Lawmakers Hunt for Cash to Fix Roads Hit by Drilling
An assortment of state lawmakers, county officials and energy industry leaders are working this session to fix the growing number of roads torn up as a result of increased drilling activity.
“Roads that are designed for a 20-year-life are being used in five years,” said DeWitt County Judge Daryl Fowler, who is pressing Austin to come up with a fix this session on behalf of several counties in the Eagle Ford Shale.
Most major players have yet to endorse a proposal to address the wear and tear on roads that weren't meant to handle big trucks regularly hauling heavy ...
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Kim Feil
Save that money for the clean up of those “fracking super fund to be sites”, and save it for the clean up from the "worsened global warming” storms made methane losses from drilling that the state doesn’t even measure, and save that money for those without jobs from freak storms who have no health insurance and get cancer from all the BTEX wafting off and blowing up to 200 miles away in our airsheds...and save that money for those 2,000 laid off workers from Cargill who were obviously affected by the 2,000,000 cattle that were moved out of state cause of the drought...God help us.
Sergio Jaramillo via Texas Tribune on Facebook
How long Texas continues to believe it can cover up its continued deficicts by accounting trickery, rather than embracing the failure of it's morally bankrupt policies is the question. Eventually people won't tolerate further education cuts and crumbling infrastructure to protect the high incomes of few.
R L
Why not have the overweight truck companies pay for the road repairs. Lots of ways to accomplish this. Just do it.