The NY Times Article
here.

CATARINA, Tex. — Until last year, the 17-mile stretch of road
between this forsaken South Texas village and the county seat of Carrizo Springs
was a patchwork of derelict gasoline stations and rusting warehouses. Now the
region is in the hottest new oil play in the country, with giant oil terminals
and sprawling RV parks replacing fields of mesquite. More than a dozen companies
plan to drill up to 3,000 wells around here in the next 12 months.

The Texas field, known as the Eagle Ford, is just one of about 20 new onshore
oil fields that advocates say could collectively increase the nation’s oil
output by 25 percent within a decade — without the dangers of drilling in the
deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico or the delicate coastal areas off Alaska.

There is only one catch: the oil from the Eagle Ford and similar fields of
tightly packed rock can be extracted only by using hydraulic fracturing, a
method that uses a high-pressure mix of water, sand and hazardous chemicals to
blast through the rocks to release the oil inside.

They have been fracking for natural gas in Zapata county for as
long as we've been going there. That's why we have roads that we can get
retrieved on. Even if they are behind locked gates.