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Energy Sector

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Rep. Ralph Hall From Rockwall Is Turning 89, Will Do Keg-Stands with Rick Perry, T. Boone Pickens, Harlan Crow

    Congressman Ralph Hall, the near-nonagenarian, oldest serving member of Congress, who was elected to things five years after World War II ended, just turned 89 years old. What do you give the man who has everything -- a powerful committee chair; a devilish sense of humor (he loves Mormons!); and a f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    The Big Electricity Question: How Much Are Dry Nuts Worth?

    As Brantley pointed out yesterday, the Texas Public Utility Commission got down to hard numbers last week as it inched further toward what appears to be inevitable -- a huge increase in the current $3,000 per megawatt-hour cap on the price of wholesale electricity during times when demand is high. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Shippin' Shale: Energy Independence Means Exporting It So We Can Import It. Got That?

    Yeah, it doesn't make sense to us either. A couple of weeks ago we asked if America could stop pretending that politicians and their benefactors in the energy industry actually give two shits about "energy independence" or "energy security," or any of the other portent-laden, focus-grouped catch phr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Shippin' Shale, or: What's That You Say About Our Energy Independence?

    ​The days of lease-bearing landmen making it rain on the Barnett Shale are over. The industry became so proficient at fracturing the rock thousands of feet beneath the surface and extracting the gas trapped within that they glutted the market. Gas prices took a swan dive and have stagnated eve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Roll Red Tide: Still No Good News for Oyster Lovers from the Coastlines of Texas

    Steven Doyle​Red tide, the naturally occurring algae bloom that causes toxicity in shellfish, continues to plague the state's coastline -- keeping Texas oysters out of local restaurants and threatening the $18.5 million Texas oyster industry. The state closed the entire coast of Texas to oyst ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Didn't Take Long at All For Perot Museum of Nature & Science to Make Its (Big, Big) Money

    Photo by Anna MerlanApparently, this is how you announce you've raised $185 million a year earlier than expected.​For days we've been promised a major announcement today from the Perot Museum of Nature & Science; as in, said the week's worth of press releases, "a MAJOR announcement" would be m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Local Anti-Gas Drilling Activist Catches Execs Pushing PSYOP to Deal With "Insurgency"

    ​Last week, during an oil-and-gas drilling confab at the Hyatt Regency in Houston, execs turned their attention to a very touchy subject: how to get folks decidedly against gas drilling on their side. At which point, according to audio first obtained by CNBC earlier this week, gas-drilling spo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    As Council Was to Take Up L.B. Houston Gas Drilling, It Retreated Behind Closed Doors

    From today's council agenda​Council just wrapped discussing that police helicopter sale; Sandy Greyson, concerned about terrorist what-ifs, wanted it pulled from the consent agenda for further discussion, but the sale sailed through. This item's about something a little further down the agenda. As ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Dallas's Gas Drilling Task Force to Begin Meetings With Overview From Fort Worth

    Via.​This morning the city posted the agenda for the first-ever meeting of the Gas Drilling Task Force, which kicks off Tuesday at 2 p.m., don't be late. The agenda's mostly a bunch of introductory what-whats: Chair Lois Finkelman will give some opening remarks, outline its scope and schedule, rev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    In Legislature's Final Days, Lawmakers Extend Court Protections for Polluters

    Rep. Dennis Bonnen​Amid these "late nights and high feelings" of the tail end of the 82nd Texas Legislature, House lawmakers took a little time to pay the bills yesterday, tying up one last niggling loophole that was letting property owners sue polluters that were contaminating their land. As it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Gas Drilling Activists Not Happy With Council Component of Task Force Caraway's Assembled

    Photo by Patrick MichelsRay Crawford and his petition signed by those opposed to gas drilling in the Dallas city limuts​As we noted a couple of weeks back, Dallas City Hall's taking applications for the gas-drilling task force Angela Hunt demanded after Dave Neumann failed to make good on his prom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Want to Be on Dallas's Gas Drilling Task Force?

    ​After council member Angela Hunt pushed the city council to form the gas drilling task force Dave Neumann only talked about, it's time to assemble the dream team: Moments ago, Dallas City Hall sent word that it's taking applications from those interested in serving on the task force. For those wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Environmentalists, NAACP Unite To Ask Council For Strong Gas Drilling Task Force

    Photos by Patrick MichelsRaymond Crawford unfurls a 21-foot scroll of signatures from folks concerned with gas drilling in Dallas during this morning's press conference..​It's The Big Day today for gas drilling activists here at City Hall, and as Robert mentioned yesterday, the environmentalist se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Natural Gas Drilling Continues to Define Council Battle Between Dave Neumann and Scott Griggs

    Photo by Sam MertenDave Neumann (left) and Scott Griggs (right) at their first debate in late February.​From the beginning of last night's forum at the Avalon at Kessler Park, questions from the crowd of nearly 100 District 3 residents focused squarely on natural gas drilling and incumbent cit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Mayor Caraway Says He's Got That Whole Gas Drilling Task Force Thing Covered

    ​A few weeks ago, as you'll no doubt recall, Angela Hunt called for the formation of a gas drilling task force that would consist of no fewer than 10 people, among them experts well versed in the subject of fracking, neighborhood residents impacted by XTO Energy's requests to drill near Hensley Fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Council Member Angela Hunt Spells Out Demands for City's Gas Drilling Task Force

    ​Patrick Michels, our gas-drillin' expert, is presently at the Hunt Oil Building for that Woodall Rodgers Deck Park press conference -- which, turns out, is worth $9 million (no wonder Mayor Tom's Mayor Tom till tomorrow). So, then, I'll share with you a memo council member Angela Hunt sent to her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    While Council Studies Gas Drilling Safety, Plan Commission's Taking One More Look At Another Proposal from XTO Energy

