Showing posts with label Dr. Al Armendariz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dr. Al Armendariz. Show all posts

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Depressing News From My Therapist While The Fosdic Ducks Possibly Caucus About Tonight's NCTCA Meeting

I had insomnia night before last. Last night I slept some, but got up early. Early morning I tried the shock therapy of an icy pool dip, hoping it'd break me out of my dark gray depression.

It did not work. I think I'm entering Howard Hughes territory. I clip my fingernails, but my hair has grown long and I don't remember when last I scraped a razor across my face.

In other words. I'm a mess.

My therapist, Dr. L.C., instead of her usual prescription that I exit my depressing abode and do something aerobic outdoors, sent me a link to a video.

Just when I think the bad stuff bad people do to good people, here in Texas. And elsewhere. Can't get worse. Something comes along and adds more depressing information to my overload.

After viewing that video, without my therapist's prescription to do so, I took off out of here, anyway, seeking some sort of peace among the Fosducks at Fosdick Lake in Oakland Lake Park.

It was not all that warm today, here in Fort Worth, but the ducks were in march on land mode, more than huddle in the water, keeping warm mode. There seemed to be a lot of quacking among the ducks, as if they were having a very serious discussion.

There is a meeting of the North Central Texas Communities Alliance (NCTCA) taking place in a couple hours at the Hotel Trinity Inn Suites on the south side of I-30 at Beach Street. Dr. Al Armendariz, the new Regional Administrator for the EPA Region 6, will be there and speaking.

A person, or two, has asked if I'm going to be there.

Well, like I said, I'm a mess, not really, currently, fit for a meeting with coffee, networking and news interviews.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Downwinders At Risk Throwing A Big Arlington Party For Dr. Al Armendariz

You are looking at Dr. Al Armendariz. To the surprise and delight of a lot of people he was appointed EPA Regional 6 Administrator.

Downwinders at Risk is throwing a party to celebrate the new EPA Administrator, appointed to a post that most likely, previously, would have gone to someone in cahoots with the polluters and environment damagers.

The Downwinders Party takes place Thursday, December 10 from 7:30pm til 9pm in The Private Room at J. Gilligan's Bar & Grill at 400 E. Abram in Arlington.

Remarks by Dr. Armenadariz at 8:15

A cash bar and snacks


Friday, November 6, 2009

High Noon In Texas With Dr. Al Armendariz Taking On The Polluters

Good incoming from Don Young regarding yesterday's announcement that Dr. Al Armendariz has been appointed EPA Region 6 Administrator. It was Dr. Al Armendariz who got a lot of people's attention by documenting the extent to which the Barnett Shale natural gas drillers are polluting the air of North Texas.



Only on rare occasions do those of us crazy enough to fight back against Big Gas get any good news.

Today was a gusher!

Dr. Al Armendariz, a longtime clean air advocate and harsh critic of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has been appointed EPA Region 6 Administrator. Yes, you read that right.

Dr. Al may be the only man who can clean up the Dirty Ol' Towns in this Dirty Ol' State in Dirty Ol' Region 6. Think, High Noon, the 1952 movie starring, Gary Cooper. The synopsis:

"A town Marshall faces a deadly enemy but finds his own town refuses to help him."

Only this time, the bad guys are quaking in their boots and the Marshall has a well trained posse that is ready to ride. Underhanded, double-dealing Barnett Shale gas drillers and mayors are in the sights of the new Marshall and he's loaded for bear.

Take heed you heathen polluters. There's a new Marshall in town.

DY

Monday, May 11, 2009

An Invitation from the Arlington Conservation Council

Air Emissions from
Oil and Gas

Development in the
Barnett Shale & the Rest of Texas

Dr. Al Armendariz

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
7 pm
West Police Station
2060 W. Green Oaks Blvd.
Arlington, Texas

Everyone is invited to attend this free lecture. Dr. Armendariz is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and has written extensively on air quality issues related to industrial activity and gas drilling.

Presented by the Arlington Conservation Council and Green Arlington Foundation