Mayor Leaving Texas Town Over Gas Drilling Worries

SecularMotion

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Tue Feb-22-11 09:00 PM
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Mayor Leaving Texas Town Over Gas Drilling Worries

Source: NY Times

DISH, Texas (AP) — The mayor of a tiny rural town at the heart of Texas' natural gas drilling controversy says he's leaving over concerns about his children's health problems.

Dish Mayor Calvin Tillman said he will keep fighting — although not as a politician — to make sure energy companies follow state and federal air quality regulations. Town commissioners can remove Tillman if he moves away from Dish before the May election, when his term expires.

Dish has about 200 residents. It's in the Barnett Shale, a 5,000-square-mile underground rock formation packed with natural gas. The shale spans about two dozen North Texas counties.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/02/22/business/AP-US-Texas-Gas-Drilling-Mayor.html?hp

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ejpoeta

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Tue Feb-22-11 09:04 PM
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1. was this a result of fracking? they are trying to get that here in ny.

luckily there is a moratorium at least til july. i worry though after that. i don't see how it is worth it if it poisons your water. I hope people will fucking do the research and not just rely on what glen beck says or the MSM for that matter who obviously with a few exceptions are just entertainment like professional wrestling (if you can call that entertaining).

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Tue Feb-22-11 09:46 PM
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3. Yes, horizontal hydraulic fracturing.

http://www.marcellusprotest.org/resources

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Horse with no Name

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Tue Feb-22-11 09:10 PM
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2. This town has a "get rich quick" attitude

They renamed their town to DISH to get free TV and a DVR for 10 years.
They also signed up for the Barnett Shale boondoggle.

I think he is intelligent for getting out--but seriously to expect energy companies in Texas to follow rules and regulations under this current political schema is pure nuts. Not gonna happen.

You let them in, you signed the papers, they ain't leaving.

This town was featured in Gasland--a documentary by Josh Fox.

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