Comment of the Day: What Lies Beneath
“. . . roads go over top of petroleum pipelines all the time with an agreement & bond to protect them. Citie$, countie$ and large entitie$ do it all the time. The whole of the Woodlands Town...
View ArticleA Place for Houston, in the Greater Scheme of Things
O Houston: In the ephemeral hurly-burly of daily life it’s often too easy to forget just why we’re here. Oil Song final animation [Vimeo] Video: Sharad Patel … Read More
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Canada Dry on Tap: Houston’s New Link to the Clear-Cut North
That proposed underground pipeline linking Houston to the luscious bounty of Canadian strip-mined tar sands will sneak into Houston from the east, and won’t even make it inside Beltway 8, according to...
View ArticleThe Lunchtime Racket at Brady’s Landing
Visiting the Houston Ship Channel on a promotional “toxic tour” of sites where the air will likely be invigorated once nearby refineries get chugging on the Canadian tar sands headed for Houston...
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Up in the Pines To Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
Three hours north of Houston in Cherokee County, reports Brantley Hargrove, protesters interfering with a 485-mile section of TransCanada pipeline being built to carry diluted bitumen south to...
View ArticleHouston Oil Company Wants to Build an Island on the Alaskan Coast
Meanwhile, in Prudhoe Bay: Houston-based oil company Hilcorp is seeking permission to construct 23-ac. Liberty Island off the north coast of Alaska by trucking 83,000 cu. yd. of gravel (more than 3...
View ArticlePipeline Protesters Leave Freezing N. Dakota, Head To Texas To Camp
Meanwhile, in Alpine: Several groups of environmental activist-types are currently setting up a series of long-term protest camps along the planned route of the Trans-Pecos Pipeline, which would send...
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The Time My Brother and His Friends Almost Blew Up a Gas Pipeline in the Bayou
One Houston summer in the early 1960s: “My brother and his friends were playing, pretending they were WWII soldiers and they were running around shooting fake machine guns and then they would go over...
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