Gas Drilling Educational Series
Title: Gas Drilling Educational Series
Location: University Christian Church, 2720 S. University Drive.
Description: Fort Worth League of Neighborhoods and the League of Women Voters of Tarrant County host the third Gas Drilling Educational Series meeting titled Citizens’ Perspectives on Urban Gas Drilling. Speakers include Rebecca Belcher, President, Flower Mound Citizens Against Urban Drilling; Gary Hogan, Neighborhood District Representative, FTW Gas Drilling Task Force (Council District 3); and Susan De La Santos, Neighborhood District Representative, FTW Gas Drilling Task Force (Council District 8).
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-08-28
Gas Drilling Task Force Schedule, Updated
August 18: Finalize recommendations on Compressor Stations, review of comments at the 8/11 Public Hearing
August 25: Discussion on Setbacks and Enhanced Standards by Well Classification
September 8: Finalize recommendations on Setbacks and Discussion Enhanced Standards by Well Classification
September 15: Discussion on Environmental Impacts
September 22: Finalize recommendations on Environmental Impacts and Review of Final Recommendations to the City Council
September 29: Public Hearing
September 30: Review of public hearing comments and finalize recommendations to City Council
October 7: Pre-Council presentation on Task Force recommendations
For more information about the Gas Drilling Task Force, visit: http://www.fortworthgov.org/gaswells/default.aspx?id=50580
Gas Drilling Educational Series
Title: Gas Drilling Educational Series
Location: Intermodal Transportation Center
Description: Gas Well Water Disposal: Two Alternatives. Injection wells – Woody Sandlin, Chesapeake Energy and Waste Water Recycling—Jay Ewing, Devon Energy & Julia Holden, Fountain Quail Water Management
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-08-13
Gas Drilling Task Force Second Public Hearing
Title: Gas Drilling Task Force Second Public Hearing
Location: City Council Chambers, City Hall
Description: There will be a Gas Drilling Task Force public hearing on August 11, 2008 at 6:30 pm, City Council Chambers, City Hall. The public hearing will allow the public to comment on the Task Force recommendations.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2008-08-11
Gas Drilling Educational Series
Title: Gas Drilling Educational Series
Location: FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH at 1000 Penn Street.
Description: Pipelines, Eminent Domain, Water Issues: How does it all affect you and your neighborhood?
THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2008, 7:00 P.M.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH at 1000 Penn Street. Featured discussion: GAS PIPELINES AND EMINENT DOMAIN
Featured guests: GLENN SODD, ATTORNEY, CORSICANA; JIM BRADBURY, ATTORNEY, FORT WORTH
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2008-08-07
Gas Pipeline Workshop
Title: Gas Pipeline Workshop
Location: South Texas Room (Amon Carter Jr. Exhibit Hall) at Will Rogers Memorial Center
Description: There will be a Gas Pipeline Workshop on August 7, 2008 from 12:00 – 3:00 pm. (Please note the change in start time from 1:00 PM to Noon.) This will be a joint meeting between the City Council and the Gas Drilling Task Force and will include a series of informative speakers. The meeting will be held in the South Texas Room (Amon Carter Jr. Exhibit Hall) at Will Rogers Memorial Center and will be broadcast on the City of Fort Worth cable access channel. For additional information, please visit www.fortworthgov.org/gaswells.
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2008-08-07
Natural Gas Drilling Moratorium Rally
Title: Natural Gas Drilling Moratorium Rally
Location: Will Rogers Auditorium (entrance near Round up Inn)
Description: Please attend a natural gas drilling moratorium rally on Thursday, Aug. 7th at 11:00 a.m. at Will Rogers Auditorium (entrance near Round up Inn.) For more information, including a map, go to www.gasmoratorium.org.
Start Time: 11:00
Date: 2008-08-07
Bill Fisher on Urban Gas Drilling
Three local experts spoke to Arlington Heights residents during the August general membership meeting about the safety and legal issues surrounding gas drilling in the Barnett Shale. Links to their presentations are available on our website. Jerry Lobdill, a physicist and chemical engineer, expressed grave concerns about drilling in urban settings. Jerry is also petitioning the federal government for intervention on gas pipelines. Mike Martin, an attorney specializing in eminent domain with Cotten, Schmidt Law Firm, spoke and provided the Texas Landowner’s Bill of Rights.
Finally, Bill Fisher, a local attorney, who once served as an executive vice president of a pipeline company also spoke. Fisher, who knows much about the industry, wasn’t shy about asserting that he doesn’t like how drilling is being played out in Fort Worth. An outline of his presentation along with articles and links follows.
1. The current pipeline situation is very unsafe
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Three injured in McKinney gas-line explosion featured on dallasnews.com on May 17, 2008. Please visit Mckinney Explosion on Dallasnews.com
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Atmos Energy Cautions: Call 8-1-1 Before Digging: Underground Has Become a Web of Utility and Service Lines. Visit Atmos 811
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Along with residents, the Transportation Department is concerned about safety. “It’s a high-pressure, raw gas line; something we consider as a safety factor because we have people that use that” right of way, including Transportation Department crews and other utilities, Lopez said in a Fort Worth Star-Telegram.com article titled Fort Worth residents stepping up pipeline fight on July 21, 2006.
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To see a working list of pipeline accidents, please visit Pipeline Accidents and More Pipeline Accidents
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Ten Campers Dead After Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion in New Mexico. Visit New Mexico Explosion
2. The use of eminent domain to take homeowners’ land and bury pipelines in front yards is wrong.
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Fort Worth residents stepping up pipeline fight. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, July 21. Visit Startelegram.com
3. Wet Gas can corrode pipelines and cause leaks
- 2007 Parker County/New Line/RAW/Unodorized Gas. Visit Youtube Gas Explosion Video to view a live report of this incident.
- Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation natural gas pipeline explosion and fire. Visit Wikipedia Article on Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation natural gas pipeline explosion
4. Utility companies began adding odorant to their product after an explosion at a New London elementary school killed nearly 319 people in 1937, but the companies that explore for gas often don’t do that.
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Pipeline & Gas Journal, Nov 2006: “Early in 1973, the New London school board, in order to save money, cancelled their natural gas contract. Instead, plumbers installed a tap into a residential gas line associated with oil production. Natural gas, which is odorless and therefore undetectable to the human nose, had been leaked from the connection to the residential line. The gas had built up inside an enclosed crawlspace that ran the entire length of the school building. Students had been complaining of headaches for some time, but little attention was paid. On Thursday March 18, 1937 at approximately 3 p.m., a spark ignited the accumulated gas-air mixture in the building. Estimates of the number dead vary from 293 to 319.” Visit New London School Explosion
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March 18, 1937: The New London School Disaster—The Day the Clock Stood Still. The New London School Disaster
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Title 49: Transportation Code of Federal Regulations regarding Odorization of gas: Transportation Code of Federal Regulations
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Title 49: Transportation Code of Federal Regulations regarding Maximum and minimum allowable operating pressure; Low-pressure distribution systems. Transportation Code of Federal Regulations
5. Brenham Explosion: In 1992, a gas storage facility near Brenham, Texas leaked natural gas vapors that ignited and exploded. The resulting explosion was the size of an atomic bomb that was felt 90 miles away in Houston.
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“Could It Happen Again? Brenham Explosion Sends Emotional Shock Waves” at Could It Happen Again?
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15 Years—The Brenham Blast. To read this article, visit 15 Years—The Brenham Blast
6. Google New London Texas school gas explosion as well as gas pipeline explosion and fires
