Posts Tagged ‘oil’
A Thorn for Trans-Canada
Damage to her creek has only hardened one woman’s opposition to the tar sands pipeline.PETER GORMAN
TransCanada, the giant energy firm building a pipeline from Oklahoma to the Texas coast as part of a project that would carry tar sands bitumen all the way from Canada, is finding more fight in some Texas landowners than the co...
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...
Drawing a Line in the (Tar) Sand
Protests in Texas delay the Keystone pipeline while opposition to it grows.PETER GORMAN
It was a dreary late- September morning in the East Texas woods outside of Winnsboro, chill and drizzly. Everything was wet or damp except for the spirits of four young people sitting in a tree stand. They were perched 30 feet ...
Over Exposure
StaticHollywood stars often take a drubbing for their liberal views, but they don’t all lean left. Take North Texan Janine Turner, for instance. She earned fame in Northern Exposure and other TV shows before ditching Hollywood and ...
Will Blair’s “Footloose”
GalleryWe’re always glad to hear more from coffeehouses with art shows. This Saturday Avoca Coffee is hosting an opening reception for artist Will Blair, whose canvases that mix encaustic, acrylic, oil, and spray paint will hang in ...
The New Thirty Years’ War
A global energy struggle has begun that will reshape our world — and North Texas is one of the battlegrounds.Michael T. Klare
A 30-year war for energy pre-eminence? You wouldn’t wish it even on a desperate planet. But that’s where we’re headed.
Feed a Cabin Fever
Chow, BabyLast week’s icy roads and rolling blackouts (no TV for several minutes at a time!) meant that homebound Chow, Baby actually had to turn to books for entertainment while (the whiny tone spikes here) it cooked for itself using ...
Unmasking the Polluters
Wilma Subra could make great money in industry; instead, she works for threatened communities.Story and photos BY WENDY LYONS SUNSHINE
Every few months, Edgar Mouton, 76, gets jolted out of sleep in the middle of the night by a loud horn blast. The sound is a warning: One of 14 industrial facilities nearby has belched out too much pollution into the air.
Of Bongs and BP
Fight government regulation if you want, but don’t get your smoke signals crossed.E.R. BILLS
These days it seems like you can’t throw a rock in Aledo without hitting a proponent of free markets, laissez faire, and the notion that it’s every man, woman, and child for him- or herself. These folks want corporations un...
The U.S. Economy: Still a House of Cards
GAYLE REAVESSo, jobless numbers are beginning to look a little better, housing foreclosures are leveling off, financial reforms are battling their way through Congress, and the government bailout, as painful as it was, seems to have helped...