screening. Gasland, on HBO’s extended playlist through 2012, nabbed a special jury prize at this year’s Sundance Film Fes...