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I got the INTERVIEW!
I got the PROMOTION!
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I got the CAR!
I got the GOOD NEWS!
I got the APARTMENT!
I gotta Blessing with my NAME ON IT!
CLAIM IT IN MARCH.
@WallStreetApes It’s literally one bad thing after another, this is awful! Who would ever allow this? Oh that’s right, all the criminals running everything
@UglySherman85@WallStreetApes Projected within 5 months all the trees will be dead. Our water supply for a spread of multiple counties will be depleted. Gone. Maybe this will help
@WallStreetApes I was at the Contest meeting today. I think that entire board is compromised. These applications to drill were submitted the summer of 2024. They have kept this under wraps until a month ago.
@WallStreetApes We East Texans have a great example of the impact of these wells in the Vista Ridge project. Same aquifer, 16B gallons per year for 7 years now, 100'+ drop in well water of surrounding counties and falling.
A billion dollar company backed by hedge funds is planning on pumping 15 BILLION gallons of water out of a Texas aquifer per year. This will have devastating consequences
🚨 The man who owns the company was on the board of the groundwater district that reviews the permits
“Small town corruption and greed and good old boys in Texas making deals that sell out their very own neighbors and communities.
— That's exactly what's happening right now in rural East Texas, and hardly anyone's talking about it. But I'm not afraid to spill the tea and name names. So let's get into it. A company backed by a billionaire hedge fund from out of town is trying to come in and drill roughly 30 industrial wells into the Carrizo Wilcox aquifer.
If approved, this would pull roughly 15 billion with a B gallons of water out of that aquifer per per year. This is the same aquifer that thousands upon thousands of people across several different counties rely on for their water. And those 15 billion gallons of water that would be pulled out every year isn't going to go to our families and our farms and our schools and our communities.
That water would be piped out and sold to fuel, development and other areas of the state, leaving us to deal with the consequences. Water levels will drop, pressure will drop, and wells will run dry.
This is our only water source for our families, for our livestock, for our ranches, farms, schools, and everything else in our communities. But here's the kicker, and here's where that corruption and greed comes in.
The well drilling company that was hired to drill all of these industrial wells for this project is owned by a man named Donald A. Foster. And up until just yesterday, Donald Foster was on the board of the groundwater district that reviews these permits.
This is obviously a huge conflict of interest, but it gets worse.
Texas law requires that board members with a financial conflict recuse themselves from all discussions and decisions regarding that issue. But I've been digging through public records, including minutes from this board's meetings over the last year and a half, and these public records do not show that Donald Foster recused himself.
Public records show that Donald Foster was present during discussions of this project and even participated in enclosed sessions where this project was discussed. During one meeting, there was even a vote on whether or not to consult with a hydrologist for these permits for these wells.
And it does not show that Donald Foster recused himself or abstained from that vote. In fact, it looks like he voted and it passed unanimously.
Now, in April 2025, he did abstain from one vote. The board was voting to accept the applications for these permits as administratively complete elite, and he did not participate in that vote. He did abstain.
— Donald Foster resigned from that board yesterday. But you don't get to sit in secret meetings and rubber stamp billion dollar water grabs that line your pockets and then try to get out of the hot seat at the last minute.
Not when it's our land, our wells, and our lives all on the line. I guess the people who actually live here were never supposed to notice, let alone fight back. But we did notice. We did find out what you were doing. And we're not just going to roll over and take it.
We will not let our communities be drained, silenced and sold. At least not without a fight.”