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Writer's pictureNorth Shore Democrats of Travis County

Katherine Culbert for Railroad Commission; video available




 

By Mike Killalea, NSD president

The Railroad Commission of Texas is in dire need of reform, and Katherine Culbert is the woman to kick it off. Culbert addressed the NSD in September in an eye-opening presentation exposing our state’s feeble management of its immense oil and gas industry, and its impact on our health, environment, and the safety of its own workers.

 

Katherine Culbert is the Democratic candidate for the RRC, a race she characterizes as possibly the most important environmental election in the country.

 

A video of her presentation is available on NSD’s YouTube channel. The link is provided below.

 

There are three railroad commissioners. They are elected to SIX-YEAR terms. Currently, all three are Republicans.

 

The commissioners barely conduct their business in public, Culbert revealed. The cozy group will take only an hour to whiz through a 60-plus page agenda, she said.

 

“They have already decided when they walk in the door that they are going to pass everything on the agenda,” Culbert said.

 

“That is how the Railroad Commission is regulating our state,” she continued. “It’s horrible, it’s ridiculous, and we really need someone … in there asking questions.”

 

Questions like, how is this affecting our children, our health, our environment.

 

For example, in drilling new oil and gas wells, it’s usually necessary to “vent” or “flare” natural gas into the atmosphere. Frequently, oil companies request exceptions to Legislature-imposed time limits for flaring and venting.

 

Since 2021, some 8,000 applications for such exceptions were submitted to the RRC. A microscopic FOUR applications were denied. That’s a 99.95% approval rating.

 

The RRC was the model for OPEC. It stopped regulating railroads in 2005.

 

 

 

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