TCEQ DFW Clean Air Public Meeting

Please come to the TCEQ meeting Thursday night – and help spread the word.
Let the TCEQ know that we’re paying attention and we expect them to get tough on industry!

TCEQ DFW Clean Air Public Meeting

Date: Thursday, June 24, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Arlington City Hall Chambers (same place as the ozone hearing in March)
Street: 101 W. Abram Street
City/Town: Arlington, TX

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Also: Please join us at the pre-meeting meetup at Fuzzy’s Tacos; info below.

Description
This is the kick-off meeting to the new TCEQ Clean Air SIP process and the first State meeting on DFW smog in four years! The "Eight-Hour Ozone State Implementation Plan Revision Stakeholder Group for the Dallas-Fort Worth Area" is required by the TCEQ since DFW does not currently meet federal EPA ozone standards. TCEQ's goal is "to discuss the development of the DFW Eight-Hour Ozone SIP revision and to hear the public's ideas on potential control strategies for the area." Our reply is simple: Get as Tough on Industry as you’ve been on my Car!The meeting is divided into two parts:

1. TCEQ Presentation

2. Audience Q&A/Discussion

We need a strong showing of clean air supporters similar to the new EPA proposed ozone standard hearing we organized back in March. As the temps and ozone alert days continue to increase in the DFW area, let's ensure TCEQ knows we're paying attention and remind them that they have the authority to place the same pollution and emissions standards on the oil, gas and coal industries (which are readily available) as are placed on the auto industry/our vehicles.

There's a pre-meeting meet up at Fuzzy's Taco Shop (510 East Abram St, 3 blks from City Hall) at 6 pm for anyone interested. Get your tacos and beer buzz on to get you in the mood!

For specific talking points and a distributable flyer (PDF): http://youngsierrans.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/tceq-dfw-clean-air-plan-public-meeting/

More info on TCEQ's DFW Public Meeting: http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/implementation/air/sip/dfw_stakeholder_2.html

Please help spread the word about this important meeting. We're seeking volunteers to create signage/messaging and speakers ready to "ask questions" during the Q&A section of the hearing. Expectations are high for an entertaining evening with a 70% chance for shenanigans.

For questions, volunteer or carpool, please contact: http://www.dfwsip@gmail.com/ or 972-230-3185.

This notice originated with The North Texas Clean Air Task Force (Downwinders at Risk - League of Women Voters - Environmental Defense Fund - North Central Texas Communities Alliance - Public Citizen - Sierra Club - Texas Oil and Gas Accountability Project).

NCTCA Welcomes Wilma Supra to speak on the health impacts of our air quality! June 3rd.

This is a must attend event. Wilma Subra has been working toward environmental health and safety of all citizens for many years. Wilma Subra has been a board member of EARTHWORK's Oil and Gas Accountability Project since 2005 and she is a member of the Texas OGAP Steering Committee. Wilma has traveled to the Barnett Shale area several times assisting Texas OGAP and community's effected by Barnett Shale drilling.

Ms. Subra will be featured in Dr. Sanjay Gupta's Toxic America report to air on CNN in the next few weeks.

This is your opportunity to come and hear Wilma speak on a concern of all of us living on the Barnett Shale. Air Quality.

Below is the information from the NCTCA (North Central Texas Community Alliance) about the event.

General Meeting Information:

When: Thursday: June 3, 2010
6:30 pm - Doors Open - Coffee & Networking
7:00 - 8:45 pm - Meeting Starts

Where: TRINITY HOTEL - INN SUITES
Beach Street and IH30
Fort Worth, Texas

FEATURED SPEAKER: Wilma Subra

Topic : AIR QUALITY - Health Impacts To You and Your Children ( See PDF Flyer )

Committed to protecting the environment and the health and safety of citizens, Wilma Subra started Subra Company in 1981. Subra Company is a chemistry lab and environmental consulting firm in New Iberia, LA.

Mrs. Subra provides technical assistance to citizens, across the United States and some foreign countries, concerned with their environment by combining technical research and evaluation. This information is then presented to community members so that strategies may be developed to address their local struggles.

Utilizing the information gained from community involvement, the needs identified are translated into policy changes at the State and Federal level through service on multi-stake holder committees. She has just completed a seven year term as Vice-Chair of the Environmental Protection Agency National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and

Technology (NACEPT), a five year term on the National Advisory Committee of the U. S. Representative to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation and a six year term on the EPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) where she served as a member of the Cumulative Risk and Impacts Working Group of the NEJAC Council, and chaired the NEJAC Gulf Coast Hurricanes Work Group.

