Chesapeake Energy: In The Pipeline---Fresh News From Dirty Ol' Town

Don Young, also known as the chief rouser of the group known as the Eastside Rabblerousers has taken to calling Fort Worth "Dirty ol' Town." I don't know if this is a reference to dirty politics, dirty gas drilling, dirty air, or what. Maybe it's a combo of all three. And more.

So, I just got email from Don Young, up to his usual Rabblerousing Duties. The subject line of the email was the same as the title of this posting, minus the Chesapeake Energy part.

The email contained several links to websites and blogs with articles about recent Chesapeake Energy and other gas driller's shenanigans and Monday night's protest in Fort Worth.

Here's a blurb from the West and Clear article about the Monday night Chesapeake Energy event at which Fort Worth protesters tried to be heard....

"The whole thing had this tense, antiseptic quality. Everyone seemed nervous and concerned about staying on message. Why? Why was everyone gripping it so tight?"

Read the entire West and Clear take on what sounded like a bizarre Chesapeake Energy event on Monday.

The July 9, 2008 edition of FW Weekly, Fort Worth's real newspaper, had an interesting article about the Chesapeake Energy/Tommy Lee Jones/Tracy Rowlett/Shale.TV controversies.

Here's the first paragraph from the FW Weekly article....

"For the past few months, North Texans have been listening to Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones spew about the wonders of the Barnett Shale natural gas drilling. Come fall, we might be hearing about similar wonders from beloved North Texas newsman Tracy Rowlett. Or, we might be hearing about the darker sides of the huge drilling boom."

Read the rest of the FW Weekly article here.

Another FW weekly blurb in their Blotch section, took on Tommy Lee Jones and his two-faced hypocrisy. Here's a Blurb from Blotch...

"...he stares at the camera and says with all the charm of a manic depressive serial killer, “Let’s get behind the Barnett Shale.” He spoke a different tune during a Parade magazine interview in 2006 when he described his high school summers spent working on oil rigs as “dirty, noisy, and dangerous.”

Read the rest of the Blotch here.

Meanwhile, the community newspaper of the community I sort of live in, Meadowbrook Today, had its own detailed take on Monday's Chesapeake Energy protests. Here's the blurb...

"Residents crowded into the Sycamore Community Center with questions for Chesapeake/Texas Midstream but the answers they received did not please all the attendees."

Click here to read all the Meadowbrook Today info about the battles with Chesapeake Energy and pipelines running through yards.

And then Wise County's wisest, and might I be a sexist pig and add, most beautiful Blogger, Texas Sharon, aka Bluedaze, blogged in her usual sharply pointed and well-aimed manner at that shooting fish in a barrel target known as Chesapeake Energy. Here's a Bluedaze blurb...

"The comments indicate that the Barnett Shale Honeymoon is over in Fort Worth. Residents are not thrilled with Tommy Lee Jones telling them to "Get Behind the Shale" or the propaganda thrown at them 24/7 from Chesapeake."

Read the rest of what Bluedaze had to say about Chesapeake Energy in her blog here.

Meanwhile, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, known to many as being the mouthpiece for Fort Worth's Ruling Junta, does not report much about Fort Worth's citizen's growing discontent over being the first urban zone in America to experiment with drilling thousands of gas holes and running hundreds of miles of gas pipes, piping odorless gas inside a city limits, under people's yards.

However, today the Star-Telegram did advise us that ozone levels are high and to stay inside if you have allergy or respiratory problems. I won't bother with a blurb or a link to the Star-Telegram.