[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT, ENERGY: Hensley Field (TX) gas drilling

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dallas Plan Commission defers decision on gas well in Oak Cliff


By ROY APPLETON
Dallas Morning News
September 17, 2010

Alarms have sounded. Now what about those wells?

That will be a question before the Dallas Plan Commission Oct. 21, when 
it again addresses a request to drill what would be the city's first 
natural gas well.

XTO Energy is seeking a specific-use permit to drill and produce gas 
from ultimately 12 wells at a four-acre site it leases from the city in 
far west Oak Cliff.

...

Army Col. Jeff Long and Lt. Col. Jim Hardy told commissioners they don't 
oppose drilling, just this project at Hensley Field, the former Dallas 
Naval Air Station.

Their Texas Army National Guard detachment trains pilots of the 
Singapore Air Force near the proposed drilling site. The protrusion of 
rigs is a flight safety concern, they said. Earlier, Long said bright 
lights at the site would impede training with night-vision goggles.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/091710dnmetdrill.10181ad59.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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