FRACKIN CHEMS-BLOWIN IN MY BACK DOOR

I am elated about the Commissioners 7-6 vote to postpone a decision on gas drilling wells (all 23 of them) at Mountain Creek Lake/Dallas Naval Air Station.
You know what that said to me?
It said that regular people who see oily pools, smell chemical odors, cough and wheeze, have neighbors with cancer, and read chemical levels in the newspaper for benzene; people who have smelly flaming tap water and unusable wells, who have lost value in homes next to drilling rigs ARE NOT CRAZY! We have not hypocondriacked up a frack-fear or hallucinated the physical results of drilling chemicals. WE ARE AT RISK-a risk yet unknown.
So why was the vote so close when the risk is so obvious?
Anyway, the pressure to get gas now out of West Dallas shale -frail, breakable shale, is explosively intense. After all, the 34 million Dallas was paid for the gas leases has reportedly been spent!
Reminds me of the pressure to get gas from the Gulf on BP's brief timeline - and we all know how that turned out.
Let's just sit and watch how the gas industry responds to the vote: with continued promises and tangible solutions, and/or with more personal and political pressure?
These corporate individuals play to win, but-surprise-citizens do, too; not to gloat or be mean, but to be strong when health is truly at stake.
May truth, best-practices, improved methodology and tight regulations carry the day-and may we never forget the people who bought $130,000 dream homes by the lake with absolutely no warning that a rig would be their "lake view" out the back door, and the source of foul air sweeping through open windows on a cool autumn day.
Nice lake breeze wafting off Mountain Creek Lake, huh? Care to sit out on the patio and watch trucks haul wastewater until they get stuck in the mud?
Oh, West Dallas, life does not have to be like this. You have suffered too long and hard already.
You are the industrial arm-pit, the centrally located step-child of Dallas; and this is not a positive
reality for the future of a great city.