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May 8, 2013
Wait, Why in the Hell Did Facebook Donate Thousands of Dollars to Ted Cruz?
It's pretty frequent these days to experience Impotent Facebook Rage (IFR), in which the social media giant does something so profoundly irritating or angry-making that you immediately vow to get off the site altogether. And yet, you don't cancel your account cold turkey (or at least I don't), proba ... More >>
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April 29, 2013
Mike Bishop, Hellbent on Stopping the Keystone Pipeline, Sues the Corps of Engineers
Earlier this year we introduced you to Mike Bishop, the irascible ex-Marine with 20 acres in the path of the Keystone pipeline, just east of Nacogdoches. When we met him, the retired chemist and bio-fuel tinkerer was livid, cataloging the insults to his land -- the 'dozed crops, the clear-cut woods ... More >>
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April 23, 2013
In the Wake of Spills, the EPA is Urging Tighter Review of the Proposed Keystone Pipeline
Back in March, the Keystone XL pipeline's approval looked practically assured. Construction of the 1,179-mile leviathan, connecting Alberta's tar sand mines with Texas Gulf Coast refiners, was already well underway in Texas. The State Department said Canadian tar sands production would proceed apace ... More >>
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April 10, 2013
Congressman Joe Barton Cites Noah's Flood as Proof People Aren't Causing Climate Change
Joe Barton, the Republican Congressman representing Arlington and its environs, has never been shy about expressing his skepticism about global warming. As chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, he launched an investigation into a pair of studies that documented a dramatic spike in glo ... More >>
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March 15, 2013
Wendy Davis Aims to Restrict Seizure of Private Land for Pipelines -- But Not the Keystone
You'd think in this state, property rights would be the inviolable bedrock around which damn near everything else revolves. You'd think eminent domain, the taking of private property for public use, would be invoked only when the common benefit of a railroad, a highway or a pipeline is so undeniable ... More >>
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March 4, 2013
State Department's New Keystone XL Pipeline Report Proves Battle to Stop Tar Sands Is Probably Already Lost
On Friday afternoon came the unheralded release of a pretty important preliminary analysis from the State Department regarding the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, a conduit for diluted bitumen mined in Alberta and destined for the Texas Gulf Coast petroleum refineries. The takeaway, however, has to ... More >>
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February 19, 2013
Keystone XL Pipeline Opposition Gets an Unlikely Ally: Rupert Freakin' Murdoch
Is Keystone Pipeline really good idea?Bringing lots of heavy, dirty oil across country, when fracked ,cheaper, cleaner energy available— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) February 15, 2013 Yeah, you read that right. Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News and The Wall Street Journal, wh ... More >>
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January 29, 2013
Native Americans Gathered Downtown Last Night to Protest Broken Treaties and a Tar Sands Pipeline
If you happened to be passing the corner of Akard and San Jacinto Monday night, the huge, blue LED lights spelling out "IDLE NO MORE" might have left you nonplussed. It was no coincidence that the demonstration, known as a light brigade, took place within a stone's throw of the Canadian consulate g ... More >>
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January 22, 2013
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 >>
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January 4, 2013
Protesters Are in the East Texas Trees Again to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
As of around 2:30 yesterday afternoon, two Keystone XL pipeline protesters were perched atop platforms strung through the trees in East Texas, aiming to block construction of what may soon become the longest pipeline in the Western Hemisphere. The controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which could be ... More >>
News
January 3, 2013
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?
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January 3, 2013
Dallas Fed Looks Back on the Year in Drought, Beef and Black Gold
In '12, a parched Texas saw drought ease, but the cattle industry continues to reel from the hangover brought on by 2011, the driest year in its history. Meanwhile, oil! Dear Lord, he sent us another boom. The Dallas Fed describes what 2012 held for these iconic Lone Star pursuits. We're a farming ... More >>
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December 27, 2012
Judge Recuses Himself From Keystone XL Protesters' Cases Over Conflict of Interest
A $65,000 bond for three young people arrested on misdemeanor charges sounded unusually high to us when we wrote about the Keystone XL protesters locked up in Smith County a week ago. Bail was halved Wednesday, but that was only after the presiding judge recused himself from the case over a conflic ... More >>
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December 20, 2012
Bond Was Set Extra High for Keystone Pipeline Protesters, to Send Those Hippies a Message
For more than two weeks, three young people arrested on misdemeanor charges have remained in a Smith County jail, unable to bond about because a judge set bail at $65,000. They stand accused of misdemeanor criminal trespassing, resisting arrest and illegal dumping. But the unusually high bond amou ... More >>
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December 13, 2012
Landowner's Temporary Restraining Order Against Keystone Pipeline Dissolved By Nacogdoches County Judge
Two days after a Nacogdoches County man won a temporary restraining order against TransCanada, halting construction of the controversial, 1,200-mile Keystone XL pipeline across his land, the judge threw it out, citing a dearth of evidence indicating the company had defrauded him. County Court at La ... More >>
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December 11, 2012
Nacogdoches County Landowner Wins Temporary Restraining Order Against Keystone Pipeline
Nacogdoches County Court at Law Judge Jack Sinz issued a temporary restraining order against TransCanada Tuesday, preventing the company from continuing construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline crossing Mike Bishop's land. I met Bishop a few weeks ago at his place ... More >>
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October 16, 2012
Land Comissioner Jerry Patterson Draws a Line in the Mud Over Keystone Protests
You'd think a guy with the job title "Texas land commissioner" would know a thing or two about Texas land. Little items, you know, like what the state boundaries are, what a landowner is and how to tell a Texan apart from, say, a Canadian. See also: - Keystone Pipeline Protesters Tie Themselves to ... More >>
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September 5, 2012
Keystone Pipeline Protesters Tie Themselves to Construction Equipment, Halt Work
Three protesters tied themselves to logging equipment clearing trees for the southern portion of the Keystone pipeline early Wednesday morning. A representative of the group, which calls itself the Tar Sands Blockade, says work on the East Texas site is currently halted. "A caravan of between seven ... More >>
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July 31, 2012
TransCanada Can Move Ahead With Texas Portion of Pipeline, But the Fight Isn't Over
Earlier this month, three East Texas hamlets with a collective population of fewer than 2,000 souls filed suit in a federal court in Oklahoma City to halt construction of the southern half of The International Pipeline Formerly Known as Keystone XL. The Keystone was to be a massive piece of infrastr ... More >>
News
July 12, 2012
America's Petro-Terrorists
How greedy speculators bought politicians and drove up the price of oil.
Blogs
July 10, 2012
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 >>
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April 11, 2012
UT Poll: Most Folks Want To Keep the EPA, And What is This 'Fracking' You Speak Of?
Shale gas extracted by fracking deep formations in Texas, New York, Pennsylvania and elsewhere is supposed to be the bridge fuel to the sustainable age, capable of powering power plants and, hell, even our cars. It's become the centerpiece of President Obama's "all of the above" energy plan. In Tex ... More >>
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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 >>
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September 2, 2011
Obama's Jobs Council Meets at SMU's Cox to Insist Infrastructure's the Way Back to Work
Photo by Leslie MinoraThe mustachioed man in the middle is Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIOThe day before the Labor Department broke the dismal news that the unemployment rate's unchanged and consumer confidence has "dropped sharply," students, professors and local business leaders fi ... More >>

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