Mrs. Subra holds degrees in Microbiology/Chemistry from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. She received the MacArthur Fellowship “Genius” Award from the MacArthur Foundation for helping ordinary citizens understand, cope with and combat environmental issues in their communities and was one of three finalist in the Environmental Category of the 2004 Volvo for Life Award.

REMINDER: NCTCA Showing of Split Estate

When: Thursday, April 8, 2010

Where: Studio Movie Grill
225 Merchants Row I-20 & Matlock
Arlington, Texas 76018 Ticket

Prices:
Student - $12.00General - $15.00
Reserved Seating - $25.00
Movie Star - $50.00

6:00 - 7:00pm - Networking& order food and beverages
7:00 - 9:00pm - Program & Documentary Film - SPLIT ESTATE
9:00 - 10:00pm - Networking & refreshments

Join us for a special presentation of Split Estate, the award- winning documentary that presents a riveting look at a David vs. Goliath confrontation unfolding in communities through the United States and particularly in the north Texas Barnett Shale.
View Trailer.

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NCTCA proudly presents: SPLIT ESTATE

When: Thursday, April 8, 2010

Where: Studio Movie Grill
225 Merchants Row I-20 & Matlock
Arlington, Texas 76018

Ticket Prices:
Student - $12.00
General - $15.00
Reserved Seating - $25.00
Movie Star - $50.00

6:00 - 7:00pm - Networking& order food and beverages
7:00 - 9:00pm - Program & Documentary Film - SPLIT ESTATE
9:00 - 10:00pm - Networking & refreshments

Join us for a special presentation of Split Estate, the award- winning documentary that presents a riveting look at a David vs. Goliath confrontation unfolding in communities through the United States and particularly in the north Texas Barnett Shale. View Trailer.

Click below to purchase tickets.
Use Pay Pal to purchase tickets >>>

NCTCA to air Split Estate April 8th

NCTCA PROUDLY PRESENTS
SPLIT ESTATE

• When: Thursday, April 8, 2010
  
• Where: Studio Movie Grill
  225 Merchants Row
  Arlington, Texas 76018
  For directions to the theater go to:
  

http://www.studiomoviegrill.com/theaters/arlington.php

****TICKET INFORMATION AVAILABLE SOON****

YOU asked for it...... we listened!
Join us for a special presentation of Split Estate, the award- winning documentary that presents a riveting look at a David vs. Goliath confrontation unfolding in communities thought the United States and particularly in the north Texas Barnett Shale.

We will also have a special presentation by Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council, who has publicly stated, "Split Estate tells a powerful story about Americans living with the dirty side of oil and gas development in their own backyards."

Natural gas is being sold to the American public as the answer to all of our energy woes. It's championed by industry and politicians on both sides of the aisle as "the clean fossil fuel," and "the bridge fuel," as we look to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and our dependence on foreign oil.
In the midst of the hype, Split Estate shows there is no such thing as a "clean" fossil fuel. Nor is there clean extraction, as citizens on the front lines of the drilling boom will attest.
www.nctca.net

FORWARD - BABY - FORWARD!

As the time honored saying goes, you can be a part of the solution or continue to be a part of the problem. Only by working together for the common good can we even begin to protect our communities from unwanted and/or unneeded industrial activities that continue to harm the air we breathe or the water needed to sustain our quality of life.

Please join with us to help protect our future and the continued safety of our families BY FORWARDING THIS EMAIL to your school administrators, your teachers, your church leaders, the PTA and other community contacts. Ask them to learn how this expanding heavy industrial activity called gas drilling is affecting our most vulnerable citizens....our children!

North Central Texas Communities Alliance

Esther McElfish, Pres.
Gary Hogan, V.P.
Louis McBee, Treas.

www.nctca.net

Reminder: NCTCA Gas Drilling 101 Tonight

This is just a reminder of the North Central Texas Communities Alliance NCTCA Meeting tonight.

WHEN: Thursday, March 11, 2010
6:30 - 7:00 pm - Coffee/Tea & Networking
7:00 - 8:45 pm - Meeting & Program
8:45 - 9:15 pm - Networking

WHAT: Program: "GAS DRILLING BASICS 101"

YOU asked for it...... we listened! We'll have a panel of knowledgeable, experienced, Community Leaders who have been involved in promoting measures to protect our HEALTH, SAFETY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS!

