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Texas Railroad commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones submits Barnett-happy op-ed to Wall Street Journal
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Elizabeth Ames Jones (R) from San Antonio was first elected into the Texas Legislature in 2000. In 2005, she was appointed by the governor to serve on the Railroad Commission of Texas. The Wall Street Journal today published an opinion editorial written by Jones, entitled "How Texas Struck it Rich Beneath Suburbia." Jones touts Texas and the Barnett Shale as being a model for how energy policy in the country should play out.
What I've seen is that while Congress balks at drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska out of fear of disturbing a few caribou, we've moved ahead to safely tap into an energy reserve located underneath suburban homes... In Texas, we have an energy plan that works because it relies on the ingenuity of the people to provide safe, reliable energy.
On elizabethamesjones.com, Commissioner Jones is described as "a stalwart defender of homeowners’ and private property rights." Perhaps she should pick up from Austin and talk to some of the homeowners in and around the Barnett Shale with rigs in their backyards and start defending some of their rights. Just a thought.
Posted by Erin
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