Posts Tagged ‘natural gas’
Evolution of a Rebel
Despite threats and abuse, Sharon Wilson has become a one-woman resource for the anti-fracking movement.PETER GORMAN
Don’t mess with Texas — TXSharon, that is, to use her online moniker. That’s the lesson the shale gas drilling companies have been learning since they got horse-riding, pickup-driving, fifth-generation Texan single mom Sh...
Shale Game
A big chunk of the American economy is betting on the value of producible gas reserves that aren’t there.PETER GORMAN, PHOTOS BY LEE CHASTAIN
The early days of the shale gas boom around Fort Worth were heady ones. Chesapeake tossed money around as if it were limitless. Need a new museum of science and history? They helped cover it. A sponsor for the annual Thanksgivi...
Valentine’s Day Opportunity To Impress Your Date
Jeff PrinceValentine’s Day is Thursday, and what better way to swoon your sweetie than to have lunch at Avoca Coffee, stare deeply into said sweetie’s eyes, and say, “My darling, a January analysis by the state’s elect...
Burnt Orange You Ashamed?
STATICYou have to credit the University of Texas at Austin for being consistent — consistently sleazy. In June 2011, the school’s website described how UT’s Energy Institute would review the natural gas industry’s fracking pr...
Serious about Solar
Are the stars aligning for renewable energy in Texas?GAYLE REAVES
North Texas, along with the rest of the country, is in the midst of yet another summer of record-breaking heat. The demand on the state’s electrical grid is so heavy that regulators around the country are worried about overlo...
Vapors Sicken Arlington
Complaints of illnesses from fracking fall on deaf ears.PETER GORMAN
Residents of several Arlington neighborhoods where Chesapeake Energy is drilling for natural gas claim the vapor clouds released by certain stages of the operations are making them sick — and they’re challenging the company...
Texas Sharon Takes On Range Resources
Jeff PrinceTexas Sharon via her blog site Bluedaze has been exposing the natural gas industry’s heavy-handedness for years. She’s this area’s version of Erin Brockovich, taking on rich corporate polluters with little mor...
Mother Jones Bends Fort Worth Over Knee
Jeff PrinceNonprofit news organization Mother Jones is spanking Fort Worth and Texas in this story for allowing the oil and gas industry to use millions upon millions of gallons of water to drill for natural gas while the state is stagger...
New York Times Reveals Gas Drilling Hocus Pocus
Jeff PrinceThe natural gas industry is compared to Enron and the dot.com bust, characterized as a Ponzi scheme, and said to be built on shaky economics in this well-researched New York Times article and this follow-up over the weekend. Th...