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When Frack on Crack meets Herbicide Harry…..

I am so glad that Texas A&M AgriLife Extension is looking into educating the oil & gas industry in how to reduce herbicide use at pad sites. For example they need to know when the CORRECT application times/season are so … Continue reading

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Kermit Wink Sink Texas gone in a BLINK?

UPDATE for SMU study http://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/verify-is-west-texas-sinking/287-542935783 Compare the 2016 pic on left with 2018 pic on right….. end update.   Read at the end of this story the FULL witness account of THE WINK SINK on that fateful day on June 3 … Continue reading

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X Marks the Atherton Elementary Fracking Spots

Since the city is dedicating a blog spot to recently deceased Grace Atherton, it is only fitting to recognize what past council people have allowed near the school to deface it’s airshed with fracking sites. Each white dot represnts a … Continue reading

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Demand BACT from Arlington TX officials

Live in a state like Texas where they banned fracking bans? Worried drilling may start or come back to frack your town? Then copy this petition add or delete, whatever just get this to your city council and get this conversation going … Continue reading

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NERVE GAS FROM CARS (and frack sites) WITH CATALYTIC CONVERTERS?

  Catalytic converter emissions from my car (and my neighborhood frack site?) ARE NOT my neurotoxins of choice! Dr Falco says burning exhaust in a gasoline powered vehicle’s catalytic converter creates additional benzene. But does the same “added benzene” problem … Continue reading

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Frack relate SLOW 15 yr EPA Chlorpyrifos BAN from agriculture areas – so 2 Urban Drilling may one day

Trillium Management reported that the CDC found that of the 9,282 US tested citizens nationwide, that 93% had tested positive for Chlorpyrifos metabolites, and that the average child aged 6-11 tested exceeded the EPA’s long term acceptable level by four times! Earth … Continue reading

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Arlington TX Firefighters Face Added Cancer Risks in Responding to Fracking Emergencies

UPDATE: Since Arlington City Council has decided to put *stress on benefits to our Arlington Firefighters first to pay for their Civil Service promotions, this blog post if VERY relevant to the added risk to them in being the first … Continue reading

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Tropical Storm Bill prepared to flood drill sites & refineries – regret on failed Amendment 6 HB40 ? Urban Drilling POEM

UPDATE 6/17/2015 …the rain is pouring with no end in sight… with fracking as neighbors, this compounds our plight the gas wells at the end of our road are just waiting to likely bestow colloids formed from the dirt on the site … Continue reading

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Stickland SB 575 Fracking Nightmare 4 Women Carrying Deformed Baby

Texas and their legislative moves-*underhanded…FORCED a bill (SB 575 that would outlaw insurance covering abortion on defective babies) that initially did not pass… * The Texas Tribune reported “But after the House recessed for the evening, the Calendars Committee reconvened, … Continue reading

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Y diesel is sooooooo fracking bad = polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons / BTEX in Arlington neighborhoods

UPDATE on PAHs… “A citizen-requested study out of Oregon State University (OSU) and the University of Cincinnati has found that people living or working near active natural gas wells may be exposed to certain pollutants at higher levels than the … Continue reading

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