Posts Tagged ‘drilling’
Approved!
Peter GormanWhen the Fort Worth City Council last month granted a variance to Chesapeake Energy allowing it to drill gas wells that will be closer to homes and parkland than city ordinance generally allows, it didn’t seem like that b...
Leasing Our Lives Away
Jerry LobdillSo you’ve signed a gas lease. Congratulations: You’ve been taken for a fool. Certain material facts were kept from you that, had you known them, likely would have made you throw the contract in the trash where it be...
Learning to Love Big Gas
Don YoungIn his Aug. 26 Fort Worth Weekly report, “The Big Takeover,” Peter Gorman wrote about all the bad publicity that natural gas extractors have been getting lately. But the industry isn’t worried: It has found ot...
Tasers: Homicide Vehicles
StaticA well-earned tip of the hat to Tarrant County Medical Examiner Nizam Peerwani, whose long-awaited decision on the April 18 cause of death of 24-year-old Michael Patrick Jacobs Jr. – who died shortly after being jolted tw...
The Big Takeover
PETER GORMANIt’s been a tough spring and summer for the gas drilling industry’s public image.
Compressed Anger
Peter GormanA minor change in a Fort Worth zoning regulation could have major repercussions. The Fort Worth City Council a few weeks ago made what looked like a small change to zoning rules, but it’s one that could have major implica...
Canary in the Coal Mine Gas Field
Pablo LastraRichard Wilkinson spent his early years wildcatting all over Texas in search of oil. During a stint in the Army in the ’50s, he fired high-caliber warning shots at Russian airplanes wandering into North Pole airspace. H...
Just Say Whoa
Jeff PrinceA new group with influential members is preparing to challenge natural gas drilling inside Fort Worth city limits. The first order of business for the Coalition for a Reformed Drilling Ordinance (CREDO) will be to demand a mora...
Starting to Sound Like “Children of the Corn”
StaticEverywhere Static turns these days is another message about the wonders of the Barnett Shale.
Paradise Lost
Their acreage in Azle was “stress-free” until the drilling started.Peter Gorman
When Mike and Annette Daniel moved to the Reata Estates gated community outside Azle last November, they thought they’d found paradise.