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Councilman Silcox,
Thank you for taking the time to speak with me today. Don't usually like to bother you on the weekend, but this issue is coming on fast and is extremely important to the residents of east Fort Worth. As I said on the phone, my concern is that if we continue to approve high impact wells they will grow like a cancer on our communities... It seems like such a small thing to approve the high impact wells down by Quanna Parker park, but that site will add to the huge noise problems for the residences in River Bend Estates, created my the compressor stations and wells north of them. Also, I held a meeting for people in the John T. White and Mallard Cove area and they are also experiencing noise problems that affect their ability to sleep at night. Has ANYONE with the city gone out, knocked on doors, and asked these people how they feel about either of these high impact sites? I have, and I can say that these people don't want them! Not only that, these proposed high impact wells are not even necessary to get to the gas under Quanna Parker park or Mallard Cove park! Regardless of what staff tells you or Chesapeake may say. Don't believe me, ask for an independent geologist study. While we expected to have just a few high impact wells when the consideration was first adopted, now we find that it is becoming just commonplace to apply for and to receive approval from the City Council for wells right next to city parks where children and adults will be in very close proximity. We will be putting our citizens at risk without having done any long term environmental impact studies, or health risk studies for gas wells or chemical injection/disposal wells. We need a moratorium on HIGH IMPACT wells until we have time to discuss them with our residents and the new Task Force. Although I believe it should be a greater distance, we have an ordinance that requires a 600 foot distance between protected uses and this extreme industrial use. Could we please try to stick to that distance until we can determine what is safe and what is not? Louis McBee 817-312-2023 cc: city council and EFW contacts |
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