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March 6, 2003
Garbage by Numbers
City's recycling rate takes a dive
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November 21, 2002
Cash for Trash
The city's new recycling center is up and running, sort of
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May 16, 2002
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Why Dallas' recycling program is a $17 million joke
Blogs
June 18, 2009
Strange and Passioniate Emissions From Yesterday's EPA Cement Kiln Hearing
Alexa SchirtzingerIf this picture were at all legible, you'd see Deirdre Tinker testifying while dressed as a cement kilnAmong the first 60 commenters at yesterday's public hearing on proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations intended to reduce emissions from cement kilns, there was obvi ... More >>
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June 29, 2009
Environmentalists Plenty Steamed About Possible Nominee to Head EPA's Dallas Office
EarthFirstWhen it comes to the new regional Environmental Protection Agency head, environmental groups are tired of sending pointed letters. Tomorrow, the campaign to dethrone John Hall as the front-running potential nominee for administrator of the EPA's Region 6 (which includes Texas, Oklahoma, Ar ... More >>
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September 9, 2009
Pulling the Plug on Current Energy
View Larger MapThere's space for lease on Knox Street -- nice location too, right between the Apple store and Wild About Harry's. Until, oh, today, of course, that was the Current Energy location. But according to a press release we received this afternoon, Joe Harberg's done pulled the plug on "the ... More >>
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February 4, 2010
Clean-Air Fund to Stop Funding Natural Gas Projects Till Industry Cleans Up Its Act
Click to expand this map provided last week by the Texas Commission on Environmental QualityWay back in '97, and again last June, we told you the story of Sue Pope -- a Midlothian rancher who became legendary for taking on pollution-spewing TXI -- and the genesis of the fund named in her honor, w ... More >>
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August 31, 2010
Judge Gives City the Gas to Put CNG-Powered Taxis at the Front of the Line at Love Field
Back in March, you may recall, cab drivers at Love Field were none too pleased with the city council's decision to give compressed natural gas-powered taxis front-o'-the-line privileges at the airport. A month later, the Association of Taxicab Operators went to federal court to block the city fro ... More >>
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September 14, 2010
Downwinders at Risk Launches First-Ever TV Campaign Against TXI, TCEQ and Rick Perry
Two months ago, TXI made a big deal out of shutting down four wet-process cement kilns in Midlothian -- a move hailed by Jim Schermbeck, head of Dallas-based Downwinders at Risk, as "the culmination of a 21-year fight that began in 1989 by a group of residents who found that burning hazardous waste ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
Following Report on the Fracking Dangers of Drilling, Hunt Explains Need for Task Force
How fracking works, as explained in the Oscar-nominated documentary GaslandOver the weekend, local gas-drilling opponents forwarded to media members Ian Urbina's piece in Sunday's New York Times about the heretofore unknown dangers posed by hydraulic fracturing, which involves injecting water, sa ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Toxic Avenger: In the War Between the Feds and Texas, EPA Chief Al Armendariz has Science on His Side. Is That Enough?
How fracking works, as explained in the Oscar-nominated documentary GaslandOver the weekend, local gas-drilling opponents forwarded to media members Ian Urbina's piece in Sunday's New York Times about the heretofore unknown dangers posed by hydraulic fracturing, which involves injecting water, sa ... More >>
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March 16, 2011
Mayor Caraway Says He's Got That Whole Gas Drilling Task Force Thing Covered
A few weeks ago, as you'll no doubt recall, Angela Hunt called for the formation of a gas drilling task force that would consist of no fewer than 10 people, among them experts well versed in the subject of fracking, neighborhood residents impacted by XTO Energy's requests to drill near Hensley Fi ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
Failure Is an Option We Should Consider
Those images of the out-of-control nuclear plants in Japan are hard-wired to our own situation in Dallas. Their tragedy is our challenge. The question is whether we see the wire in time. City council member Angela Hunt has succeeded in forcing Mayor Dwaine Caraway to put the issue of natural ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
Maybe City Council Should Have Asked Some Questions Before Taking Drillers' Money.
