How Texas Got Fracked Over By Gas Drillers

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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 insult to injury: The state is letting the frackers skate out of paying their taxes.

The original injury here is the air and groundwater pollution associated with so-called injection wells in this part of Texas. Since they started doing it in Fort Worth, air pollution there has doubled. The original insult was when the Texas Railroad Commission, the weirdo 19th-century government body in charge of regulating this stuff, decided not to regulate it.

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http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2011/04/how_texas_got_fracked_over_by.php