We attended Czhilispiel festival in Flatonia, Tx today. One of the absolutely cutest floats in the parade was a very long float staffed by locals dressed in oilfield type clothing complete with hard hats. All over the float--which was a long flat bottom trailer decked out with rigs etc.-was the motto: Drill Baby Drill. I can so empathasize with those people. They are sitting in a good area of Eagle Ford & right now not a lot of drilling is going on there. My family has 85 ac. they leased 2 yrs. ago and no well yet.
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In researching the decades-old Tuscaloosa Trend and the immense wealth it has generated for many, I find it deeply troubling that this resource-rich formation runs directly beneath one of the poorest communities in North Baton Rouge—near Southern University, Louisiana—yet neither the university ( that I am aware of) nor local residents appear to have received any compensation for the minerals extracted from their land.
This area has suffered immense environmental degradation…
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