Jul 22, 2008
by Steve Smith
Remember that house on South Hills I wrote about back in February? Back then, it looked more like this:
Today, it looks more like this:
This is how Chesapeake will improve Fort Worth neighborhoods. Keep that in mind when they are telling you about all of the nice things they are going to do to improve your neighborhood.
Tags: Chesapeake Energy, pipelines
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21 Comments, Comments or Pings
sirius_girl
damn!
i was just there on Sunday. gives a new meaning to “in the blink of an eye”
Jul 22nd, 2008
cozette
I agree, the after shot looks much better.
Jul 22nd, 2008
sirius_girl
you mistake me, Suzette.
i’d be careful to side with folks that move into neighborhoods and take a house for their landing pad. That TCU/Westcliff address will be a staging area for laying the pipeline through the neighborhood, so says the Chesapeake PR machine.
Jul 22nd, 2008
Bernie
Sirius_Girl, just so you know… Suzette and Cozette are two VERY different people.
Jul 22nd, 2008
sirius_girl
thanks for the heads up.
i wondered what was up with that.
so, cozette………….
Jul 22nd, 2008
b kooistra
so, explain to me exactly what happened to the house? Why was it removed? I’m assuming something to do with Cheapeake, but ??//
Jul 23rd, 2008
Steve-O
Pipelines need a lot of room to turn corners. Chesapeake/Midstream condemned part of the property for the pipeline, then bought the house and razed it.
Jul 23rd, 2008
Kevin Buchanan
That’s absolutely disgusting.
Jul 23rd, 2008
Jeff
Have you noticed the ’round-the-clock security “patrolling” the site from a lawn chair across the way?
Jul 23rd, 2008
Don Young
Trinity Trees has been compromised. Tandy Hills is seriously threatened. Gateway Park is already gone. Pipelines in Trinity Park. Pipelines coming everywhere.
Today I learned that a beautiful section of the Trinity Trail system due north of Greenwood Funeral Home (near University Dr. and the river) is slated for “urban renewal – Chesapeake-style.”
A nibble here a nibble there and you can see why I use the phrase, Dirty Ol’ Town. I am constantly amazed at the lack of activism in this town, at how much crap people here can stomach without acting. Is this part of the so-called, “Fort Worth Style”? To be polite and civil while Big Gas slowly erodes our health and safety? Do we take pride in trusting industrial Trojan horses to do the right thing? How many “Trinity Trees” can we handle before we’ve had enough? What’s the tipping point?
Is outrage building out there or are we just getting more numb from the daily dose of bad news? I can’t tell but I know this: There is only one logical choice for us surface dwellers:
MORATORIUM NOW.
We will sort out the details and the round up the criminals later. First we have stop the bleeding. Blogging is great but it will take a bunch of bloggers to get off their asses, pick up a sign and march on city hall to save this town. Start spreading the news.
MORATORIUM NOW.
Jul 23rd, 2008
Suzette
Don – Any specific date and time for the march on City Hall or is it one person at a time? Masses of people speak louder than words so who’s doing the organizing?
Jul 23rd, 2008
John
@ Don
I”m ready, let’s go, give me a time and place. Don, you are well known in environmental community, pick a council meeting, bring signs, and I’ll show up. Use your Tandy Hills email list to get this thing going. You are right, a moratorium would be great, maybe it’ll last as long as the moratorium on off shore oil drilling. That’s been at least 27 years!
Jul 24th, 2008
Quaid
If you are going to peacefully protest, make a sign with large letters that easy to read. Give a website and stand at the corner of streets where people go to work in the morning. Wear your sandwich board and give out flyers to cars so they can read your bullet points and remind them of the website.
Use a call for action. Make them do something. Place a phone call (to the Mayor), Send and email, sign up for a newsletter. Then you have the start of something. The process always falls down because of no follow up with the poeple,
While protesting, take it to the Mayors office. wear your sandwich board and walk around the block if you don’t want to get a protest permit. “Me officer, I am not protesting, this is just part of my exercise routine and it’s kind hot out. This guy gave me a placard to keep the sun off my face”
I am going to San Francisco in a few days and will be gone for a few days, but I will protest with you…
Jul 27th, 2008
Greg
A “protest permit” ?
ROFL
Jul 27th, 2008
Quaid
Greg, Have you ever been arrested for not having the permit? My guess, is that you don’t protest much!
Jul 27th, 2008
Adam S.
How do you even get a “protest permit?”
Jul 27th, 2008
Quaid
You have to get a permit to gather in many cities, aka a protest permit.
I got hauled in and released in Philly for a Mumia Abu-Jamal rally, where we did not obtain a permit to gather.
“The city is now requiring any group of 15 or more to get a permit before gathering on a street, sidewalk or park.”
(Said in humor and not an attack) Adam and Greg… tell me what it’s like on the sidelines, I have been in the protest game for 12 years now.
Jul 27th, 2008
Steve M.
I go by the South Hills site all the time. I saw the house, saw the “guards” in the lawn chairs, saw the site after the house was razed, and saw them put sod down, install an above ground sprinkler system and now it looks like they are putting up posts for a perimeter fence. I’m in Overton Park NA, so I’m nearby and very curious as to exactly what’s going to happen at this site. Why the resodding and irrigation? I’ve seen the sprinklers running during the heat of the day (violation, isn’t it?). I guess that’s an indication of the “respect” they have for our water supply. Why the fencing? Are they just going to dig a big deep hole to install some kind of angled pipe to accomodate the turn the pipeline will have to make in that area or is there more to this?
Jul 31st, 2008
Max
There’s an exception to the water restrictions if you’re coaxing new grass to grow – http://www.fortworthgov.org/water/info/default.aspx?id=5950 (4th “bullet” – “An affirmative defense…”).
The previous owner has said that CHK/Texas Midstream has said that they are going to turn it into park. Seriously. No, seriously.
Jul 31st, 2008
Steve M.
Thanks for the info about the watering exception.
Turn it into a park…………Hmmm
Jul 31st, 2008
Greg
Quaid:
I’m busted! You’ve got me regarding my participation in the protest game, although a bunch of us did picket Staples’ pole sign. Maybe being led by Wendy Davis helped keep us out of jail. Pole sign’s gone, too.
Nonetheless, I wonder what our actual ordinance is here? Or were you quoting FW?
As to conditions on the sidelines, they are usually comfortable with air conditioning and padded seats. Like, say, City Hall. Or neighborhood association meetings. I’ve put in some hours in those kinds of settings. Sometimes to good effect.
But the sidelines can be more fun, because you can actually talk to public officials and sometimes they get really pissed off at you and it looks like their heads might explode.
If you can join us Thursday, look me up! http://www.gasmoratorium.org
Jul 31st, 2008