Buzzworms in the Backyard
Strikes Again!
January 9-30, 2009
The deadline for entries in the Buzzworms in the Backyard exhibition is is Saturday, January 3, 2-5PM.
See the details
Registration Form
Picnic at Gateway Park Anyone?
Buzzworms in the Backyard
Strikes Again!
January 9-30, 2009
The deadline for entries in the Buzzworms in the Backyard exhibition is is Saturday, January 3, 2-5PM.
See the details
Registration Form
Submitted by don on Fri, 08/28/2009 - 1:37pm.
City of Fort Worth elected officials have become crack-shots at foot-shooting. (see latest in story below)
The real tragedy facing Gateway Park, one of Fort Worth's largest, is the ever-expanding ring of gas wells, un-odorized gas pipelines that surround it on all sides and the dangerous flaring that regularly occurs there.
Would your family feel safe having a picnic in the middle of natural gas facility? They're not even that dumb in Midland, Texas!
You may recall the debacle that occurred at Gateway in June of 2008. With new gas wells all around him, the FW senior Fire Marshall allowed a fireworks show in the middle of a drought with 37 mph winds and 6,000 men, women and children attending a ball-game there.
Nine fire-trucks, 22 firefighters and several hours later the fire had burned ten acres less than a half mile from a gas well and Interstate 30. Luck and lunacy in action.
At this very moment, even more pipeline activity is going on at the entrance to Gateway. More gas well permits have been issued. More pad-sites are being cleared of vegetation. Dozens of tanker trucks full of toxic saltwater negotiate the narrow and winding street every day. More fugitive emissions are blowing in the wind and into our lungs. With amenities like these who cares about ants in the potato salad.
The entrance of Gateway Park looks like the Gateway to Dante's Inferno. Frost Brothers has wells on both sides of Beach Street. Major pipelines snake in every direction.
There's enough orange and pink survey ribbons flying near Gateway Park to weave a courtly robe for the habitually unclothed, "Emperor" Moncrief.
Unfortunately, the situation at Gateway Park is happening all over north Texas thanks to Barnett Shale mania endorsed and encouraged by the Mayor and City Council of Fort Worth. This is one of those "hidden costs" FWCanDo started warning of in 2005.
The city will need to spend some Big Barnett Shale Bucks deceiving FW residents into thinking Gateway Park is a Stay-cation destination. They might as well rename it, Gateway Cemetery.
"Dahling I love you but give me Park Avenue"