Posts Tagged ‘wells’
Got Gas?
It's time to act to protect our health.Kendall McCook
A year and a half ago, around the time four gas wells were being drilled in my Southside neighborhood, I was driving down Berry Street past Riverside Drive when my eyesight blurred. At first I wasn’t alarmed; I figured it...
New Sheriff Armendariz Reads ‘Em Their Rights
Peter GormanRegional Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Dr. Al Armendariz made quite a splash last night at the February meeting of the North Central Texas Communities Alliance. Featured speaker Armendariz drew between 250 and 3...
Irk Edition
Last CallSo there’s this other weekly paper in town. It’s called DFW.com: Ink Edition, and it covers entertainment. If it strikes you as odd that an actual paper is a supplement to a web site — the stories that run in ...
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...
Inhale, Inhale
StaticOK, it’s time for New Year’s resolutions: Lose weight; check. Cut back on the vino; check. Be kinder to strangers; check. And … die quicker from cigarettes; check.
Challenging the Big Dogs
John Q. PublicTo the editor: The Nov. 11 Static column, “What Will it Take?,” continues the saga of Taser guns and the dangerous, sometimes lethal ramifications from their 50,000-volt power.
The Big Takeover
PETER GORMANIt’s been a tough spring and summer for the gas drilling industry’s public image.
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...
Water Foul
An aquifer is at risk – along with property values, livestock, and dreams – after gas wells move in.Peter Gorman
Brian Beadle knew something was wrong when the registered Boer goats he raises on his small farm near Grandview began swelling up just after Christmas.
Master’s Degree of a Mess
TCC’s downtown campus has failing marks in history and urban planning.Betty Brink
In October 2004, when Tarrant County College District officials posed at a ceremonial groundbreaking for their downtown campus along the Trinity River bluff just east of the Tarrant County Courthouse, Chancellor Leonardo de la ...