Energy Company Threatens to Sue Environmental Watchdog

"So Trinity East, the gas drilling company that did a secret deal with the Dallas city manager to drill on city-owned parkland, is threatening to sue an environmental group because the group demanded more transparency about previous drilling operations.

The drilling company has threatened to sue the Texas Campaign for the Environment for making "demonstrably false" statements about a 2008 drilling operation at the University of Dallas in which a ground-water protection system cracked up and failed. The environmental group said the cracking up of the groundwater protection system could have polluted the groundwater."

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"Sure, we know you're an oil and gas company, and you can put your hands on way more lawyer money than the little rag-tags in the environmental group. But you just can't go around doing whatever you want and then threaten to ruin the little people for the same thing.

Put it a simpler way. In the game of City Hall, there are four rules. 1) Everybody can play. 2) Keep your eyes peeled and your catcher's mask on. 3) It's OK to be partial ass-holes. 4) Not total."

For the whole story:
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/03/trinity_east_staunch_defender.php



"A gas well near the University of Dallas in Irving is at work for Trinity East Energy. Yet a Dallas proposal could be key to area production. The company has sought to build a processing plant on privately owned Dallas land to collect and treat gas from dozens of wells. That would require city approval.

Dallas’ city-owned natural gas reserves aren’t waiting for the City Council to resolve a seemingly endless argument over drilling. They’re already swooshing up a well and into the market.

The well, however, is in Irving."

Sorry, you need a pass:
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/dallas/headlines/20130302-while-leaders-debate-drilling-dallas-gas-is-already-flowing-through-a-well-just-outside-city-limits.ece



This is just the latest salvo in an ongoing war between residents in the dark, and the councils in the backrooms. More to come.