Gathering Line - a special pipeline that transports gas from the field to the main pipeline.The Gathering Line is a round-up of oil & gas drilling news brought to you by National Alliance for Drilling Reform (NA4DR), a broad alliance of … [Read more...]

The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you to get out and vote on Tuesday. Here are this week's highlights.Aruba Petroleum is drilling a Barnett Shale gas well in the backyard of Tim and Christine. Their property was taken, it's value diminished, … [Read more...]

National Geographic photos show drilling destruction.Move over people, animals, landscape, clean air, water, and life itself. How is this destruction any different than mountain top removal? And I'm still waiting for some proof that cradle to grave … [Read more...]

Mrs. Burns retired from blogging last week but now she and XOM are on the same side of a lawsuit. I kid you not. This irony burns. Literally. Crikey... … [Read more...]

The Texas Progressive Alliance is ready for the start of the World Series, and it presents to you its weekly highlight reel as we await the first pitch.quizas of South Texas Chisme wonders about the US detaining a Mexican human rights activist.WWJD … [Read more...]

She is right. No one deserves to be stomped or "treated this way."However, Exxon, Shell, EnCana, Chesapeake and essentially every single BIG GAS and BIG OIL company on this planet stomps on landowners regularly so let's not pretend we didn't see this … [Read more...]

I just got this in an email forward:Hey all,Tomorrow on my radio show I will have an interview with:-txSharon of - http://txsharon.blogspot.com/-Tom Power - an economics professor from the University of Montana,talking about boom and bust economies … [Read more...]

The Texas Progressive Alliance celebrates the start of early voting for the 2009 elections with its always on time weekly blog roundup.Human tragedies are mounting in the Barnett Shale as study after study shows high levels of toxins in the air. The … [Read more...]

The Texas Progressive Alliance is enjoying the fall weather too much to think of a clever opening to this week's blog roundup.This week on Left of College Station, Teddy writes about what it is like to share a birthday with a war and how we have been … [Read more...]

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Capitalism: A love storyWe saw Capitalism: A love story last Friday in Denton, TX where over 66% voted for John McCain. The theater was full and several times during the film people applauded. There was lots of applause at the end.THIS is THE weekend … [Read more...]