Cowboys, Baseball and Gas Drilling ~ Yee Haw!

Welcome to Arlington, Texas.

Truman Drilling Site 

(2 Leaseholds converging  ~Truman and Bobcat ~ totaling 1,020 acres with plans for 14 shale gas wells)

You can certainly find more information about ALL the drilling operations in Arlington, TX by clicking here and visiting Chesapeake's Arlington Neighborhood Center.  It's very user-friendly. We count 35 Chesapeake drilling sites inside the Arlington, TX city limits. Beautiful!



Based on what we've learned, and what we know about shale gas, the FRAC Pond you see in the picture (the pond in the lower left that's holding the brownish-colored water)  ~ this FRAC Pond and the accompanying drilling operations will be a fixture in the core of the Arlington, TX downtown business sector for many years to come.  [Are you reading this Dallas?]

So, bring out the Welcome Wagon.

The Truman has landed!  AMEN.

**Update:  Here's some more detail.  Just in case you aren't sure what you are seeing. We understand how it's hard to know with all of this. It's a very special and unique new neighbor.

Security?

Howell Pad Site in West Central Grand Prairie, TX (Near Abrams and Great Southwest Parkway)

Chesapeake

FRAC Pond Gate (Below) Open and Falling Over

It's Clearly Broken and in Violation of the Ordinance.

Sunday Late Afternoon, June 26, 2011

20 Wells Permitted from this (Urban) Pad Site  A Few Hundred Feet from Homes, Businesses, People and Pets.We pray people there will call the TCEQ if they smell strange odors from any of the drilling and fracking. (1-888-777-3186) 

Home for the Holidays

Happy Thanksgiving Y'All!

 Westchester Valley Neighborhood, Grand Prairie, TX November 2010

Yes.  It's a "No Drilling" Sign in the front yard.  How 'bout that? You see, these Westchester homeowners actually "own" the minerals beneath their homes, but neither of these homeowners agreed to lease their minerals.  Still, they have a 3.5 million gallon FRAC Pond 4 yards from their back fences and a Pad Site 537 feet from their back yards. The drill has been grinding and screeching now for 3 weeks while toxic fumes have been spewing out into the once clean air.  All of this just so happens to sit across the street from a segment of the Joe Pool Lake Dam! 



 

Corn Valley Pad Site, 210 W. Camp Wisdom Road Grand Prairie, TX, November 2010

On this day of Thanksgiving, we are reminded that shale gas drilling is  what Chesapeake's CEO Aubrey McClendon really wants for America. It's what the City of Grand Prairie wants for America. It's what Boone Pickens really, really wants for America. But at what price do we continue along this course? 

Corn Valley Rig & FRAC Pond, Westchester Valley

Grand Prairie, TX, November 2010

We count our blessings today.  And pray for all of our neighbors across the region who are now suffering because of this shale gas drilling campaign.  Amen.

 Gigantic Pipes, 3rd Street, Grand Prairie, TX, October/November 2010

Chesapeake's Big Boy

He's BIG. He absolutely adores his Frac Pond.

He's bitten everybody twice.

He Just Wants to be Our Neighbor.

The Closest Residential Frac Pond in the Barnett Shale

So, Chesapeake must be mighty proud of their work-in-progress handiwork rammed up against our beautiful neighborhood. But Oops! Not only did the City of Grand Prairie fail to tell anyone about this lovely "pond," but they forgot to officially notify the Westchester Association of Homeowners (2,295 homes) about this High Impact Gas Well Permit now known as the Corn Valley Pad Site.



According to the Grand Prairie Gas Drilling Ordinance, it's a requirement.

Page 11



Sec. 13-507. High impact gas well permit.



(a) High impact gas well permit shall be required if the proposed well is to be located within six hundred (600) feet of a protected use for which a building permit has been issued on the date the application for a permit is filed. Notice shall be sent to all registered neighborhood associations within one-half (1/2) mile of the proposed drill site. [emphasis added.]

What? No mention of how close all other gas drilling pad site activities may be? And no mention of Frac Ponds?? Oops! Again. What was our City thinking??



(And why does the Grand Prairie Gas Drilling Ordinance refer only to a "well," when in fact, most of these drilling operations involve "multiple wells," on Pad Sites?)



Alright. So, if you are confused and don't have any idea what any of this means, Join the Club!! It's free.



In the meantime, we would like to suggest naming this monstrosity the "Chesapeake Frac Bowl." It's not exactly like the Grand Prairie Football Stadium in North Grand Prairie known far and wide as the "Gopher Bowl," and we think gophers and other rodents might eventually drown in it, but hey, a bowl's a bowl. And this one is HUGE!! Yay, Team!





Day 1 ~ August 25, 2010







Day 2 ~ August 26, 2010





Still Day 2. Wow. That Didn't Take Long.