Mineral-rights owners urge Hurst to ease drilling rules
Tim Valentine shouted at about 200 people Tuesday evening in a Hurst Conference Center meeting room.
“By show of hands, who would like to see gas drilling go forward in Hurst?” he asked.
Hands went up everywhere. Someone else shouted that, come the next municipal election, she would remember what happened during the just-concluded City Council work session on Hurst’s gas drilling ordinance.
The crowd showed up at the work session after many mineral-rights owners received letters or phone calls from Chesapeake Energy encouraging them to attend. Valentine said people were disappointed when there wasn’t a public hearing where they could talk.
The meeting was a work session called to let the council discuss three issues related to the drilling ordinance, City Manager Allan Weegar said. It was not a council session. And the intent of the meeting was not to open the ordinance to dramatic changes, he said.
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