Tiny Nordheim Sues State Over Drilling Waste Dump
A tiny South Texas town is continuing to fight plans for an oil and gas waste site half its size, even after state regulators gave developers the go-ahead to build it.
A citizen's group in Nordheim — population 316 at last count — is suing the Texas Railroad Commission, challenging the petroleum regulator’s decision to permit a facility that would store waste including drill cuttings, oil-based muds, fracking sand and other toxic oilfield leftovers.
Filed late last month in Travis County district court, the lawsuit argues that the commission's three members erred in May when they unanimously approved the development by San Antonio-based Pyote Reclamation Systems.
It’s the DeWitt County community’s last-ditch effort to thwart the site, prolonging one of the first organized protests against industry activity in South Texas’ Eagle Ford Shale. Residents say the project threatens their way of life.
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2016/08/02/eagle-ford-tiny-nordheim-keeps-battling-drilling-w/