    ​Seems like just yesterday the City Plan Commission took up XTO Energy's second application for a specific use permit for gas drilling on city land -- this time along Camp Wisdom Road near Joe Pool Lake -- and quickly put off its decision for three months.But that was November, and here we are thr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Once More Into the Frack: Council Considers Changes for Disposal Well at DFW Airport

    Chesapeake EnergyA diagram from "Ask Chesapeake" shows a disposal well for spent fracking fluid, down into the Ellenburger Formation underneath the Barnett Shale.​If you thought you'd heard the last from the City Council on gas drilling for a while, well, think again.Originally, the council was go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    At City Hall, A New Lease for XTO's Drilling Plans and An Update on Dallas' Budget Shortfall

    Hensley Field, where XTO Energy hopes to begin Dallas' first gas drilling operation.​I'm wedged into the corner of the briefing room at City Hall -- no complaints, because really, Brad Watson needs his legroom. The council's running through its various opening proclamations -- Delia Jasso just in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Gas Drilling Variances Denied Near Grapevine Lake, While A Pair of Federal Suits Allege Water Contamination from Barnett Shale Fracking

    ​Worries about groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing around the Barnett Shale got a fresh wave of attention yesterday -- first with a pair of federal suits filed in Dallas, and then with the Town of Flower Mound's denial of a request to drill near to Grapevine Lake. Keystone Energy w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Liveblogging's A Gas at City Hall, As Plan Commission Denies XTO's Drill Site Application

    Flickr user Schlüsselbein2007Mountain Creek Lake in far western Oak Cliff, which could be the site of Dallas's first gas drilling operation.​[Update at 6:45: To spare you the trouble of reading all the way through, here's the news. With a 7-6 vote, the commission denied XTO Energy's application f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Liveblogging as the City Plan Commission Hears from the People on Gas Drilling and Food Trucks

    This guy didn't make it to City Hall this afternoon, but plenty more folks have something to say about new gas drilling sites in Dallas.​We're down in the big room at City Hall, where the City Plan Commission's taken over the big boy chairs and taped their nametags over the City Council's placards ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    Waiting on a Buyer, Dallas-Based Chief Oil Plans To Start Drilling in the City By Year's End

    Last week around this time, the Wall Street Journal was telling us about three very private oil and gas companies -- two of them based in Dallas -- with designs on getting bigger in the gas drilling world. So, to help take their operations up a notch, both Talon Oil & Gas and Chief Oil & Gas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    As Natural Gas Drilling Spreads East Into Dallas, A New Activist Group Is Born

    Patrick MichelsNo word yet on whether this guy'll turn up again at tonight's meeting.The natural gas industry's slow creep toward Dallas over the Barnett Shale has launched a small army of activists in Fort Worth's exurbs, from small-town mayors to goat fromagers -- a well-organized crew that's gott ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Holy Death!? Inside the Pleasant Grove Factory Pouring Mystical Candles for the World's Altars

    Photos by Brandon Thibodeaux​Of all the didn't-quite-make-it-into-the-story facts I discovered while researching the botánica biz for this week's cover story on Chango Botánica in Oak Cliff, one of the most interesting discoveries was that many of the candles sold on the shelves of area botánic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    100 Favorite Dishes: Asado De Puerco Rojo At Chitos

    ​As a countdown to the Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas" 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can be eaten on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    City Says It's Serious About Cleaning Up One Beleaguered NW Dallas Intersection

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • News

    March 26, 2009

    The T. Boone Pickens Alternative Energy Show Rolls Across America

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2008

    Feeling Gassy!

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2008

    All Shale Tracy Rowlett!

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2008

    Airline Execs Now Have Common Enemy: Goddamned Oil Speculators!

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 10, 2008

    Tracy Rowlett on Selling the Shale: "Chesapeake is Just the Sponsor."

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2007

    Earth Biofuels' "Substantial" Self-Doubt

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2007

    Ray Hunt: Elevating Tensions Since 1974

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2007

    "A Going Concern." You Could Say That.

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2007

    Earth Biofuels: Going, Going ... Gone?

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2007

    Forbes: Adios, Earth Biofuels.

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2007

    Does Earth Biofuels Have an Empty Tank? Forbes Thinks So, Again.

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2006

    Pretty Spokeswoman

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2006

    Of Nelsons Willie and Don

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2006

    That's a Gas

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • News

    October 7, 2004

    Letters

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • News

    July 22, 2004

    TX Eff U

    Plus: After Moses; Word Up

  • Dining

    February 20, 2003

    Funky Quarters

    Inwood Quarter Café mixes the seedy with the charming

  • News

    April 11, 2002

    House of Cards

    Enron's collapse may have been engineered from the top, but low-level employees played parts, too

  • Best of Dallas

    September 21, 2000

    Best Political Gaffe

    City council members wade into deep doo-doo

  • Dining

    June 29, 2000

    More pixie dust, please

    The Pegasus Room flies at low altitude

  • News

    May 15, 1997

    A Lot of Gas

    Wildcatter Sanford Dvorin thinks he's hit the jackpot in quaint Coppell. But skeptics say no one's ever made money drilling for natural gas in Dallas County, and no one ever will.

  • News

    October 10, 1996

    Don't cry for me, Amarillo

    T. Boone Pickens Jr. has lost millions, been booted out of his own company, and his wife wants a divorce. Miriam Rozen chronicles the downward spiral of the once-fearsome Learjet Cowboy.

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