Posts Tagged ‘transcanada’
Unfunny Keystone Capers
STATICThe southern leg of the Keystone Pipeline came this much closer to being a done deal when owner TransCanada brought in a trackhoe last week and began to tear up a strip of the Crawford family farm in Sumner, Texas. According to...
Opposition — like the Tar Sands — Runneth Over
STATICAs the tar sands spill in Arkansas — brought to you by Exxon — continues to poison the neighborhood, wetlands and now parts of formerly bucolic Lake Conway, news coverage of the spill and cleanup effort has diminished to al...
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...
A Tar Sands Manifesto
RAMSEY SPRAGUEThe mornings start off frosty. Four months ago, in the August heat, waking with the sun was still a muggy, sweaty pleasure. Late summer in Texas is a test of wills, but so too is a Texas winter spent in tents. Living like this,...
Down But Not Out
The fight to stop the tar sands pipeline continues in East Texas.PETER GORMAN
The last of the Tar Sands Blockade tree-sitters voluntarily climbed down from their perches in Winnsboro just before Christmas, after maintaining their post in the path of the East Texas portion of the Keystone XL pipeline for ...
Don’t Tell it to This Marine
STATICOnce the stuff gets on you, it’s hard to get off. The “stuff” is tar sands bitumen, the hydrocarbon that TransCanada is working on bringing down from Alberta, Canada, to Houston’s refineries and from there to Port Arthu...
This Tree Is Your Tree, This Tree Is My Tree
STATICWhen a small group of people began protesting construction of the southern leg of the Keystone Pipeline — which will carry dangerous Canadian tar sand bitumen from Cushing, Okla., to Houston and Port Arthur — they were ...
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 ...
Your Land is My Land …
Keystone pipeline company runs roughshod over Texas landowners – and maybe Texas law.PETER GORMAN
When someone from the TransCanada company asked the Crawford family in 2008 about an easement to lay pipeline across their farm on the Texas bank of the Red River, the family wasn’t interested. The Crawfords thought that woul...
Washington Math
StaticThe letter from U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in response to a query was nice, but, um, factually challenged. Topic: the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would run from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico (via Texas). Problem: Hutchison...