Posts Tagged ‘Chesapeake Energy’
Sow, Reap
Chesapeake and Range Resources are fighting legal challenges in other states.PETER GORMAN
Chesapeake Energy and Range Resources, two major gas drillers that pretty much packed up and left Tarrant County once the Barnett Shale’s best days were gone, are in hot water in other parts of the country. Chesapeake faces c...
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...
End Run for Chesapeake
Refused once, landowners are trying again to get a zoning change for a huge compressor station.PETER GORMAN
A company that failed to get a zoning change on a piece of Eastside land last year — which would have permitted Chesapeake Energy to build one of the largest urban natural gas compressor stations in the country — is trying ...
Dammed
The waters have receded, but flooding near Randol Mill isn’t solved.LISA MARIA GARZA
Mary Kelleher and her neighbors on Randol Mill Road in East Fort Worth thought they had discovered the causes behind the severe flooding problems on their land over the last two years — gas drilling activities, in the form of...
Why Some Locals Root For Miami Heat
Jeff PrinceThe NBA Finals that the Dallas Mavericks failed to reach because owner Mark Cuban blew up the team (I digress) is approaching Game 5 tonight. The Miami Heat leads the Oklahoma City Thunder 3-1 in the best of seven series. NBA f...
Fracking Chesapeake Reduces Force
Jeff Prince Chesapeake Energy Corp. announced it is laying off 70 employees in the Fort Worth and Cleburn offices. Chesapeake spokesperson Julie H. Wilson begins the press release like this: “I have some news to share.” ...
Vapors Sicken Arlington
Complaints of illnesses from fracking fall on deaf ears.PETER GORMAN
Residents of several Arlington neighborhoods where Chesapeake Energy is drilling for natural gas claim the vapor clouds released by certain stages of the operations are making them sick — and they’re challenging the company...
Chesapeake Blinking On Carter Avenue Pipeline?
Jeff PrinceChesapeake Energy has been trying to force East Side residents to allow massive gas pipelines to be buried in their yards on Carter Avenue for about two years now. Needless to say, some residents don’t want potentially da...
Avoid The Chesapeake Chop
Jeff PrinceCows are tough critters. If you don’t believe me, watch Rawhide. Cows once walked on four legs across the toughest terrains imaginable in slushy winters and scorching summers from Texas to Kansas, consuming nothing but grass ...