Texas House approves gutting municipal fracking bans
Source: Reuters
The Texas House overwhelmingly approved a bill on Friday that would give the state the exclusive right to regulate the oil and gas industry, and gut the power of municipalities to pass anti-fracking rules.
In Texas, the top U.S. crude producer and the birthplace of fracking, the bill also needs to be passed by the state's Senate and signed by the governor before it becomes law.
State lawmakers have been under pressure to halt an incipient anti-fracking movement since November, when voters in the town of Denton voted to outlaw the oil and gas extraction technique behind the U.S. energy boom.
In fracking, a mixture of pressurized water, sand and chemicals is used to unlock oil and natural gas from rock. Operators say it is safe, but many environmental groups oppose the practice - calling it wasteful, polluting, dirty and noisy.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/17/us-shale-texas-fracking-idUSKBN0N829A20150417
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The citizens of this state should bring a glass / jar of that water to the right wing legislature and the right wing governor and have them drink the stuff---end of story.
Now they have discovered that when you do this cracking in the ground the radon trapped in the ground escape's it is dangerous.
And I guess that they don't think they don't need water to live----what planet do they live on---the tin foil hat planet.
I did for a great number of years, and since moving away from the swamp, that's how I spell it too
description of them - now Texass...suck it up - you elected THEM!
to become law.
Done. 