Weary of Fighting Natural Gas, DISH Mayor To Leave Town
Calvin Tillman, the mayor of DISH, Texas — the tiny hamlet named for the network that gives its residents free satellite TV — sits in his City Hall office, matter-of-factly telling a documentary filmmaker about how somebody’s going to accidently “blow up the town” someday.
The roughly 200 residents of DISH live atop the natural-gas-rich Barnett Shale in Denton County. And so Josh Fox, the director of HBO’s Gasland — which chronicles the dangers of natural gas drilling and related air and groundwater contamination — has come to hear Tillman's woes.
“It’s humorous — but it’s not humorous,” Tillman warns ...
Comments (4)
johncoby
I don't get it. Why hasn't someone been shot? Seriously. Back in the old days when someone stole your cattle or property you found a tree and a rope.
Now? When an industry pollutes your well water, devastates your land value, kills your cattle and poison your kids, you move?
Maybe that is what needs to be done someday. Put one of this oil giants in jail or six feet under and this stuff will stop.
EyesOfTX
Well, I suppose everyone should be happy that this glowing portrait of Mayor Tillman - who could compete with any actor or politician in races to the nearest microphone or TV camera - at least contains one paragraph that mentions the fact that hydraulic fracturing has NEVER, not one time, contaminated a drinking water reservoir in Texas, despite being in use for more than 60 years.
The link to EnergyInDepth's full exposure of Josh Fox as an inveterate liar is also appreciated. Y'all are verging on practicing real investigative journalism here. Good progress.
DavidMcFatridge
Calvin Tillman, Mayor of DISH Texas deserves a medal for his efforts to serve and protect his tiny town from BIG OIL & GAS. A true HERO in every sense of the word. The Texas Railroad Commission and Texas Commission Environmental Quality are protecting BIG OIL & GAS, these agencies are ran by political appointees from the Governor of Texas.
As far as Hydro-Fracing for GAS being safe, more than 1,000 cases of contamination have been documented:
http://www.propublica.org/article/buried-secrets-is-natural-gas-drilling-endangering-us-water-supplies-1113
To find out more about the Barnett Shale pollution go to watchdog group: http://txsharon.blogspot.com/
Daniel Day via Texas Tribune on Facebook
selling out to corporations Hu.