Those images of the out-of-control nuclear plants in Japan are hard-wired to our own situation in Dallas. Their tragedy is our challenge. The question is whether we see the wire in time. City council member Angela Hunt has succeeded in forcing Mayor Dwaine Caraway to put the issue of natural ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
"Regionalism" Just Means Dallas is Going to Get Drilled When It Comes to Fracking
So-called regionalism is a rip-off, a scam and a hoax designed to neuter cities and sell them down the river to the damned suburbs. A few weeks from now the Dallas City Council will take up the issue of fracking, the kind of natural gas drilling in which drillers pump millions of gallons of ... More >>
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April 4, 2011
Fracking: What We Don't Know Could Kill a Goat. Or Give 'Em One Hell of a Nosebleed.
Maybe the biggest problem with the fracking issue is that it involves the deadly, mind-numbing and sleep-inducing phrase "parts per billion." Otherwise I might have cracked the case long ago. Fracking is deep-well drilling for natural gas in which drillers inject water and chemicals into a l ... More >>
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April 8, 2011
How Texas Got Fracked Over By Gas Drillers
We added insult to injury a long time ago in this whole business of fracking in Dallas -- you know, the kind of natural gas drilling where they blow up underground rocks in a geological formation called the Barnett Shale, releasing trapped gas. Now, if you don't mind, I need to add injury to insu ... More >>
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April 14, 2011
Fracking is Dirtier Than Coal Mining, Claims Study That T. Boone Should Probably Read
T. Boone Pickens: Fracking's best friend.The Pickens Plan -- Dallas oilman T. Boone Pickens's plan to equip every American with his very own riding natural-gas fracker -- is enjoying a wave of consensus not seen since The Simple Life got canceled. Pickens's latest pitch for an OPEC-free Ame ... More >>
News
April 28, 2011
Raymond Crawford, Actual Citizen, Fought the City on Fracking -- and Won
When Dallas' drilling rules get tougher, you'll have a professional needlepointer to thank.
Blogs
May 4, 2011
Kunkle and Rawlings Say That As Mayor, They'd Push for Gas Drilling Moratorium
Photos by Patrick MichelsDistrict 3 City Council candidates Dave Neumann and Scott Griggs joined all four mayoral candidates in a forum with Mountain Creek neighbors last night at Harmony School of Nature and Athletics.At a campaign forum in far western Oak Cliff's Mountain Creek neighborhood last n ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Fracking Chemical Disclosure Bill Blasts Through Texas House, Enviros Unimpressed
From the rapidly spreading "Fracking Song" from ProPublica and Studio 20 NYU.In these final days of the 82nd Texas Legislature, lawmakers in Austin are throwing support behind Eastlake Rep. Jim Keffer's bill that'd require drillers to report the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing at each of t ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
UT Researcher Leading Fracking Study: "We're Gonna Look at Every Claim We Can Find."
UT-Austin geology professor Chip GroatA week ago today, as you may recall, the University of Texas at Austin's Energy Institute announced they'd be joining the growing ranks of universities with major studies of hydraulic fracturing, with a $300,000, nine-month project of their own. Today, thank ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
UT-Arlington Researchers Plan Study On Gas Drilling Operations' Affect on Water Quality
Last month, we mentioned a far-reaching University of Texas at Austin study of complaints about gas drilling operations that's just now getting underway. Meant to connect the dots between air, soil and water quality complaints from the Barnett to the Marcellus Shale, the nine-month project from t ... More >>
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June 21, 2011
Five Months After City Extended XTO's Gas Drilling Lease, Trinity East to Get Same Deal
From the city council's February 2008 briefing on gas drilling within city limitsFirst, a programming note: Plans are to liveblog, yet again, today's 2 p.m. meeting of the council's Ad Hoc Gas Drilling Task Force Nominating Committee, if only because last week's was such a humdinger as the counci ... More >>
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June 22, 2011
Gas Drilling Committee Trims List of Task Force Applicants to Nine Slated For Council Vote
Photo by Leslie MinoraLinda Koop, seated next to outgoing council member Dave Neumann, chaired yesterday's meeting.After postponing last Thursday's meeting so council members could ride in the Dallas Mavericks' parade through downtown, the city council's Ad Hoc Gas Drilling Task Force Nominating ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
Fire In the Well: Weatherford Couple Sues Range Over Nearby Gas Drilling
Maybe you've seen the ads: On Wednesday we're co-sponsoring a special screening of Gasland at the Texas Theatre, which isn't the only movie we're screening next week. More about that later. But Josh Fox's Oscar-nominated film, as you probably know, features that now-infamous scene of a Colorado m ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
EPA to Study Whether Hydraulic Fracturing Taints Drinking Water in North Texas
Photo by Patrick MichelsAt the EPA's public hearing in Arlington in August of last yearAll at once the in-box filled up with releases from the Environmental Protection Agency, both the national HQ and the regional offices. Long story short: After a series of public hearings held last year, includ ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
