Energy Sector

How the Bastards Win: A Greedy Lying Bastards Review

EPA: Dallas-based Luminant Produces a Hell of A Lot of Greenhouse Gas, And So Does Fracking

The Environmental Protection Agency -- that scourge of freedom-loving Texans -- just released a nifty little interactive greenhouse-gas database that will almost certainly threaten your liberty, the free market and the Second Amendment, somehow. For starters, the data it compiled indicates Dallas- ... More >>

Judge Punts on Landowner's Keystone Pipeline Challenge

The Nacogdoches judge who granted a Douglass landowner's request for a temporary restraining order against the Keystone pipeline back in November now is telling him to take his case to another court. County Court at Law Judge Jack Sinz ruled last week that he could not hear Mike Bishop's fraud case ... More >>

There Will Be Tar Sand

Tarry Canadian bitumen is barreling its way to Texas via the Keystone XL pipeline. Will it bring energy independence or environmental calamity?

The 10 Most Corrupt Tax Loopholes

If Mitt Romney won't tell you which need to be closed, we will

Irving-based ExxonMobil's Allegedly Ageist Pilot Retirement Policy Survives Federal Challenge

A six-year court battle waged by the feds against an ExxonMobil policy mandating the retirement of all corporate pilots at the age of 60 was dealt its second defeat in a Dallas federal court. The challenge, filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, characterized the policy as ageist and ... More >>

Tiny East Texas Towns Join Fight Against Keystone Pipeline. Should Dallas?

Together, they have a population of fewer than 2,000, but the tiny East Texas hamlets of Reklaw, Alto and Gallatin have an outsized mission: To halt the southern portion of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline, a conduit designed to ferry some 830,000 barrels of Canadian tar sands a day from an Oklaho ... More >>

ExxonMobil CEO: Burning Fossil Fuels Causes Climate Change, But Energy Independence Is Still Complete Bullshit

We at Unfair Park will never, ever tire of hearing Rex Tillerson, the CEO of Irving-based ExxonMobil, the largest private oil and gas company in the world, admit that the product he peddles has in fact caused the earth's climate to change. This is the corporation that has for decades bankrolled a c ... More >>

In Completely Unsurprising News, Protesters Protest Exxon Mobil Shareholders Meeting

There are many reasons lots of folks hate Exxon Mobil: It makes about as much profit in 35 seconds as the average U.S. household makes in a year; it gets humongous tax breaks from the U.S. government; it bankrolled anti-climate change "research" that set debate on the issue back decades; it charges ... More >>

Southwest Airlines' Herb Kelleher: Energy Independence, As You Understand It, Is A Myth

Southwest Airlines co-founder Herb Kelleher and a gaggle of other titans, from former U.S. Spec Ops commanders to Sam Gilliland, chief executive officer of Dallas-based Sabre Holdings, reject outright the idea that we can drill our way to energy independence. In an Energy Security Leadership Council ... More >>

Clean Electricity Bill Could Be A Bonanza For Shale Barons

A senator from New Mexico has proposed a bill that could change the face of Texas electric generation. And it has another interesting side-effect: It could reinvigorate a shale gas play depressed by tanking prices. U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committ ... More >>

Fear and Fracking in Southlake

In one of America's wealthiest suburbs, an unlikely band of drilling opponents helped drive away the world's biggest energy companies. Did they save the town or ruin it?

Water Rights Policies At the TCEQ Could Affect Your Lunch

It's tough being a gulf oyster. The BP oil spill devastated Louisiana oyster beds, and then a historic Texas drought reduced river flows into Galveston Bay, seriously increasing the bay's salinity. Predators and disease are thriving and threatening the already hobbled industry. Now the Texas Commis ... More >>

Is That a Gun Under Your Dress, Sir? Because We Know Those Are Panties On Your Head.

