Texas Cities Wouldn’t Be Able to Ban Oil Drilling Under Bill
The Texas State Capitol building stands past cars and pedestrians crossing the street at dusk in Austin, Texas, U.S., on Saturday, April 4, 2015.
Photographer: Matthew Busch/BloombergThis article is for subscribers only.
Texas cities would no longer be able to ban oil and gas companies from drilling inside municipal limits under a bill lawmakers sent to Governor Greg Abbott.
Final passage of the legislation in the state Senate on Monday is a win for the oil and gas companies. The industry considered the measure one of its top priorities of the year after a suburb of Dallas voted to ban fracking, the process of using water, sand and chemicals underground to break up rock and free trapped oil and gas.