A Few Council Members Take in Gasland, But Not Before Mayor Mike Makes a Promise to City
Photos by Leslie MinoraAngela Hunt was asked whether it's likely Dallas will be sued by gas drillers awaiting their SUPs.Mayor Mike Rawlings took the mic before last night's Observer co-sponsored Gasland screening and told the audience of council members, activists and concerned locals, "I wi ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
City's Gas Drilling Task Force Makes Its Official Bow With Vow to Protect Citizens of Dallas
Photos by Leslie MinoraLois Finkelman and task force member David Sterling at today's introductory meetingToday's first meeting of the city's gas drilling task force meeting played out like the pilot episode of a new TV series: It laid out the basic plot line without giving away too much. Which i ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
Dallas Gas Drilling Task Force's Field Trip Was Practical, Educational and Quite Hot
Photos by Taryn WalkerThe crowd at yesterday's Arlington trip sizes up an actively drilling Chesapeake site.Tuesday, Dallas gas drilling task force members -- and city council members Angela Hunt, Linda Koop and, but of course, Sheffie Kadane -- poured out of two white 15-passenger vans and into the ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Dallas's Gas Drilling Task Force Navigates, Sort Of, the Labyrinth of Fracking Regulations
Photo by Leslie MinoraTask force chair Lois Finkelman and members Terry Welch and Cherelle Blazer mull over fracking regulations at yesterday's meeting.The city's gas drilling task force slurped down a hearty helping of alphabet soup last night, with visits from representatives of the EPA (En ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
City's Gas Drilling Task Force Received a Public Education at Last Night's Hearing
Photos by Leslie MinoraJeffrey Jacoby, the Program Director of the Texas Campaign for the Environment, gave the task force a passionate three minutes, emphasizing their responsibility to protect Dallas citizens.In the end, council members Delia Jasso, Dwaine Caraway and Scott Griggs skipped M ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Gas Drilling Task Force Absorbs More Info as It Inches Closer to Making Reg Recommendations
Photo by Leslie MinoraReal estate expert, Dan Wright, talks to the task force about drilling's effect (or lack thereof) on property values.Yesterday afternoon, the city's gas drilling task force heard presentations (slideshows here) from three experts who explained the impact of drilling on n ... More >>
News
September 15, 2011
Sucking Up Water and Sand in the Quest for Natural Gas
For folks in the sandy hills northwest of Dallas, it's a devil's bargain for gas, water and jobs.
Blogs
September 21, 2011
After Talking Water Supply, Cause of Quakes, Drilling Task Force Gets Down to Business
Photo by Leslie MinoraPhilip Dellinger, Regional Ground Water/Underground Injection Control Chief for the EPA, presents a fracking overview.Water, water, everywhere -- more than ample supply to frack, according to Jody Puckett, the director of Dallas Water Utilities, who spoke at yesterday's ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Hey, EPA, What Does a Little Cancer Matter When We Have Drilling to Do?
I had a big light-bulb moment this morning while reading both daily newspapers. We just price things wrong. We need to stop thinking of clean air in terms of dollars and cents and start quantifying it in our heads by cancer cases. Governor Rick Perry keeps telling us that EPA clean air rules ... More >>
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October 5, 2011
Citizens Form Unofficial Drilling Task Force, Present Recommendations to City Council
Via.The Dallas gas drilling task force sees many of the same faces at each meeting: a small and dedicated group of Dallas residents who show up every Tuesday afternoon and, as it turns out, have formed an unofficial task force with the same goal as the city's official entity -- making drillin ... More >>
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October 12, 2011
What the Frack: Task Force Isn't Done, But City Moves Closer to Issuing First Drilling Permit
Click to enlarge this map from the city's April gas drilling ordinance presentationXTO and Trinity East, two of the companies that have paid the city big money and signed leases to drill for gas within the city limits, have agreed to wait 30 months while the city rewrites its gas drilling ord ... More >>
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October 19, 2011
After Months of Debate, Southlake Keeps 1,000-Foot Setbacks From Gas Wells to Homes
The Southlake City Council Hall, once packed from floor to gallery with residents for whom gas drilling in town was either a looming menace or a windfall, had only a smattering of attendees a little after 11 last night. Many had already wearied of the debate, which had raged since February an ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
While Faraway Lenders Grapple with Fracking, a Word From Local Appraiser in the Trenches
Photo by Taryn WalkerA rig in ArlingtonThe New York Times ran an interesting story Thursday on the growing reluctance of banks to grant mortgages to owners of properties that have been leased for gas drilling in the northeast. Landowners often aren't giving banks a heads up before signing on ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
There's Another Gas Drilling Public Hearing Tomorrow. So Where Is City Heading, Anyway?