What do you need to know about this video sent out by the Dallas Police Department? Well, let's see. The stick-em-up in question took place yesterday at around 5:25 in the morning at the Exxon TigerMart at 2503 Lemmon, which is right off of N. Central Expressway. And, per the DPD:The suspect is seen ... More >>

Here's Why Ron Natinsky Excused Himself When Council Talk Turned to XTO Energy

​Before the Dallas City Council voted to back Dave Neumann Wednesday and wait till October to vote on XTO Energy's gas drilling proposals, we did get a little more insight into where the council stands right now. Angela Hunt, for instance, mentioned why she was for extending the city's leases to X ... More >>

Lawyer Says Dallas Woman Sued Halliburton After She Violated "Policy Against Procreation"

The Dallas case is one of many attorney Todd Kelly has brought against Halliburton.​A Dallas woman filed suit against Halliburton last week claiming she was fired after her supervisors learned she was pregnant. In court documents filed on December, 21, Lynda Darden alleges she was fired in the sum ... More >>

Turnips, Happy Meals and Tainted Eggs: The Year's 10 Biggest National Food Stories

​Food lovers must talk with their mouths full, since there was plenty of discussion of many, many food-related topics in 2010. But a few national stories struck us as most important. Let us know what you think. 1. The food safety bill The massive food safety bill had been left for dead when the ... More >>

Local Musicians To Host Benefit For The Gulf Coast at Lola's in Fort Worth on Thursday

​July 1 marks another hot, run-of-the-mill day for us here in North Texas, but for the folks directly affected by the oil spill in the Gulf, it's another day without work. And some DFW musicians have decided to do something about it--namely, they'll be teaming up with venues all over the country t ... More >>

Did Joe Barton Have a Point?

Jon Stewart Doesn't Like Joe Barton, and He's Not Impressed With Rex Tillerson Either

​No doubt by now you've heard all about Rep. Joe Barton of Arlington telling BP chief exec Tony Hayward how sorry he is -- how so so so so so sorry he is -- that President Obama shook him down for a $20 billion "slush fund." And by slush fund, he meant dough to be doled out to those in the Gulf Co ... More >>

In England, Outrage Over ExxonMobil's Continued Ties to Climate-Change Skeptics

Beginning in 2006, 'round the time Rex Tillerson replaced Lee Raymond as CEO of Irving-based ExxonMobil, the company said it would cut funding to public-policy groups whose policy it was to deny in public the existence of climate change and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Last year, mat ... More >>

Fueling Up at Lunch at La Paisanita Taqueria is a Gas

Texaco: Fill Up With Gas--From the Tacos, Not Petrol

Chewing the Fat: Spilling The Bills

You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

Going Dow, Dow, Down: Localizing the Stock Market Plunge

Ever Been to the "Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metropolitan Division"?

Shareholders' Proposals Run Out of Gas at Exxon Shindig at Meyerson

Before Tomorrow's Shareholder Showdown, Exxon Severs Some Ties

Protests Are a Gas, Gas, Gas

Rockefeller Heirs Demand Exxon Look to the Future

A Little Funk and Folk With Your "Bush Lied" Chants This Afternoon

What's It Feel Like to Pocket $40 Billion In a Year? Dunno. Ask ExxonMobil.

Two Years Later, the Book (or Chapter, Really) on That ExxonMobil Protest

Plaza of the Unamerican, Anyone?

What Pickens is Pickin'

Is That Gas or Indigestion at Exxon?

TXU, The Buyout and the Power of "Greenmail"

Spare Climate Change

ExxonMobil: The Company You Hate to Love to Hate

An Artful Trek

14th Street honors Halliburton’s Journey

Gassed Up and Ready to Protest

Net Gain or Net Loss?

Damn Commies

The Right's Stuff

A Texas-based band of conservative warriors tackles the left on its own turf--the street

Best Pit Stop

Lakewood Mobil

Red Scare

Dallas County is setting up a surveillance system a Commie would love

Bill Due

Why did the DMN kill a story about political favoritism? Guess right and win!

Pumped Out

Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed

Whizzing inside the tent

ExxonMobil shareholders use their stock to push a corporate giant toward change

The shallow end

Personal vendettas drain Dallas' wading pools for poor kids