An Aggie (Aggette) who got lost? :)
Posted on 09/12/2014 1:53:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Land-use conflicts between Barnett Shale wells and homes continues to pose a “major impediment” to Denton’s future quality of life and economic development, gas well administrator Darren Groth told the City Council Tuesday.
The Council agreed, voting unanimously Tuesday to approve a moratorium on gas wells applications and permits through Jan. 20.
This moratorium is separate from the Nov. 4 referendum to ban hydraulic fracking in the city of Denton, a first for Texas.
The four-and-a-half-month extension gives city staff time to iron out problems with the city ordinance to prevent a repeat of what happened in the Vintage neighborhood last year. The city initially asked for a 45-day extension but the Council agreed to extend it to 134 days.
“I don’t think 45 days is enough time to make these changes,” Groth said.
Eagle Ridge Energy drilled several Barnett Shale wells last year off Vintage Boulevard in close proximity to several neighborhoods. The wells were drilled and later fracked less than 300 feet from homes because the sites had old oil wells with permits that were granted in perpetuity before the houses were built.
Residents quickly discovered that the city’s ordinance, which requires a 1,200-foot buffer from homes, was powerless to protect them against grandfathered well sites. That’s what spawned the petition drive, which put the fracking ban on the Nov. 4 ballot.
The oil and gas industry has fought back against the fracking ban, enlisting the help of economist Ray Perryman, who said the fracking ban would cost Denton’s economy $251.4 million over 10 years.
Perryman is expected to release updated economic figures for the entire Barnett Shale development.
Denton’s proposed fracking ban would prohibit drillers from using the fracking process, where millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand are injected into shale formations to break up the shale and release oil and gas.
The process is critical for drillers to be able to produce natural gas out of the Barnett Shale.
Groth said the pipelines used to transport the natural gas away from drill sites also pose a challenge for the city of Denton. The city needs better mapping of these pipelines so they don’t conflict with future development, he said.
When did the commies get control of Denton? Did a bunch of New Yorkers and Californians move in because of the plentiful jobs? I’ve always been wary of college towns since they are liberal. It’s a shame since Denton used to a nice place not long ago — Christian, Conservative and pro-business. I hope this is arrested before it becomes another hellhole like Austin.
It’s the professors and out-of-state (and out-of-country) students. Heard a good one the other day. What do you call an attractive girl on the TWU campus?
An Aggie (Aggette) who got lost? :)
Several events: Golden Triangle Mall; adding the second high school; all the yuppies/interlopers moving into Argyle, Corinth, and Lake Dallas; people getting tired of living in Lewisville; just some off the top.
Or “visitor” as the punchline goes.
University of North Texas AND Texas Women’s University. . .that explains the leftist influence.
They both need to be defunded since neither embraces the core Texas values of pro-God, pro-life and pro-gun. Then, a good school such as Hillsdale, Liberty or Bob Jones needs to make them branch campuses. Indoctrination centers for communism have no place in the Great State of Texas.
If oil-gas production/manufacturing ever got started in Denton, then the "serfs" wouldn't be under the thumb of a bunch of LGBT socialist professors.
Thank you for a very clear, logical explanation. It all makes perfect sense. Universities are a scourge on a community and Denton is just a smaller Austin "thanks" to UNT and TWU.
The exception to that rule, of course, are those universities such as Liberty, Hillsdale, Bob Jones and Harding (selfish plug, see my profile page) that are pro-God, pro-life, pro-gun, pro-free enterprise and anti-sodomy. In other words, Conservative. Even once good Texas A&M is moving toward being another leftist indoctrination center.
No wonder places like Boston, San Francisco and Seattle are such socialist hellholes. They've got scores of marxist training facilities in their region (Harvard, MIT, UCB, Stanford, UW and so on).
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