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INDEX:
A sampling of Barnett Shale and other oil and gas related posts.

VIDEOS ON YouTube


Behind the Shale: A Five Part Series

  • A five part series

Hydraulic Fracturing

  • EPA Confirms Drinking Water Contamination By Toxics Used in Fracturing
  • Breaking! Chesapeake Official Admits: Fracking Fluid Deadly!
  • Update on Cattle Killed by Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid in Louisiana
  • Face-Off Over 'Fracking': Water Battle Brews On Hill
  • Tell Congress to close the "Halliburton Loophole" to protect drinking water from contamination
  • Hydraulic Fracture: Oops! Wrong Formation!
  • Hexavalent Chromium Used for Hydraulic Fracturing
  • Midland Hexavalent Chromium Contamination Spreads. Hydraulic Fracture Giant Still Prime Suspect.
  • Frac Water Chemicals Chemical Components (From MSDS)
  • Hydraulic Fracture: Your Money or Your Life
  • Hydraulic Fracturing: Me thinks thou dost protest too much
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Barnett Shale Earthquakes: Some Fracking History
  • Hydraulic Fracture: The Truth About State versus Federal Regulation
  • Contamination Case Pending on Hydraulic Fracturing Giant Schlumberger
  • Close the Halliburton Loophole
  • EPA Admits Hydraulic Fracturing Risks Needs More Study
  • Hydraulic Fracture Fluid Kills Cattle Near Chesapeake Well
  • Hydraulic Fracture: Precise or Imprecise?
  • Natural Gas Production Causing Water Bankruptcy
  • Video: Hydraulic Fracture - Barnett Shale Gas Well
  • If hydraulic fracturing is so damn safe, why does Big Oil need exemptions?
  • Natural Gas Found in Private Water Wells: How the oil and gas industry is exactly like the tobacco industry.
  • Viewer Reactions to Hydraulic Fracturing Film
  • Fracing Fluid Chemicals Identified
  • Dick Cheney and Halliburton Fracking in YOUR Drinking Water.

Natural Gas: Myth Busting the Clean Energy and Keeping Us Safer Lies

  • Myth Busting 1
  • Myth Busting 2
  • Myth Busting: Sarah Palin's Big Lie
  • Watch these important videos

Water: Depletion

  • Natural Gas Production Causing Water Bankruptcy
  • Barnett Shale Water Use: The Facts You Must Face.
  • Barnett Shale Drilling: An Insatiable Thirst
  • Devon Energy Testing New Water Recycling Program
  • We Have a Groundwater District!
  • Upper Trinity Ground Water Conservation District
  • Groundwater Conservation Districts are a good first step

Water: Pollution

  • Natural Gas Found in Private Water Wells: How the oil and gas industry is exactly like the tobacco industry.
  • Hey, Braden Exploration! Are you illegally dumping drilling waste in Wise County?
  • Frac Water Chemicals Chemical Components (From MSDS)
  • Dick Cheney and Halliburton: Hydraulic Fracturing Chemicals in YOUR Drinking Water.
  • “Hydraulic Fracturing” of [Barnett] Shale, America Strikes a Faustian Bargain
  • Fire Water: With Compliments From EnCana
  • Another Story of Water Poisoned by Gas Wells
  • Poisoned Aquifer: Barnett Shale, fracing up our water.
  • Burning Water Compliments of the Barnett Shale
  • Five Years Later, Panola County Citizens Finally Get Clean Water
  • Drilling Waste Poisons Water, Goats Die, Railroad Commission Yawns
  • Gas Well Contaminates Water Wells With Benzene
  • Texas Egregiously Exceeded Permits.
  • Don't Drink the Water
  • Barnett Shale drilling: Depleting and polluting our water in Wise County, Texas
  • Will Wise County get Fort Worth's Barnett Shale drilling waste water?

Air Pollution

  • Barnett Shale Victim: DISH, TX Resident Tested Positive for Carbon Disulfide
  • EDF Analysis: Barnett Shale Drilling Causes Polluted Air
  • Dear EPA: TX Regulators too Conflicted to Regulate
  • NPR: State Tests Air Around Drilling And Pipeline Sites
  • Seeing Methane Leaks Through an Infrared Camera
  • BREAKING: Methane 3 times higher than normal in DISH, TX
  • Barnett Shale: The Personal Tragedies of DISH, Texas
  • City reports toxic results of study of natural gas complex
  • What the Barnett Shale Brought to DISH,TX
  • In DISH, TX, Animals Go To Sleep and Never Wake Up
  • Does the gas industry threaten your health?
  • URGENT: Health Survey For All Current and Former Clark/DISH, Texas Residents
  • Evaluation of Town of DISH, Texas Ambient Air Monitoring Analysis
  • STATE DATA SUPPORTS CONCLUSIONS OF EDF/SMU STUDY ON BARNETT SHALE EMISSIONS
  • Report: Emissions from Natural Gas Production in the Barnett Shale Area
  • Video Shows Emissions From Barnett Shale Drilling Rig In Denton County, Texas
  • Devon Has Duty to Minimize Air Pollution. (And they can afford it!)
  • Want Cancer? Move to Texas.
  • Gas Extraction Causes Ozone Alerts in Wyoming
  • Chesapeake Energy: Latest Plan for Drilling Waste
  • The Domestic Drilling Agenda: How We Can Protect Ourselves From the Environmental Devastation

