FW CanDo!

FWCanDo predicted three years ago that urban gas drilling would push Fort Worth even FURTHER out of compliance with federal air quality standards. The report below from Wyoming, illustrates what happens to air quality when gas drilling is out of control.

After a year of intense drilling in the Barnett Shale region and the summer ozone season nearly upon us, you might want to invest in a gas mask and a geiger counter.

Thanks for nothing, Mayor Moncrief.

DY

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/rural_pollution&printer=1;_ylt=ApBgPoD5LO1ggH...

For more info about Boulder, Wyoming:

http://www.wilderness.org/WhereWeWork/Wyoming/TWTD-UpperGreen.cfm

http://www.trib.com/articles/2008/02/28/news/wyoming/e04fcdd7257756f7872... read more of this posting »

Citizens of the Shale(s):

The following Pop Quiz is REQUIRED before investing in the Barnett, Marcellus or any other Shale. Do not even consider signing a mineral lease until you have done your homework and can answer the questions satisfactorily.

If you have already signed, put on the Dunce Cap and stand in the corner until the mess you helped create is cleaned up OR, until hell freezes over, whichever comes first.

I have made it easy for you by sending you educational emails for...three...long...years. If you have been paying attention you should already know the answers. Just in case you dozed off (hahaha), I have included some helpful hints.

1) Where do the toxic by-products of urban gas drilling end up? (see burning salt water in Erath County and inside your own body) read more of this posting »

Citizens of the Shale:

Your attention please.

Wrap your mind around this.

When infinity burns in Erath County, Texas, you know you're in trouble. (see below)

In case you haven't heard, Barnett Shale salt water is flammable, toxic and radioactive.

Clean burning? Nnnnot exactly.

(Hi diddle dee dee, the guinea pig life for me!)

While Fort Worth Mayor, Mike Moncrief fiddles, Erath burns.

How are things in YOUR town?

DY

http://www.empiretribune.com/articles/2008/04/29/news/doc4817276960d9b25...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n75nvdP12Nw&feature=related

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood a beautiful day in the neighbor would you be mine? lalalalalalalala....

-----Hot off the wire:

Rusty Middleton, author of, What Lies Beneath, for the Texas Observer, has written a sequel of sorts titled, War of the Wells, for the current, April 4th issue.

Middleton reports on the failure of the Texas Railroad Commission to protect the public from out-of-control natural gas production. Rusty spent a couple of days in Fort Worth last January to see, up close, what urban gas drilling looks like.

EVEN if you have already signed away your mineral rights, you will want to read this report, :

http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2728

-----IMPORTANT! Vote April 8th!

Do something positive to help clean up the gas drilling industry: read more of this posting »

After receiving my newly minted gas drilling lease in the mail Friday I took a drive around the greater Meadowbrook area of east Fort Worth. I wanted to try and remember what it looked like two years ago before drilling started and before the next wave hits.

For one who studies urban gas drilling like a monk studies scripture, I was still taken aback at the extent to which our neighborhood has changed in such a short span of time.

We are surrounded by gas wells. From the edge of downtown to the east Loop, there is no escaping them. They have replaced former ball fields, drive-ins, native prairie, floodplains and wildlife habitat along the Trinity River. Now the drillers want to get closer to our homes. read more of this posting »

Since its founding in 2005, FWCanDo has warned that, all things considered, gas drilling may turn out to be a Net Loss, at least for urban dwellers. Some recent news reports tend to back up that claim.

In 2006, FWCanDo warned that by signing a gas lease the average homeowner may be subject to, among other things:

-Income taxes
-Property taxes
-Mortgage fees
-Increased homeowners insurance
-Increased electric bills
-Air and water pollution and soil contamination
-Loss of green space
-Parkland compromised
-Reduced quality of life
-Risk of catastrophic accidents read more of this posting »

March 11, 2008-

1) Indigenous People to Heal Our Mother Earth gathered Monday at Maya ruins in Mexico to "explore solutions to environmental pollution." Read more here:

http://www.star-telegram.com/279/story/522996.html

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/03/11/4966231-ap.html

2) The Vatican announced last weekend that pollution is "a sin of the new millennium." Read more here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL109602320080310?feedType=RSS...

3) Southern Baptists declared Monday that they have a "Biblical duty to stop global warming." Read more here about, "A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change":

http://www.baptistcreationcare.org/node/1 read more of this posting »

Why has the City of Fort Worth and other local municipalities allowed gas drilling to proceed at a rapid pace without first answering basic environmental impact questions? The easy answer is that we have been duped by a callous industry that is above the law. Another reason is that some of our esteemed, elected officials are in on the take and looking the other way.

In light of the questions raised at the current Waxman hearings and evidence presented in this report by Tom Kane of the River Reporter, any and all responsible city governments should immediately enact a moratorium on gas drilling. I think you will find this report very interesting.

http://www.riverreporter.com/issues/08-03-06/head3-gas.html read more of this posting »

The Star-Telegram editorial staff has put a bee in my bonnet.

In their 2/25/08 editorial titled, Looking Ahead, they have the nerve to suggest that urban gas drilling may cause some, unforeseen "issues in years to come." They write about "special challenges presented by urban gas drilling" like it's a pothole problem.

They go on to write that, "Neighborhood activists who are concerned about urban gas drilling should pay attention..."

Excuse me, Dear Editor, but FWCanDo and others were frantically waving our arms trying to tell you this over two years ago!

We WERE and ARE paying attention. We're waiting for you to catch up. read more of this posting »