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Natural gas drilling regulation bill fails in committee

Controversy over natural gas drilling in the Fayetteville Shale makes it to the capitol. Hundreds of gas industry workers protested bills setting up stricter environmental regulations.

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CountryBoy123 - 3/27/2011 1:28 PM
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So you'd rather have one major earthquake when the fault decides to give??? Id prefer to have 1,000's of small earthquakes that are releasing preasure a little at a time than to have a major earthquake as Japan just did, keep in mind we live on the largest line in the nation. But I suppose you are right, Id rather have a large one too and have to suffer as our people overseas are now!!! Cant argue with a fence post like yourself. I know your kind and there's no getting through, even if it were the truest of true statements, you'd still have something to say.!! Good Day

CountryBoy123 - 3/26/2011 11:41 AM
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If any of you were actually educated about natural gas drilling, maybe then you would understand all the regualtions the companies are under and do follow. Every wrong step a company makes, AOGC and ADEQ are there to fine the companies. There are 1000's and 1000's of people who are able to support their families due to natural gas companies. Just because you are not getting any benifits doesn't mean you have to show your ignoranceby saying its poluting our water, and crumbling my house, or the roads are bad. THIS IS ARKANSAS, we've always had bad roads, and we've has earthquakes since 1800's. HELLO, we live on the largest fault line in the nation, but wait, that couldnt possibly be the reason why we're having small earthquakes could it?? It must be due to drilling right?? If one has kept up with all the media, they would know that natural gas companies have complied with regaltory agencies and shut down disposal wells that they were asked too because they were thought to be linked with the earthquakes.....theyve been shut down more than a month now and we're still having earthquakes?? Just do yourself and everyone else a favor and do some research, ask questions, gain some knowledge before you jump on a ban wagon because you dont make a dollar from a gas company. Think about all the other people who are able to make mortgage payments, buy a car for a kid, or send a friend to the dentist to get their teeth fixed....all because the gas companies. People should be thankful, and not some greedy and bitter because not everybody is getting a penny.

maddysdad1 - 3/24/2011 5:40 PM
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Josh Spencer's BUSINESS ECHO FLOW OIL FIELD SERVICES INC 1910 Penny Street Conway, AR 72034 IMAGINE THAT HE"S MAKING A PROFIT???? BUSINESS IS BOOMING I CAN BELIEVE THAT THIS GUY HAS NO SAY IN WHATS GOOD OR WHATS BAD OH...... AND BY THE WAY FOX 16 WAY TO GO FOR GIVING US THE GREAT INSITE OF WHERE YOUR SOURCE IS MAKES ME WONDER KEEP THIS DAMN STORY QUITE THAT WAY WE WILL HAVE A GREAT STORIES COMING OUT AFTER THE EARTHQUAKES KILL ABOUT 600,000 OR MORE SPLITS THE US IN HALF AND CAUSES A WORLD CRISIS GUESS WHAT????? YOU THERE AT FOX 16 WILL HAVE A FRONT SEAT.... NOW THAT!!!!! WOULD BE GREAT NEWS!!!!! WINK WINK!!!!

shannon180 - 3/23/2011 8:05 PM
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oh yea sure some are selling lots of fuel and tires due to the trucks and terrible roads but when these wells are in your back yard and contaminate your only water source or cause cracks and damage to your property you see thing differently. NOT really more regulation just more enforcement of the current regulations. Truth is they dont wont someone sniffing around finding out what there really pumping into our land.

shoggard - 3/23/2011 7:11 PM
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I am one of the few that has not financially gained one red cent from the drilling of the faulkner county area. I do however deal with the earthquakes that is destroying my home and value of my land, I also drive the roads that have been unkept and beat up from the trucks and heavy equipment that drive on a constant motion. Remember our roads and homes were not built to withstand such mistreatment and neither does my income. I am a single mother who loss my job when Target laid off, I can not afford the earthquake insurance or to pay any repairs my home will need from the abuse. My home is practically worth nothing, who will buy my home here in Greenbrier. Think about the majority we benefit NOT from the Gas!
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