PR Propaganda vs.RR Reality

Another clip from Chesapeake's Urban Site Planner, Cassie:

"We have urban gas drilling. We have to take into consideration that we have neighbors - it's a completely different canvas. I take great pride in knowing that we are looking towards the future for these neighborhoods."

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Here is a collage of scenes presented for public consumption:

And below . . . is a glimpse into "Chesapeake Reality" at the Day site on Ragland Road in Arlington, Texas:

Even with colorful frames around these photos, the site is still what it is:
A stark and unsightly contradiction to Chesapeake's propaganda which states - in their own words - that they are "good neighbors" concerned with aesthetics, that anyone walking by won't even know it's a drill site, that they need to go above and beyond . . . in other words, all is well in the Barnett Shale gas fields. 

While walls and landscaping would be a welcome change, the truth remains . . .  

So to all residents of Barnett Shale: Even though a site may not be openly visible, remember what is lurking behind those tall masonry walls and lined trees that Chesapeake, other operators, and your city governments praise in an effort to make YOU believe that as long as it's pretty to look at it, all is well in your world. 

Please click each image for a larger view of this ugly mess:

UPDATE:

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Introducing . . .

Welcome to the Ragland Road Chronicle . . . reports and commentary on general issues related to gas drilling operations, and more specifically the Barnett Shale, the Chesapeake drill site on Ragland Road, and multiple wells within a one-mile radius of that site.

Ragland Road is located in far southeast Arlington in Tarrant County just south of Debbie Lane and west of Highway 360.

According to a reported published in the Fort Worth Star Telegram in 2010, the first six wells drilled at the Ragland site had been average or above average in production.

But, Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon described the seventh well in this way:

"It's a monster!"

The well is the biggest of the thousands of producing wells in the Barnett Shale, based on average daily production for a one-month period, according to Gene Powell, publisher of the Powell Barnett Shale Newsletter.

Allegedly, the Arlington well's producing life will be "probably greater than 50 years."

Among those who are happy with the "monster" well is Glenn Day of Arlington, a real estate appraiser who, along with 13 relatives, leased Chesapeake 128 acres site that had been acquired by his great-grandfather, probably in the late 1800s. The family property is zoned commercial, and Day said he expects eventually to sell it for commercial development.

The natural gas industry has environmental challenges to meet in urban drilling, "and I think they will meet them," Day said, adding that Chesapeake has "been good to work with."

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RRC reporter finds it noteworthy that those who so solidarily sing the praises of the gas operators and industry, without question or skepticism, are always those who are either (a) firmly entrenched in their uncompromising and/or misguided and/or uninformed political mindsets, and/or (b) happily lining their financial nests with fracking-tainted money.


Source: http://www.summitmidstream.com/docs/Kimball_Hill_Monster_11110.pdf