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Pipeline Backlog Expected to Ease as Texas Backs Off Pollution Fight
Posted by Dallas Morning News: James Osborne on March 31st, 2014
Dallas Morning News: For close to 18 months, Mike Heim watched the construction site outside Decatur where his company planned to build a natural gas processing plant sit idle. He was waiting for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to OK air pollution permits.
“You just got in the queue and sat at your desk,” said Heim, chief operating officer of the Houston pipeline company Targa Resources. “We were able to move some of the gas to other midstream stations that had space in their plants. We were fortunate to...
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Around oil and gas fields in Texas, water supplies run thin
Posted by Dallas Morning News: James Osborne on August 29th, 2013
Dallas Morning News: Jack Watts has been drilling water wells in the countryside around Fort Worth for decades.
And in the last five years he has seen something he says he’s never seen before. Customers around the natural gas fields atop the Barnett Shale are turning on their taps to find their wells have run dry, the victim of falling groundwater levels beneath their homes.
“Before, you just had the cities and the co-ops and ranchers watering their cattle, some dry-land farming,” Watts said. “But with the shale...