Boone files for Panhandle Groundwater board

Boone Pickens has filed for a seat on the nine-member Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District board. He's voted in Roberts County since 2003, which makes him eligible. Boone says he'll concern himself with fairness in metering and allowed production.

His challenger is Roberts County resident Steve Hale, who himself led a group of landowners in a 2003 attempt to sell production permits for 150,000 acres without a buyer.

Here's what Boone says:
"During the past decade, I have worked diligently to make dramatic improvements in the area through a variety of conservation and wildlife initiatives, and by helping increase property values throughout the county by ensuring landowners have the right to market their stranded and surplus groundwater."

Stranded and surplus fossil water, indeed.