by admin | May 8, 2019 | Legislature and Regulation, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Scenic Beauty
Houston pipeline operator Kinder Morgan is asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit filed against a project to move natural gas from the Permian Basin of West Texas to the Gulf Coast. Citing various technicalities, lawyers representing the pipeline company filed a motion...
by admin | May 8, 2019 | Legislature and Regulation, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Scenic Beauty
The state’s biggest industry finds itself in an unusual position: facing landowner-friendly reforms at the Texas Legislature. On the day of the explosion, Randy Zgabay’s grandmother kept him inside. His grandfather would usually hold Randy, who was only eighteen...
by admin | May 6, 2019 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, News, Night Skies, Scenic Beauty
Friday evening’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math Expo keynote speaker was William Wren, a distinguished and award-winning advocate for dark sky preservation. Wren has worked at the McDonald Observatory for 29 years and currently is the special...
by admin | Apr 26, 2019 | Legislature and Regulation, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Planning and Development, Scenic Beauty
Lawmakers, lobbyists and landowners sparred at a Capitol committee hearing on Thursday over a batch of bills designed to protect property owners whose land may be seized by private companies to build oil and gas pipelines. A bipartisan — though largely Republican —...
by admin | Apr 23, 2019 | Legislature and Regulation, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Planning and Development, Scenic Beauty
We can be fairly certain that gas pipeline giant Kinder Morgan didn’t have this consequence in mind when it decided to route a massive, nearly four-foot diameter gas pipeline through the Texas Hill Country and over the fragile Edwards Aquifer. That consequence is a...
by admin | Apr 23, 2019 | Legislature and Regulation, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Planning and Development, Scenic Beauty
Hays County, the city of Kyle and a coalition of Hill Country landowners have filed a lawsuit to fight the route of Kinder Morgan’s proposed Permian Highway Pipeline and challenge how the state agency that regulates the oil and gas industry allows companies to...