San Antonio Considers Shale Drilling's Effect on Ozone

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As the ozone rating in San Antonio continues its slow upward march, area officials are beginning to investigate whether oil and gas drilling in the Eagle Ford Shale has anything to do with it. But their efforts are fraught with complications. And they remain far from answers in what is sure to be a high-stakes debate over the environmental impact of one of the country’s newest and fastest-growing oil and gas development regions.

“If people are pointing fingers, you’re just not going to achieve your goals unless somebody steps in with a big stick,” said Peter Bella, director of natural resources for the Alamo Area Council of Governments, or AACOG. “And that’s just what we don’t want to see here.”
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1. Since I am asthmatic and live 60 miles north of SA I find the

article interesting. The fracking business is so big. I personally know
a man involved with the establishment of man camps...those camps are
expanding almost daily and not just in the area sighted but up north
toward the panhandle too. Makes me sick that it seems the country is
hell bent on fracking us out of a planet.

Also found this paragraph 'interesting'....let's go after the little guys...

“It’s kind of inevitable,” said Dr. Thomas Schlenker, director of the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District. His department is proposing a plan to the San Antonio City Council that would allow the department to license some 3,000 businesses, including laundromats and car repair shops, and begin inspecting them to measure and control their emissions.

...I'm not saying that these small businesses shouldn't be looked at it's just that
the energy companies seem to get away with murder, polluting the gulf and paying
little in taxes.