Rich With Natural Gas, State Eyes More Oversight
KENEDY — At a packed meeting here one evening last week, natural gas industry boosters told long tables of ranchers and townspeople about anticipated jobs and economic opportunities. Outside, along lonely country roads near town, lights from drilling equipment glittered in the dark night.
Kenedy sits in the heart of the Eagle Ford Shale, one of the largest and most recently discovered oil and gas fields in the state. The first gas well was drilled just three years ago, and the yields of Eagle Ford are part of the reason why production of natural gas in Texas — the leading gas-drilling state ...
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Tim McClure via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It's all one big shale, um, shell game.
Sonora Hartley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Land owners welcome the drillers because of the money they can get. Asked if they aren't concerned that their water might be poisoned and everyone of them will say that with enough money they can move to a part of the country that has good water. They don't care about their neighbors. The complainers are landowners who don't have gas wells on their land. Being able to pass on a farm or ranch that has been in the family for generations takes a back seat to money.