Berry Petroleum, a Delaware Corporation doing business in Texas, having acquired the approximately 12 square miles of mineral rights underneath Gardendale, Texas, and having an ongoing plan for mineral exploitation that includes the possible drilling of 300 plus wells within the community of Gardendale, and having displayed a modest but insufficient consideration for surface owners and residents is hereby notified of these Articles of Accountability.

GARDAP

Gardendale Accountability Project
  • BOHICA GARDENDALE, BOHICA When Berry Petroleum began their exploitation of our community they stated they had plans to drill on ’40 acre spacing’.  However, sometime later they admitted to drilling ‘test wells’ on 20 acre spacing. Their own website now states they may drill the original 140 wells on 40 acre spacing and an additional […]

  • The morning after our report of the tresspassers on the wide open land of a landowner in Gardendale (a cattleguard with no gate was installed) a gate was installed, apparently by a Berry subcontractor. The job appeared hurried as the photo shows. The gate appeared to be misaligned. No doubt Berry spent thousands of dollars […]

  • Berry spent good money having the cattleguard installed on this access road from Highway 158. Unfortunately the space between the fence and the ground on the sides of the cattleguard is large enough for a dog or other animal to squeeze through. Well, I suppose if the purpose of the entrance is to protect the […]

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