Posts Tagged ‘companies’
Down the Pipe
When the drilling rigs are long gone, the dangers of gas pipelines will be just beginning.PETER GORMAN
Chuck Paul bought 64 acres of land in DISH, Texas, north of Denton, several years ago. The father of four intended to live there with his family until the Metroplex grew to reach his area, then sell it to a developer.
More Bucks for Bidness, Less for Kids
StaticState Sen. Wendy Davis fought long and hard earlier this year to find a way to keep the state from cutting $5 billion in education spending. One of her proposals was to keep private corporations — particularly energy companie...
Dark and Scary Wells
The more North Texans learn about shale drilling, the higher the stakes seem.Fort Worth Weekly Staff
When the Barnett Shale drilling boom first swam into the public consciousness almost a decade ago, people all over Tarrant County had questions, mostly about how much money property owners could make and how to get the best dea...
Toxic drilling waste is getting spread all over Texas farmland.
Gas drilling waste is getting spread all over Texas farmland.ERIC GRIFFEY
When Tim and Christine Ruggiero bought their dream home on 10 acres in Decatur six years ago, they imagined their daughter riding horses and taking in the clean country air. The last thing they imagined was that all three of th...
Courthouse Gusher
The latest Barnett Shale boom is in lawsuits over broken deals.DAN MCGRAW
In August 2008, the Southwest Fort Worth Alliance, a collection of homeowners associations representing about 25,000 property owners, approved a natural gas leasing deal with Vantage Energy that provided for bonuses of $27,500 ...
The Nightmare Underground
StaticA group that the Associated Press has called a “green dream team” of policy experts and scientists has concluded that the future is anything but green for groundwater resources in many parts of our country, thanks t...
Greening the Gas Field?
GAYLE REAVESIn North Texas these days, it seems like you can’t drive 50 feet down the highway – or even a neighborhood feeder road – without spotting another gas well or compressor station or a well pad waiting to be dril...
Shift in the Shale
Peter GormanAs avenues go, Carter Avenue, on Fort Worth’s East Side, is pretty modest. But a lot of North Texas gas drilling activists are hoping it will turn out to be the Ground Zero of something big.
Geeks Get Respect
KRISTIAN LIN AND COLE WILLIAMS“At Southern Methodist University, you can now major in video games. Finally, a degree more useless than political science.” – Jay Leno
Read with Gloves On
John Q. PublicTo the editor: Peter Gorman’s well-documented article (“Sacrificed to Shale,” Oct. 14, 2009) is a jaw-dropping report. You need a pair of asbestos gloves just to read it.