Some Texans who challenge oil and gas waste sites must spend significant sums and time on investigating what they say the Texas Railroad Commission should examine. Will new regulations for handling waste increase oversight or just maintain the status quo?
during his 2022 race that campaigns are expensive to run but he has never allowed a political contribution to influence his decisions.
“As a candidate for office and now as commissioner, I base my decisions on what I believe is best for the state and our citizens,” Wright said in a statement. A recent draft of the new rules has some changes Commission Shift supports, like requiring more wells to monitor groundwater near waste facilities.
Among the changes Palacios would like to see in the new rule: increasing public outreach, strengthening enforcement provisions, more rigorous testing of oilfield waste and requiring a more intensive review of permit applications.In Orange Grove, the odor from Blackhorn’s disposal site caused neighbors to file dozens of complaints with the state in 2019, the year the facility opened.
Tara Jones began keeping detailed odor logs in late 2019 at the TCEQ’s request. The following August, she documented 14 hours of rank odors on one day, 18 and a half hours on another. Blackhorn appealed, denying it had violated its permit. The company was allowed to keep operating pending the commission’s decision on the permit suspension.
“The RRC’s priority was ensuring the facility was brought into compliance with its permit and that there were no continuing issues,” DeSilva, the commission spokesperson, wrote in an email. Jones and other neighbors were disappointed with the Railroads Commission’s decisions. They still didn’t know what had been making them sick, and Jones said she thought Blackhorn deserved stiffer penalties.Months after an oil and gas waste disposal facility opened near the home of Tara Jones and her family near Orange Grove, they started noticing a foul odor that would sometimes make them ill. Jones says it took more than a year of agitating before state regulators took action.
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