Oil and gas companies are seeking legal shelter as Texas comes closer to using waste brine once considered too toxic for anything other than fracking to replenish Texas’ water shortages.
Legislation filed by state Rep. Drew Darby, R-San Angelo, could give them, transportation companies and landowners such protection.
They say it is safe but say they won’t release it unless they are essentially given immunity.
We can trust them, right?
I mean, these big oil companies haven’t lied to us yet, or fucked over rural communities.
Why would they start now?
I’d be upset, but this is Texas’s water. I say go for it.