Gas drilling's waste has become Fort Worth's problem [View all]

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You could watch the 342nd running of the Republican presidential debates, in which several older-than-middle-age white guys will tell us again about the evils of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Or you could go to this meeting and learn about Fort Worth's difficult choice: Should the natural gas drillers who have blanketed the city with wells be allowed to discard their millions of gallons of wastewater by forcing it back underground through disposal wells within Fort Worth's boundaries?

Does it matter? Probably not a whole lot, really -- unless a disposal well ends up near your home.

Then you might worry about things like how near it will be, how noisy it will be, what kind of traffic impact it will have and whether it will foul the air in your neighborhood.

Even if none are near your home, you might worry about that much water going to waste when North Texas and the rest of the state are suffering from such a terrible drought.

Or maybe earthquakes worry you. Some people say there's reason to believe these deep disposal wells might be behind increased seismic activity in North Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and other states.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/01/12/3656161/gas-drillings-waste-has-become.html#storylink=cpy