This website explores the facts, truths and myths about natural gas exploration and production using the slickwater horizontal hydraulic fracturing process in the Barnett, Haynesville and Eagle Ford Shales of Texas, as well as other shale formations nationwide. Our purpose is to present the best available information about natural gas exploration and production to help civic leaders and citizens make informed decisions about how to proceed with this heavy industrial process in their communities. The links below offer access to a wide variety of community groups' and formally structured organizations' websites and blogs that are fighting to protect people and the environment from unsafe, hazardous, heavy industrial mining practices.

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*** General Information *** Dallas Area Residents for Responsible Drilling Fish Creek Monitor BlueDaze Americans Against Fracking New Yorkers Against Fracking Protect Our Colorado Dangers of Fracking Frack Tracker

*** Sand Mining *** Allamakee County Protectors Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers Earthworks Earthblog FlexFrac Proppants NPR Story: Air Quality Issues Concerned Chippewa Citizens Houston County Protectors FracSand Awareness Project Is It Worth It?

*** Local Grassroots Orgs *** Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy What the Frack.org *** Nat'l Grassroots Orgs *** Food and Water Watch Eco Watch Waterkeeper Alliance *** International Links ***

Texas Administrative Code, Title 30, Part 1, Chapter 101, Subchapter A, Rule 101.4, Environmental Quality, Nuisance No person shall discharge from any source whatsoever one or more air contaminants or combinations thereof, in such concentration and of such duration as are or may tend to be injurious to or to adversely affect human health or welfare, animal life, vegetation, or property, or as to interfere with the normal use and enjoyment of animal life, vegetation, or property.

33 U.S.C. § 408 : US Code - Section 408: Taking possession of, use of, or injury to harbor or river improvements It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to take possession of or make use of for any purpose, or build upon, alter, deface, destroy, move, injure, obstruct by fastening vessels thereto or otherwise, or in any manner whatever impair the usefulness of any sea wall, bulkhead, jetty, dike, levee, wharf, pier, or other work built by the United States, or any piece of plant, floating or otherwise, used in the construction of such work under the control of the United States, in whole or in part, for the preservation and improvement of any of its navigable waters or to prevent floods, or as boundary marks, tide gauges, surveying stations, buoys, or other established marks, nor remove for ballast or other purposes any stone or other material composing such works...

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