On Thursday, Chesapeake Energy submitted a high-impact waiver request with the City for the proposed drilling site at Eighth Avenue, according to an email from local attorney and concerned citizen Liane Janovsky. The site is called the ‘Railroad Lease,’ and the hearing is preliminarily set for July 8. Fort Worth & Western Railroad has submitted a letter of support for the waiver application. For an idea of how this might play out, I refer you to my previous post on Bill Davis.

Liane has two recommendations that I also agree with:

The public hearing on the proposed high-impact waiver is scheduled at 7 p.m. on July 8 at City Council chambers, 1000 Throckmorton St. If you oppose this site, be there.

The Gas Drilling Taskforce Public Hearing is scheduled for this coming Monday at 6:30 p.m., same place. If you have concerns about pipelines, safety, high-impact waivers, injection wells and the ever-narrowing definition of parks by the task force, please be there.

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• October 8, 2008 -- Eighth Avenue Aftermath
• October 8, 2008 -- City Council Rejects Eighth Avenue Variance
• October 6, 2008 -- Council To Vote on Eighth Avenue Variance
• September 30, 2008 -- Chesapeake Planning Eighth Avenue End Run?
• September 9, 2008 -- High Impact Variances, To Be Continued
• September 9, 2008 -- The Narwhal and The Cavalier
• July 29, 2008 -- Eighth Avenue Update: Notes from Berkeley
• June 30, 2008 -- Eighth Avenue Showdown Postponed
• May 6, 2008 -- Eighth Avenue Again? Hang On To Your Top Hat