AltWeeklies Wire
Home to Roostnew
In a landmark decision, drillers are ordered to pay for damages to homeowners.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
05-06-2014 |
Environment
Tags: Aruba Petroleum, Oil Drilling
Ranch Tradition: Hanging Onnew
Texas cattle raisers aren’t giving up — but neither is the drought.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jeff Prince |
03-13-2013 |
Environment
Locking Up Water Rightsnew
In Texas and around the world, corporations are increasingly competing for rights to our most precious liquid asset.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jeff Prince and Eric Griffey |
02-08-2013 |
Environment
Tags: Corporate Water
Drawing a Line in the (Tar) Sandnew
Protests in Texas delay the Keystone pipeline while opposition to it grows.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
10-17-2012 |
Environment
Texas Shale Keeps Bubblingnew
The latest study of gas drilling's effects on air quality has convinced almost no one.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
08-20-2010 |
Environment
Downwinders on the Risenew
They financed it with baked goods and garage sales, but a North Texas environmental group has pursued its clean-air crusade for more than 20 years -- and won some major victories.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
08-20-2010 |
Environment
Tags: Jim Schermbeck
Unmasking the Pollutersnew
MacArthur "Genius" award winner Wilma Subra could be making great money in industry. Instead, she's using her scientific skills to work for threatened communities.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Wendy Lyons Sunshine |
08-02-2010 |
Environment
Tags: Environment, Wilma Subra
Gas Drilling Threatens Town's Water Supplynew
The little town of DISH, Texas has fought the environmental depredations of the gas drilling industry harder than any other place in Texas. Now there's a new front: well water contamination.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jason Joyce |
06-09-2010 |
Environment
Coming Soon to a Field Near Younew
Chevron has subpoenaed 600 hours of outtakes from the makers of the documentary Crude, as part of their defense against a major eco-lawsuit brought by the residents of a remote area of Ecuador. Anybody in a gas- or oil-drilling area should be paying attention.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Fort Worth Weekly Staff |
05-26-2010 |
Environment
Tags: Chevron
Pandora's Wells: Do You Know What's Going Down That Disposal Well Near You?new
n 2006, with drillers poking gas wells into the Barnett Shale beneath Fort Worth as fast as they could get mineral leases signed, Fort Worth granted a permit for the first well in this city of another kind, forcing back underground millions of gallons of toxic, salty wastewater.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Gayle Reaves |
03-19-2010 |
Environment
Hot in the Neighborhoodnew
Global warming comes to a garden, a stream, a statehouse near you.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Gayle Reaves |
02-01-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
