NCTCA's stated mission focuses on:

Education -  Communication - Mobilization

NCTCA - North Central Texas Communities Alliance is a broad-based coalition of individuals, organizations, and communities throughout the  Barnett Shale area working on local, state, and national levels for positive solutions to the problems related to natural gas drilling and pipelines.

To facilitate our goals, we strive to Communicate, Educate and then to Mobilize citizens to action in North Texas and their own unique communities.

It is our belief that a MORATORIUM ON ALL NEW PERMITS (for gas wells, pipelines, compressors ) is required in order to have time to sort through the maze of complex issues regarding our health, safety, environment and quality of life.

NCTCA is about empowering you and our communities!

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Take a stand against Range Resources
Donate now to defend Texas Sharon!

Dear Calvin ,

We can do it! Help Sharon stand up to Range!

Range Resources recently subpoenaed Earthworks’ own Texas Sharon Wilson and then hauled her into court.

Range says Sharon conspired with a Texas landowner to defame the company. The landowner sued Range for contaminating his water well. Range says Sharon’s blogposts about the case are destroying their reputation.

I think that Range is doing a pretty good job of ruining their own reputation. Don’t you?

An attorney stepped up to defend Sharon when Range tried to force her to hand over her emails and other information that Range has no right to ask for.

Earthworks is starting a legal defense fund to protect Sharon and our staff from industry harassment. Stand with Texas Sharon by making a contribution today.
Show Range Resources and the rest of the oil and gas industry that we won’t let their bullying silence us. They can’t keep their dirty secrets hidden through intimidation and curbing free speech rights.

We can’t let them win. If they succeed against Sharon, they will keep going after all their critics until there’s no one left to expose what’s really going on in the gas patch.
DONATE NOW: Stand up against the bullies by giving to Earthworks’ legal defense fund now!
Thank you!

  Jennifer Krill, Executive Director.
Instructions:

• Click here to go to the donate page.

OPEN LETTER TO: US Representative Kaye Granger

Ms. Granger,

In 2009, The North Central Texas Communities Alliance cheered our supported for Dr. Al Armendariz for the position of EPA Region 6 Administrator because we knew he would do an excellent job of enforcing environmental laws and protecting public health. We support him today because we believe that he has stood strong for protection of our region and understood the unique contributors to our region. He has done a champion job of standing up for efforts that needed address.

The same people who are called for Dr. Armendariz to resign are also calling for the entire EPA to be de-funded and abolished. It is clear that they do not support federal enforcement of any environmental standards under any circumstances. They are engaging in a new McCarthyism towards all things environmental. Nothing you could do in response to this completely contrived controversy would satisfy them.

We are disappointed in his resignation although publically stated as his decision and respect it, we feel the political pressure that forced his decision was unjust and not in citizens of Texas best interests.

Dr. Armendariz was  a popular and well-liked Regional Administrator among all but the most extremely politicized self interest Oil and Gas stakeholders in the region.  Dr. Armendariz’s work has led directly to concrete improvements in the lives of people. For example, EPA’s recent decision to enforce air pollution standards that will reduce harmful emissions from gas drilling operations would not have been possible without research first conducted by Dr. Armendariz in 2009 and in prior years, as an air quality expert and professor at SMU Dallas, Texas on air quality, that demonstrated the urgent need for this policy.

Our North Texas region remains in serious non attainment to federal air quality ozone standards. Our region has been inundated with natural gas drilling activities. There has been very little or any interest by major gas drilling companies to control their emission releases in the region. In fact they invest heavily in PR, lobby and influence, rather than incorporating readily available control technologies.

Common sense alone would dictate that this added and obvious contributor to our region’s air quality requires regulation to control their emission footprint.

No amount of manufactured outrage can obscure the fact that Dr. Armendariz stood for  exactly the kind of serious-minded scientist and policy maker that we needed as Region 6 Administrator. Our hope is his successor will pick up his mantle and EPA  will stand strong behind them. Texans needs the EPA!

I wish we could say we had faith in our own State agencies RRC  and TCEQ  they have caused us to feel let down too many times and have proven too many times who they work for and that is the influential Oil and Gas lobby in Texas. Economy may be good but what good is economy without environmental health safety and protection of other natural resources of clean air and water.

Thanks for your attention and Stand Up for US.
Gary Hogan
Interim President
NCTCA
North Central Texas Communities Alliance
c/c to President Barack Obama; TX Senators Kaye Hutchison & John Cornyn
and Director of EPA Lisa Jackson