Posts Tagged ‘mineral’
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...
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...
Paper Promises
Some North Texas landowners found out their gas leases were just hot air.Peter Gorman
While the Barnett Shale may be one of the largest natural gas plays in the United States, causing a frenzy among drillers and making millionaires out of many a small rancher in several North Texas counties, at least one group o...
Fighting Back
Jeff PrinceCows grudgingly rise from mid-morning naps as Billy Mitchell’s Ford F-250 jostles down a dirt road past the oak trees he climbed as a kid.
Drilling Through Peace and Property
Neighbors and activists fear gas wells are digging big holes in Fort Worth’s future.Gayle Reaves
Carl Fors wanted out. The noise and vibration from the gas well behind his house were enough to make the plates in his cupboard bounce.