Qualifications: What training, experience and characteristics qualify you for this position?
Natural Gas Facility Weatherization: What further changes, if any, are needed to ensure that Texas has sufficient power in times of extreme weather conditions?
Emissions: What impact does flaring from oil and gas wells have on climate change, and what is the role of the Railroad Commission in reducing the amount of flared gas from oil and gas wells in Texas?
Seismic Activity: How can the Railroad Commission reduce the risk of seismic activity or earthquakes caused by water disposal from oil and gas drilling?
Ethics: Since candidates for Railroad Commission often raise money and receive income from the oil and gas industry, how can citizens be assured that those donations and income will not influence how commissioners regulate the industry?
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Petra Reyes
11+ years in oil and gas businesses.
Proper criteria for which producers and entities truly have critical load.
Flaring does not have nearly as much impact on climate change as does the current “green” energy production companies. The narrative has been guided by non-industry people or perhaps even those whom have alternative agendas.
Adapting solutions that have already proven themselves. There is not a one-size fits all solution to this problem or even for an entire area where these seismic activities are occurring. We need to bring in the SME’s that have been notifying the RRC for years of the threats. Policy and plans exist and we need to implement those existing regulations before an external party comes in and enforces a leftist overcorrection.
They should not be allowed to own any operating interest in wells they regulate. Or any wells at that.
