FWCanDo's Young unhappy with Meadowbrook deal

Don Young, head of FWCanDo (Fort Worth Citizens Against Neighborhood Drilling Ordinance), isn't happy with the Greater Meadowbrook Mineral Leasing Task Force's decision to recommend a gas lease deal with XTO Energy.

He notes FWCanDo's genesis was in the Meadowbrook area of east Fort Worth. "Eastsiders were informed early on about environmental and safety tradeoffs that erase much of the expected windfall," he writes on FWCanDo's blog. "We pulled back the veils on corrupt elected officials and their industry-friendly ordinance. We scoffed at hte misleaing language of industry ad campaigns. We questioned the ethical lapses of our daily newspaper. We knew about the risk that gas drilling posed to our neighborhood integrity."

For these reasons, he writes he expected the Meadowbrook task force to tell any interested gas companies to "take their gas wells and shove 'em." Click here to visit Young's blog.

-- Scott Nishimura

(Photo: Young at a 2005 protest in east Fort Worth)

Comments

OGML are being signed every day on the EAST Side, Less than or equal to 1% are NO Leases, sirius girl no one is selling out, People just think for themselfs, something is better than nothing.

[sirius_girl]

Don Young does not stand alone.

Many eastsiders are not signing offered leases.
Quality of life issues and concerns for all the neighborhoods of Fort Worth go far beyond a chunky check and a meek promise from a solitary company to drill outside of our neighborhood.

While XTO has negotiated with some respect with the united Meadowbrook neighborhoods they are not the only drillers looking hard at our area. Chesapeake owns 55 acres on the perimeter of Tandy Hills and is said to be surveying around the park this week.

There are more attractive things in life than selling out to the highest bidder!