{"id":38265,"date":"2014-08-11T09:35:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=38265"},"modified":"2014-08-11T09:35:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:35:42","slug":"for-legacy-oil-family-facing-drought-its-conservation-or-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2014\/08\/11\/for-legacy-oil-family-facing-drought-its-conservation-or-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"For Legacy Oil Family Facing Drought, It\u2019s Conservation or Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Marfa Public Radio:<\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n
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Terry Wade \/ Reuters \/STRINGER \/LANDOV<\/p>

A rig contracted by Apache Corp drills a horizontal well in a search for oil and natural gas in the Wolfcamp shale located in the Permian Basin in West Texas.<\/p><\/div>\n

The latest drought monitor from the USDA shows about\u00a060% of Texas still suffering<\/a>\u00a0from a lack of rain and strained water resources.<\/p>\n\n

Lately there\u2019s been some\u00a0concern brewing<\/a>\u00a0in West Texas about towns, cities or landowners selling their water to oil and gas companies, and the\u00a0possibility of oil and gas development<\/a>\u00a0in the Big Bend.<\/p>\n

Some landowners argue they\u2019re conscious of how they treat the land, even if they do sell water for drilling, since after all, it\u2019s their land.<\/p>\n

In the latest issue of the environmental magazine\u00a0High Country News,<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>reporter Emily Guerin\u00a0profiles one legacy oil family<\/a>\u00a0in the Permian Basin that\u2019s keeping a close eye on the drought, and realizing in the process that it\u2019s either conservation or bust.<\/p>\n

We sat down with Guerin to talk about\u00a0the\u00a0Fasken Oil and Ranch Company\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0move to stop using fresh water for fracking.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s been around since 1913, when a Toronto-based lawyer named David Fasken bought up land along the Llano Estacado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Marfa Public Radio: The latest drought monitor from the USDA shows about\u00a060% of Texas still suffering\u00a0from a lack of rain and strained water resources. Lately there\u2019s been some\u00a0concern brewing\u00a0in West Texas about towns, cities or landowners selling their water to oil and gas companies, and the\u00a0possibility of oil and gas development\u00a0in the Big Bend. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[21,105],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38268,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38265\/revisions\/38268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}