Texas Independent Candidate for Governor Carole Keeton Strayhorn said Monday she will change the state’s permitting process in order to fight air pollution and announced her opposition to “dirty” coal-fired power plants that Gov. Rick Perry ordered fast-tracked through the permitting system.
“We first need to look to clean burning natural gas, wind energy, other renewables [...]
Standing tall amid sunflowers and bales of hay, a greasy drilling rig roared loudly, a recent addition to an otherwise idyllic ranch north of Dallas, Texas.
Other signs of change sweep across rolling green fields — green-painted gas wells, large trucks trundling across narrow country roads and a mesh of pipes peeking out of bushes.
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Independent gubernatorial candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn objected to Republican Gov. Rick Perry’s plan to speed permits for 11 coal-fired plants and called today for stricter rules to fight pollution.
Strayhorn, the state comptroller, said she would order reviews of any permits issued for the plants and “slow the process to rewrite new rules that ensure clean [...]
Coal is making a comeback.
In an industrial corner of South Jersey, on a 300-acre parcel of land on the Delaware River, a company has negotiated for the last two years to build a $1 billion coal-burning electric plant that could juice 500,000 homes.
It is one of 150 coal-burning power plants on drawing boards around the [...]
Standing tall amid sunflowers and bales of hay, a greasy drilling rig roared loudly, a recent addition to an otherwise idyllic ranch north of Dallas, Texas.
Other signs of change sweep across rolling green fields — green-painted gas wells, large trucks trundling across narrow country roads and a mesh of pipes peeking out of bushes.
This is [...]
The old Fort Worth Twin Drive-In off of Interstate 30 might soon become a gas drilling site.
Dallas-based natural gas producer Dale Resources, which has been actively drilling in the Barnett Shale, has purchased land along I-30 at Riverside Drive near downtown that once housed the Fort Worth Twin Drive-In theater decades ago.
The company says it [...]
EnerCom, Inc. announced today the lineup for The Eleventh Oil & Gas Conference(TM), www.theoilandgasconference.com. The Conference, held in Denver Aug. 13-17, 2006, is the largest energy investment conference hosted in Denver, showcasing more than 90 companies with a combined enterprise value of more than $300 billion. This premier forum offers institutional investors, energy research analysts, [...]
No one can mix up oil like grandma does. Amalie Oil (named after the founders’ grandmother) blends and supplies lubricants and other oil products including motor oils, transmission fluids, gear oils, and greases. To control costs, the company also manufactures its own bottles to store its products. Amalie Oil, which markets its products worldwide, has [...]
Remington Oil and Gas Corporation (NYSE: REM) announced that at a Special Meeting of Stockholders today the merger agreement between Remington Oil and Gas Corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: HELX - News) was approved and adopted. The merger is anticipated to be effective as of July 1, [...]
Fluor Corp. has received a contract to build a new coal plant for TXU Corp.
Irving-based Fluor (NYSE: FLR - News) said it would begin work on phase one of the project immediately and will book this initial portion of the project in the second-quarter of 2006.
The engineering services firm said it would provide engineering, procurement [...]
