President Obama to embrace Pickens plan, push for natural gas vehicle incentives

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will effectively join the Pickens army Wednesday when he calls for switching more U.S. vehicles to natural gas — and off oil.

Obama has been inching toward support for Dallas investor T. Boone Pickens’ proposal to convert the country’s heavy-duty trucks to run on natural

Dave Michaels reports: http://dallasne.ws/foehTP

Texas may have utilities replace steel gas lines to prevent explosions

Elizabeth Souder reports:
Natural gas utilities might have to dig up neighborhoods across Texas to replace hundreds of thousands of steel service lines to prevent explosions.

Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams will propose today that the commission require Atmos Energy and other utilities to replace the lines, which bring natural gas from pipelines under neighborhood streets to homes. Texas has at least 525,000 steel lines, maybe a million, he said.
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Dish mayor's outcry on gas drilling brings big buzz to tiny town

Wendy Hundley reports:

As mayor of Dish, Calvin Tillman presides over a two-square-mile patch of Denton County flatland and about 180 residents. But this small-town mayor has become a central figure in the national debate over gas drilling.
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Texas gubernatorial candidate White on board of firm investigated by Congress as possible polluter

The Houston Chronicle reports:

AUSTIN – Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill White earned more than $2.6 million serving on the board of a gas well servicing company that now is part of a congressional investigation into possible groundwater contamination.

The practice of 'fracking,' or hydraulic fracturing, is industry-wide, and is being closely scrutinized: http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/

startling footage from the documentary GASLAND here:




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