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Controversy Over Drilling Continues in Gardendale 8/23/11

Beau Berman
CBS 7 News
bberman@cbs7.com
August 23, 2011

Gardendale, Texas -

Drilling continues to draw controversy in Gardendale where a group of residents is now forming their own organization and television channel to "hold an oil company accountable".

Some thought the drilling controversy was over when the incorporation was voted down in May, but according to one group of citizens, it’s all just beginning.

It's the newest news station in the Permian Basin, made up of some Gardendale residents who say they're trying to hold an oil company accountable.

The amateur news reports and an accompanying website make up a small-scale PR campaign aimed at Berry Petroleum.

"We formed an organization called the Gardendale Accountability Project to specifically hold accountable Berry Petroleum and any other drilling companies that show up on our property", says Dan Boggs.

Boggs is one of many residents who've long complained of problems with drilling in Gardendale.

“GARDAP” as it's called, features You Tube videos showing Berry’s activity in Gardendale, including a property staked for drilling not far from a church and dogs stuck in mud pits that may be filled with chemicals.

Joe Paul Wood took samples from a mud pit on his property and had them independently tested.

The results showed the carcinogen, Benzene, at levels far above those allowed by the EPA.

But there's a catch.

"Everything that's in that pit has been exempted from the safe drinking water act, the clean air act, all those things that were put in place to protect us. That's what we're upset about”, says Wood.

After Texas Railroad Commission reps came out to the site and couldn't do anything, GARDAP took action, writing a letter to Berry and making a video.

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