Photo by Taryn WalkerDrill, maybe, drill.As chair of the city's gas drilling task force, Lois Finkelman has a pretty tough job, directing task force meetings, guiding discussions, fielding calls and emails from concerned citizens. (Did we mentioned she doesn't get paid? Strictly voluntary.). ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
"Frack is Whack" and Other Highlights From Gas Drilling Task Force's Public Hearing
Photos by Leslie MinoraAnti-drilling activists show their support for one of the public speakers.At last night's Gas Drilling Task Force public hearing at Dallas City, citizens' outcries ranged from polite thank-yous to pleas for tighter restrictions all the way to full-on verbal assaults tha ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
University of Texas Fracking Study: No Evidence That It Contaminates Groundwater
The University of Texas released the preliminary results today of that comprehensive study on the controversial natural gas producing process known as hydraulic fracturing (or fracking), drawing no link between it and claims of groundwater contamination. "While there have been casing/cement ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Local Anti-Gas Drilling Activist Catches Execs Pushing PSYOP to Deal With "Insurgency"
Last week, during an oil-and-gas drilling confab at the Hyatt Regency in Houston, execs turned their attention to a very touchy subject: how to get folks decidedly against gas drilling on their side. At which point, according to audio first obtained by CNBC earlier this week, gas-drilling spo ... More >>
News
November 24, 2011
Fear and Fracking in Southlake
In one of America's wealthiest suburbs, an unlikely band of drilling opponents helped drive away the world's biggest energy companies. Did they save the town or ruin it?
Blogs
November 30, 2011
Gas Drilling Task Force Mulls Over Possibility of Injection Wells For Frack Water Disposal
Via.Injection wells, like most aspects of gas drilling, elicit conflicting opinions, contradictory data and the frequent, familiar demand: "Not in my backyard!". While the wells used for the disposal of produced fracking water are not currently allowed within Dallas city limits, the issue pro ... More >>
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December 8, 2011
EPA Report Ties Fracking To Groundwater Contamination in Wyoming. But What Does That Mean For Texas?
Photo by Taryn Walker A gas well in ArlingtonFor folks in Dallas, where the council-appointed gas drilling task force is running to stand still, or in Southlake, the subject of a recent cover story on towns grappling with urban drilling, this EPA report released today tying fracking to ground ... More >>
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December 30, 2011
After Years of Foreclosures and Frustration, North Oak Cliff Apartments Back on Track
Good, Fulton & Farrell's renderings for the Alta West Davis complexAs conceptual renderings are my kryptonite, here's one that landed in the inbox late yesterday -- a look at what Wood Partners says it will build on that vacant lot at 1836 W. Davis, not so long ago the site of the Cliffwood A ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
Shippin' Shale, or: What's That You Say About Our Energy Independence?
The days of lease-bearing landmen making it rain on the Barnett Shale are over. The industry became so proficient at fracturing the rock thousands of feet beneath the surface and extracting the gas trapped within that they glutted the market. Gas prices took a swan dive and have stagnated eve ... More >>
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February 4, 2012
Rockwall's Rep. Ralph Hall Blasts EPA and Science at Fracking Hearing
Congressman Ralph Hall, the Republican from RockwallAllow us to re-introduce you to the octogenarian congressman who's currently perched atop the catbird seat in the oversight hearings every fracker in America is watching with bated breath. His name is Ralph Hall. He's the chairman of the Hou ... More >>
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