Going to The Colonial?
by Pete Wann
View from the Trinity Trail toward Colonial Country Club near Rogers Rd./Trinity Trees area.
I’m not going to be able to go, cause I’m pretty busy next week with things like starting my new job, but I understand there’s this big deal of a golf tournament going on. Apparently the course is so difficult that even the best players on the PGA Tour avoid playing there.
Anyway, if you’re going out to the tournament, save yourself the headache and hassle of trying to find parking, and take the Trinity Trails! Colonial Country Club, together with Streams and Valleys, is working to encourage tournament attendees to lessen their impact on the environment by walking, kayaking, or riding your bike to the Tournament. For every fan that does and checks in at the Streams and Valleys tent, Colonial will donate $10 to Streams and Valleys.
Tags: colonial country club, environmentalism, golf, streams and valleys, Transportation, Trinity River, trinity trails
12 Comments, Comments or Pings
Don Young
Pardon me for spoiling the fun, once again, but let us not forget that Colonial CC is now accessing their mineral holdings at the expense of Trinity Trees and the thousands of people who use Trinity Trails. Along with the RR, by not allowing the drilling rig on their own property, Trinity Trees is forever altered.
If you agree that Mayfest should be boycotted for similar reasons, why not the Colonial tourney? They could have saved the TT site by using their westernmost service area but they chose not to.
I’m not saying it will make a hell of a lot of difference, but someone needed to bear this message. I will never forget how CCC, the RR and Chesapeake with help from the City of FW conspired to desecrate one of the most noble green spaces in the city.
May 19th, 2008
Jeremy
“Best players on the PGA Tour avoid playing there”
Really?
We’ve got five of the top ten this year…
http://www.star-telegram.com/333/story/648725.html
May 19th, 2008
Ben
How can someone criticize UP Railroad for not putting a drillsite in their busy railroad yard & then criticize Ft. Worth & Western RR for attempting to put one on their property? If one is opposed to urban drilling they should be consistently opposed to any drilling, in any location. Someone who is supposedly concerned about safety issues should recognize that a railroad yard is not an appropriate place to put a drillsite. Also, you would think they would respect Colonial CC/UP Railroad’s right to not have a drillsite on their property!
May 20th, 2008
Don Young
Nice try with the Devil’s Advocate question, but I’m not buying it. Life is full of contradictions. I can like golf and hate hockey. I can approve of aspirin and oppose oxycontin. I can OK a gas well in remote west Texas and oppose one in TCU. Etc, etc. The consistency you suggest has a vaguely Nazi sound to it, or maybe Catholic or Baptist. And we know where that kind of thinking got us.
This one is easy and I think most people can see the logic behind it. I believe that Colonial and UP should have done more to locate the site away from TT. By not using their formidable influence and insisting on a better site, they contributed to the denigration of a world class green space and they should be held accountable.
I’m not expecting a massive boycott of the Colonial in a town like FW, but at least a few of us still remember the injustice that happened at Trinity Trees. When we forget, they will start taking more such places.
May 20th, 2008
Jonathan
Also, Ben, keep in mind that those who oppose the 8th Ave site oppose it for being located close to Ryan place, not for being located in a rail yard. There isn’t any contradiction in their position.
May 20th, 2008
Ben
But you have criticized others on this very blog for saying they are not opposed to drilling in rural areas. You are the self appointed anti drilling spokesman and are now criticizing a private company for not wanting drilling on their land. If the neighborhoods can sign leases that say no drilling why can a private company not be given that same right? Also, is the Colonial land also a green space? Are you now saying public trees are more important than private trees? Sounds like class envy to me!
May 20th, 2008
Jonathan
You sure about that first part, Ben? I don’t recall Don ever talking about rural drilling except in the same context used above (i.e. rural drilling ok, urban drilling risky).
It’s also important to remember that in both the Colonial and Trinity Trees cases the trees were located on private land. It just happens that the public had access to the Trinity Trees land.
May 20th, 2008
Ben
From the “Chesapeake trying to buy friends” discussion – Fort Worth is still very much asleep. Some of the finest minds in FW are still, STILL saying that they are “not opposed to drilling in general, just in certain placesâ€. I remember it because I thought he was basically calling out several of the blog’s authors, who have said this on many different occasions. If he is saying drilling is ok as long as it is not in Tarrant County, that is even more riddiculous, because there are lots of areas in Tarrant County that I would still consider rural.
May 20th, 2008
Don Young
Either you are baiting me or not paying attention. There is nothing contradictory in my comments now or previously.
Blog away without me, Ben. Maybe, in your quest to find a chink in my armor, you will find something more important in yourself. Not sure why you want to haul water for an all powerful oil and gas industry. If I had the time I’d ponder that question.
May 20th, 2008
Greg Hughes
Buy billboards…., check.
Buy newspaper ads…., check.
Buy bus wraps…., check.
Buy “Citizens of the Shale” TV time…., check.
Hire Blog contributors…., check.
What an imaginative PR campaign! All that left is:
Buy political leadership…. should there be a check?
May 20th, 2008
Jonathan
Could just be a sock puppet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_sock_puppet).
May 22nd, 2008
Ben
At least I have a job!
May 22nd, 2008
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