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June 8, 2012

Live-Blog: Chesapeake Energy’s Shareholder Meeting

Chesapeake Energy is one of the “world’s biggest frackers” and a major player in Texas, and today they hold their annual shareholder meeting. It comes after weeks of bad news and eye-opening investigations into the company, particularly the unconventional financial dealings of its CEO Aubrey McClendon. The meeting starts about 10 a.m. (CST) at the company’s campus […]

June 7, 2012

Coming Friday: Live-Blog from Chesapeake’s Shareholder Meeting

On Friday, we’ll be carrying a live-blog from our friends to the North at StateImpact Oklahoma, who will be attending Chesapeake Energy‘s annual shareholder meeting. You can follow the live-blog here. Reporters there will be giving a play-by-play, and our partners at StateImpact Pennsylvania will be chiming in with relevant links and information concerning the […]

Have You Talked to Your Doctor About Fracking?

In December, Texas enacted fracking disclosure rules, which require drilling companies to itemize what chemicals they use in the hydraulic fracturing process. Any well that got a permit from February 1, 2012 on has to make the disclosure on the website FracFocus.org. But there was an exception for “trade secrets,” chemicals that are part of a […]

June 6, 2012

The Private Space Industry Has Eyes For Texas, But Not Everyone’s On Board

The private cosmic exploration company Space X wants to build a launch pad in Brownsville, and that’s got the attention of Texas Parks and Wildlife and environmental groups.

June 5, 2012

An Interactive Map of EPA Superfund Sites in Texas

View Texas Superfund Sites in a larger map In 1980, Congress passed a federal law to cleanup sites with excessive industrial contamination. These were places that were so polluted that they required long-term federal cleanups, and they’re known as Superfund sites. StateImpact Texas reporter Dave Fehling reports today that thirty years later, some of these […]

June 1, 2012

1.21 Gigawatts! A Look at Energy in Film

If you’re a fan of the wide-eyed Doc Brown in Back to the Future or the type who’s curious how many megawatts it took to blow up Alderaan in Star Wars, you’ll want to check out a special show airing on public television in Austin tonight, Energy at the Movies. Michael Webber, who leads the […]

In Photos: The Impact of Oil

Oil prices are finally going down (for the moment, anyways) but this year has been pretty painful at the pump. While price is most on our minds, there’s also plenty to think about with the production and impact of oil. A new art app for the iPad aims to get viewers to think deeper […]

May 31, 2012

Texas Power: Slim Reserves Getting Slimmer

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation released its latest “Summer Reliability Assessment”. It says while most of the nation has adequate reserves of electric power to make it through the summer, Texas may not. “Given the expected reserve margin in the ERCOT Region for the 2012 summer season (below the minimum Reference Margin Level), unavailability of […]

May 29, 2012

Chesapeake Energy: Everything You Need To Know About The ‘World’s Biggest Fracker’

We tackle the tough questions; What is this company? Who is their CEO and what’s the deal with his wine and antique map collection?

May 18, 2012

Come and Get It! Feds Issue Final Notice for Gulf Offshore Drilling Sale

If you were hoping to get in on some of the action in offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, time is running out. On Thursday the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) gave final notice of an upcoming sale of nearly 38 million acres of offshore leases. Those leases run an area […]

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