WHERE: Hotel Trinity - Inn Suites I-30 @ Beach Street (east of downtown Ft. Worth)

NCTCA Press Release: TCEQ Air Quality Test in Fort Worth

Read the NCTCA Press Release on the Fort Worth TCEQ Air Quality Test

2010 Kick-Off Campaign

North Central Texas Communities Alliance
Together we Bargain, Divided we Beg
Greetings!
North Central Texas Communities Alliance is a broad-based coalition of individuals, organizations and communities throughout the Barnett Shale area working on local, state and national levels for positive solutions to the problems related to natural gas drilling and production.

FEATURED SPEAKERS FOR JANUARY
Next Meeting: January 7, 2010
Where: Hotel Trinity - Inn Suites
IH30 @ Beach Street

Doors will open at 6:30pm for coffee, networking
and news interviews.
Meeting will begin at 7:00pm and end at 8:45pm

Guest Speakers
Senator Wendy Davis

One of our featured speakers will be Senator Davis, who has historically been an advocate for responsible mineral exploration and production in the Barnett Shale. Because of recent evidence of harmful chemicals produced from gas drilling, she and other state elected officials have been calling for additional testing and controls with natural gas drilling and production, and has been a statewide leader for stronger controls, both local and statewide, governing natural gas pipelines.


Mayor Tillman's video remarks
Mayor Calvin Tillman - Dish, Texas

Mayor Tillman has been on the front lines of the battle to keep his town safe and clean from the effects of uncontrolled pipelines and gas drilling within the city limits of Dish Texas. Much of the time being the Lone Ranger in he battle to save some of his town. His views and unique experiences with these very important issues are a must to hear in his own words.
Gas drilling trumps citizen protections?

As the time honored saying goes, you can be a part of the solution or continue to be a part of the problem. Only by working together for the common good can we even begin to protect our communities from unwanted and/or unneeded industrial activities that continue to harm the air we breathe or the water needed to sustain our quality of life.

Please join with us to help protect our future and the continued safety of our families. Our goal is to Communicate, to Educate and to Mobilize north central Texas citizens into action when the need arises.

North Central Texas Communities Alliance
Esther McElfish, Pres.
Gary Hogan, V.P.
Louis McBee, Treas.

http://www.nctca.net/

Update: Important Meeting of the North Central Texas Communities Alliance

The NCTCA is

North Central Texas Communities Alliance is a broad-based coalition of individuals, organizations, and communities throughout the Barnett Shale area working on local, state, and national levels for positive solutions to the problems related to natural gas drilling and pipelines.



There was a great crowd for the first meeting of the NCTCA. Communities from Arlington, Fort Worth, Denton and Flower Mound were represented.
The motto tonight was "Together We Bargain..Divided We Beg"

The speakers tonight included residents from the Carter Street area in Fort Worth who have been fighting a high pressured gas pipeline that would carry raw, odorless, wet gas, under their homes.

Mayor Calvin Tillman of Dish, Texas had a message via video since he was called out of town for business at the last minute. The Texas Department of Health and Human Services will be testing 50 Dish residents for toxins in their system. More information to come when available.
Citizens unite to address the problems related to Barnett Shale gas drilling and pipelines.

Gary Hogan and Don Young were on hand. They were the first to really try to call attention to the environmental, health and safety issues from gas drilling.


Tim Reggiero spoke about Aruba Petroleum's assault on his property, home and family.
http://stopthedrilling.blogspot.com/2009/11/wise-county-messenger-tells-story-of.html

Sharon Wilson from the Oil and Gas Accountability Project http://www.ogap.org/ and Bluedaze Drilling Reform For Texas http://www.txsharon.blogspot.com/. The OGAP is forming a Texas Chapter. They have been very successful in New Mexico and Colorado in bringing state reform for the oil and gas industry.
They will work to:

• Establish strong local and state oil and gas regulations in Texas


• Ensure that where oil and gas resources are developed, companies utilize best practices to prevent and reduce their impact.


• Protect key areas threatened by energy development such as the LBJ Grasslands and urban green space.


• End Industry exemptions to our nation's environmental and public health laws such as the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act.


• Advocate for an energy future that is based on clean, safe and renewable energy sources.
  

Here is the nctca website:
http://www.nctca.net/