Truth Nuke
Sep 26, 2026 · 11:16 PM UTC
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Welcome to my Ted Talk
Episode: What exactly does a Texas Railroad Commissioner do?
Inspired by stupid and uninformed people on the internet.
The job of Texas Railroad Commissioner DOES NOT monitor or fix Choo-Choo trains🚂 , nor do they fix or maintain railroad tracks ( you know you have seen those posts). It DOES NOT oversee roads/traffic, oil/gas leases or ROYALTY PAYMENTS, pipeline easements, noise, odors, WHITE NATIONALISM OR ISSUES OF IMMIGRATION, let alone any other HOT BED CULTURE WARS ISSUE outside of regulation of the oil/natural gas industry!!!
The three-member Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC), is a state agency that primarily regulates the oil and natural gas industry, pipelines, natural gas utilities, and related energy/mining activities.
Primary regulatory authority is over:
🛢️Oil and natural gas exploration, production, drilling permits, well operations, and plugging of inactive/orphaned wells.
🛢️Pipeline transporters and the natural gas/hazardous liquid pipeline industry (including safety).
🛢️Natural gas utilities (including rates for distribution to homes and businesses).
🛢️The LP-gas (propane) industry
🛢️Critical natural gas infrastructure (e.g., weatherization standards to help prevent outages).
🛢️Coal and uranium surface mining and reclamation.
🛢️Environmental protection related to these industries, public/community safety, prevention of waste of natural resources, and enforcement of rules (permits, fines, penalties).
🛢️The Commission also carries out certain federal responsibilities (e.g., under the Safe Drinking Water Act, Pipeline Safety Acts, and Surface Coal Mining Control and Reclamation Act).
Concerns within the industry that Bo French has ZERO PLATFORM FOR and REFUSES TO ADDRESS:
🛢️ Orphaned and inactive wells: Texas has roughly 12,000+ orphan wells (no solvent operator) and about 160,000 inactive wells that can become orphans if companies go bankrupt or disappear. The inventory has kept growing even as the RRC plugs more wells each year.
🛢️ Produced water and injection capacity: The Permian Basin produces 20–25 million barrels of wastewater per day alongside oil and gas. Most of it is injected underground. Injection volumes have soared, contributing to overpressurization, induced seismicity, and blowouts through old or poorly plugged wells
🛢️ Flaring and methane: Texas operators have flared enormous volumes of associated gas for years. The RRC continues to grant long-term flaring exceptions even while stating a desire to reduce routine flaring.
🛢️ Safety, weatherization, and cybersecurity: After Winter Storm Uri, the RRC gained authority over weatherization of critical natural-gas infrastructure that supplies power plants. Enforcement and inspection remain important for grid reliability. Pipeline safety and oilfield theft are additional operational priorities. In September 2026 the commission publicly highlighted growing cyber threats to energy infrastructure (including incidents involving tankers bound for Texas) and urged operators to strengthen defenses.
🛢️ Regulatory process and capacity: The agency faces pressure to modernize permitting and data systems, improve consistency of inspections, and manage a large workload with limited staff relative to the scale of Texas production. Lawmakers have also criticized recent changes that limited public comment at commission meetings. Funding for plugging and inspections is a recurring legislative issue.
BO FRENCH is UNQUALIFIED
Thank-you for attending my Ted Talk
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I just found out that Bob Duncan's buddy Robert Mace is on the Texas Water Development Board.
Bob went around telling ag leaders @TexasFarmBureau that farmers didn't own their groundwater and never did.
Mace went on tour stating the same drastic misrepresentation of centuries old Texas land law.
Mace is an advocate against our rights and against American land title law. His ideological conflict of interest disqualifies him from sitting any government position involving Texas water.
He quotes a little law to make it seem like he knows what he's talking about. He doesn't. Surface water rights are governed by Spanish law.
Groundwater by English law. He speaks as if all water, even rainwater, should be governed by all of his cute new ideas.
He's like a wannabe Rembrandt who doesn't know his primary colors.
It's cruelly ironic that the same law that governs groundwater also governs the oil and gas that funded the Meadows Foundation and Center at Texas State University.
@ogwausa @US_OGA
The endangered species act overlays all his new plans.
The endangered species act reverses the Christian priority of humans over the beasts, violates the rule of capture in wildlife, violates 13th A prohibition against involuntary servitudes, Kring v MO, and US Constitution Contracts Clause.
@electcharles @kevinsparkstx @KingForTexas @SellForTexas19
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