Tracking the players in the ever-growing energy and environmental world.
We sat down recently to speak with Jim Prescott, a project representative for TransCanada, about the company’s views on the pipeline
The farmer won a temporary restraining order preventing the company from going on her land earlier this week. But TransCanada has wasted no time in fighting back.
How the company behind the pipeline is using eminent domain to route the project through private property.
Accidents at drilling sites, new links between fracking and earthquakes, and a farewell party for La Niña (the main culprit behind the current Texas drought) were among our readers’ favorite stories over the last week. In case you missed them, here are the top five new StateImpact Texas stories: How Fracking, Drilling and Earthquakes are […]
A case before the Texas Supreme Court could have big consequences for landowners and pipeline companies.
One UT professor is finding new connections between drilling activity and quakes. Should Texans be concerned?
As drilling for oil and gas has surged in Texas, so have injuries and deaths. But there are promising efforts to reduce accidents.
With U.S. coal exports to Mexico on the rise, border communities question the environmental cost.
Lots of rigs, not enough homes, and luxury cars flying off the lot. Just don’t call it an oil “boom.”
An explosion and fire at a disposal well injured three last week, and has raised more questions than answers.
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