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A year after Denton, anti-fracking movement reassesses how to reclaim momentum
Posted by Dallas Morning news: None Given on November 13th, 2015
Dallas Morning News: The swell in anti-fracking protest in Texas last year caused an international sensation.
Residents in the most oil rich of states standing up to an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Media outlets from around the globe poured into Denton last November, to report on a campaign to ban hydraulic fracturing in city limits – forcing a referendum in which 59 percent of voters told the oil and gas drillers to get out.
But that victory was quickly rendered symbolic once the Texas...
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House Republicans scrap climate change preparedness proposal
Posted by Dallas Morning news: None Given on May 15th, 2015
Dallas Morning News: House Republicans on Friday nixed legislation by a Dallas Democrat that would have asked certain agencies to take weather, water availability and climate change into account in their strategic plans.
The bill had bipartisan support in committee, but at the start of the vote Rep. Ron Simmons, R-Carollton, alerted members that the House GOP caucus opposed the measure. That vote failed 47-84, mostly along party lines.
In an interview Friday after the vote, Simmons said the caucus wants to “make...
The brilliance of Elon Musk giving away Tesla trade secrets
Posted by Dallas Morning news: None Given on June 19th, 2014
Dallas Morning News: Elon Musk is the kind of guy who probably spent his high school years asking, “Why?” or “Why not?” each time he ran up against conventional wisdom. He took that mind-set into the business world and became an acclaimed “disruptor,” most recently shaking up the auto world. On his blog last week, the chief executive officer of electric car maker Tesla Motors announced that he is opening up its electric car technology patents to competitors. This move may actually be more brilliant than bizarre. Conventional...
Many concerns, little response Azle town-hall meeting on earthquakes
Posted by Dallas Morning news: None Given on January 3rd, 2014
Dallas Morning News: Hundreds of upset residents packed the auditorium at Azle High School on Thursday evening to voice concerns to a member of the Texas Railroad Commission about earthquakes that have rattled the area in recent months.
Since Nov. 1, more than 30 earthquakes have hit near Azle, about 20 miles northwest of Fort Worth. They have measured up to 3.7 magnitude, and no injuries or major damage have been reported.
Many residents believe the earthquakes are caused by injection wells used to dispose of...
In drought-prone Texas, a threat to the energy supply
Posted by Dallas Morning news: None Given on December 21st, 2013
Dallas Morning news: At the height of the 2011 drought, the worst one-year drought in Texas history, the president of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas wrote to the head of the Public Utility Commission warning of unusual stresses on the power grid, “even for a Texas summer.” Demand for electricity was at an all-time high because of the heat, and the water needed to cool the state’s coal, nuclear and gas power plants was in short supply. In some places, water levels had dropped below intake pipes; in others,...