The Buried Treasure In My Backyard

摘要

Dear landowner "the letter began. "as you may be aware, it is not necessary to have a large amount of acreage to profit from a gas unit...."rnOh no, I thought The Barnett Shale has finally tracked me down.rnEight years ago my husband and I went house-rnhunting near Fort Worth, Texas, and discovered a woodsy middle-class neighborhood where woodpeckers hammered in the trees, hawksrnkeened overhead, and armadillos made cameo appearances. The setting was so bucolic that we overlooked a string of electrical towers that ran along the neighborhood park and bought a home. It wasn't until we moved in and received a safety notice in the mail that we realized a gas pipeline lies 800 feet from our front door, buried under the nearby park and between our neighbors' manicured yards.