Radioactive Drilling Waste

  • Radioactive Drilling Sand
  • Barnett Shale Radioactive Waste is Bone-Seeking Carcinogen When Airborne and Has 1622 Year Half-Life
  • RRC Has Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy on Barnett Shale Radioactive Waste
  • Barnett Shale and NORM - Eye Opening News

Sludge Pits

  • More Barnett Shale Sludge Pit Pollution Pictures
  • PIctures of Barnett Shale Pollution in Wise County
  • A Barnett Shale Sludge Pit Looks Like This

Injection/Disposal Wells

  • They Call Them Saltwater Disposal/Injection Wells
  • Injection Well In Aledo Fails.
  • Texas Injection Wells and Sinkhole Make National News
  • Another Injection Well Fire Burns for Seven Hours
  • How Are Injection Well and Gas Coupling Inspections Alike?
  • An Injection Well, Up Close and Personal.
  • Update: Injection Well Fire! NOT the First Time
  • Oh Lookie! One Of Those "Safe" Injection Wells is On Fire
  • Stop The Lies: Read This Injection Well Permit

Pipelines and Explosions

  • Several posts you can scroll through

Big Oil and Big Money Buys Big Influence

  • Big Oil. HUGE Money. ENORMOUS Influence.
  • Oil and Gas Profits Used to Lobby Against You and Me
  • Devon Energy: $2.6 Billion Profit Buys Lobbyist
  • Devon Energy Net for 2007: $3.6 billion

Noise Pollution & Quality of Life

  • Barnett Shale Gas Well Compressor Noise Tortures Wise County
  • Are you terrorized by Barnett Shale compressor noise?
  • Shelley Fell Into the Barnett Shale Hell

Texas Railroad Commission

  • Texas Railroad Commission Update by Brett Shipp
  • Texas Railroad Commission Needs Much More Than Name Change
  • Brett Shipp Exposes the Texas Railroad Commission on Bill Moyers Tonight
  • Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams Goes Orwellian
  • Railroad Commissioner Williams' Truthiness in Injection Well Case Questioned
  • Texas Railraod Commissions Against Public Interest
  • Don't Miss Brett Shipp's Special Report: Injection Wells and the Public Interest.
  • Capitol Annex Having A Fight With Michael Williams' Campaign Staff!!!
  • Texas Railroad Commission Speaker at Ft. Worth Barnett Shale Drilling Moratorium Rally
  • Texas Bloggers Bust Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams on Fuzzy Math
  • Texas Railroad Commissioners Have Ethical Deficit Disorder
  • Texas Railroad Commissioners Payola Exposed Tonight on Channel 8
  • RRC Michael Willimas Denies Human Activity Responsible for Climate Change
  • "The Railroad Commission has failed to protect Texans from oil and gas drillers"
  • WFAA Gets Peabody Award for Probing Railroad Commission "Dubious Practices"
  • Barnett Shale Expo: Texas Railroad Commission Lies Must Be Exposed
  • Texas Railroad Commission: Will this kind of malpractice cost you your life or only your health?
  • Tarrant County Finally Discovers: RRC is Incompetent
  • Atmos Energy: Big Spenders. Energy Consumers: Big Payers. RRC: Provides Cover
  • Texas Railroad Commissioner, Williams, has New Conflict of Interest
  • Texas Railroad Commission Ignored the Public Interest
  • Injection well to be shut in. RRC changes inspection procedures.
  • RRC Has Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy on Barnett Shale Radioactive Waste
  • “Mr. Carrillo's position is ludicrous” Investigation of TRC Warranted.
  • It Was Victor Carrillo Who Voted Against Coupling Removal
  • Will the Railroad Commission Put Public First?
  • Atmos Cuts Corners. TX Lives at Risk. Brett Shipp Reports
  • Texas Railroad Commission Protection Money Breakdown. Take Action.
  • RRC Michael Williams Paid Protector of Oil & Gas and Utility Companies
  • How is TxDOT like Texas Railroad Commission?
  • Will Sen. Estes Investigate the RRC for Malpractice?
  • Railroad Commission too Chummy With Industry it Regulates
  • I Channeled David Van Os at the Town Hall Meeting With St. Sen. Craig Estes
  • Brett Shipp Investigates Railroad Commission. Michael Williams Refuses to Talk
  • RRC to Stephens County: If I can't smell it, the Benzene doesn't exist.
  • The Railroad Commission Informs Me

Friday, November 21, 2008

Brett Shipp Exposes the Texas Railroad Commission on Bill Moyers Tonight

Channel 13, KERA, Bill Moyers, Journal

Posted by TXsharon at 9:09 AM  

Labels: Texas Railroad Commission

1 comments:

Malulo Numero Uno said...

going to go set my DVR!

6:23 PM

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