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TransCanada Continues to Bully Landowners Despite Denial of Pipeline Permit

Posted in Tarsands, tagged , , , , , on February 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Earlier this week, a new statewide coalition of groups and advocates for private property rights announced its support for landowners along the path of the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas. The groups charge that TransCanada, the company proposing to build the pipeline, has used eminent domain to bully landowners and condemn private property. Despite a presidential [...]

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RR Commission instituting “real” penalties for repeat offenders?

Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, tagged , , on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Chronic violators of Texas Railroad Commission safety rules may be looking at steeper fines if they don’t clean up their acts. In response to the agency’s Sunset review last session, the commissioners who regulate the state’s booming oil and gas industry are expected to approve penalty hikes in six major categories, taking special aim at repeat [...]

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State sanctioned theft of mineral rights?

Posted in Texas Legislature, tagged , , on April 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Is a proposed rule change by the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) going to allow state sanctioned theft of property owners mineral rights?  Sen. Wendy Davis (D Fort Worth) is asking the Texas Railroad Commission to hold two town hall meetings, including one in Fort Worth, to discuss her concerns that owners of mineral rights in [...]

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Bill of the Day – SB 655

Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, tagged , , , , on March 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

SB 655 by Hegar, or the Texas Railroad Commission Sunset Bill, suffered a setback in the Senate today.

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Railroad Commission Sunset bill not a cure-all for fracking, ethics

Posted in Sunset, tagged , , , on March 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The long-awaited Sunset Bill of the Railroad Commission was released late yesterday, and it’s mostly what we’d expected, but not everything we’d hoped for. Highlights: The Railroad Commission will be renamed the Texas Oil and Gas Commission It will be headed by one commissioner  (down from 3) who will be elected every four years on [...]

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TCEQ and Railroad Commission Sunset Bills Filed

Posted in Air Quality, Sunset, TCEQ, tagged , , , , on March 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Senator Glenn Hegar (R-Katy) filed a bill (SB 655) to abolish the Texas Railroad Commission and eliminate the three statewide elected positions that govern it and rename the agency the Texas Oil and Gas Commission to be run by a single elected officer who would serve a four-year term. The bill has been referred to the Senate [...]

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Representative Warren Chisum may run for Railroad Commission

Posted in Sunset, tagged , , , on February 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »

State Rep. Warren Chisum, a Republican from Pampa, Texas plans to seek a place on the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC), either by gubernatorial appointment once Michael Williams resigns in April or by running for the seat expected to be vacated next year when Elizabeth Ames Jones declines to seek re-election because of her aspirations to [...]

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Was there a gas shortage during the rolling blackouts? Not if you had the right contract.

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , on February 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The Texas Railroad Commission added an emergency item to their agenda today so it could hear from the Texas Energy Reliability Council about natural gas service’s impact on the rolling blackouts that swept the state.  They told the Commission that Texas was never in danger of a natural gas shortage during last week’s statewide deep freeze and no [...]

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Texas Railroad Commission jumping into the discussion about the rolling blackouts.

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , , on February 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Railroad Commission added an emergency item to tomorrow’s agenda so it can hear from the Texas Energy Reliability Council about last week’s rolling blackouts impact on natural gas service. The meeting starts at 9:30 am on Tuesday, February 8th at the William B. Travis Building.  Watch it online at www.texasadmin.com.

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Sunset chairman supporting Railroad Commission overhaul

Posted in Air Quality, Campaign Finance, Good Government, Sunset, tagged , on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Sunset Advisory Commission is putting the wheels in motion to overhaul the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC).  And, the chairman of the Sunset Commission is telling two of RRC commissioners that their agency “badly broken.”  Commissioner Michael Williams, the longest-serving member of the trio, has endorsed the overhaul. The Sunset Commission has recommended the Railroad [...]

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Texas’ 82nd Legislature – a bumpy ride?

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , on January 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Legislature opened its 2011 session yesterday amid a great deal of fanfare, but little substance at this point.  However, we can expect more interesting things to happen starting today when the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission makes their legislative recommendations for such controvercial agencies as the Texas Railroad Commission, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, [...]

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Sunset Recommendations Coming Wednesday

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , on January 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission will make its recommendations on how and whether to allow such state agencies as the Railroad Commission, the Public Utility Commission and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to stay in business, tomorrow, January 12th. The meeting convenes at 8 a.m. in the Senate Finance Committee room Room E1.036, Capitol [...]

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Texas Railroad Commission – The biggest bang for your buck – if you are with the fossil fuel industry

Posted in Sunset, tagged , , on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Concurrent with Public Citizen‘s release of its report - Drilling for Dollars: How Big Money Has a Big Influence at the Railroad Commission, which details how fundraising by incumbents increased 688 percent between 2000 and 2008 with the biggest driver of the increase donations from individuals associated with the fossil fuel industries – the same industries the [...]

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Drilling for Dollars: How Big Money Plays a Big Role at the Railroad Commission

Posted in Campaign Finance, Sunset, tagged , , , , , , on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

      Hey folks, here’s our press release about the report I’ve been slaving away over working on. Money’s a problem at the Railroad Commission. How bad? You have no idea. Read on, if you dare, and join us for our 1pm press conference in the Speaker’s press room in the Texas Capitol. Sweeping [...]

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Flammable drinking water sparks explosions over Barnett Shale drilling

Posted in Air Quality, Energy, natural gas, Toxics, tagged , , on December 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Texas Railroad Commission (RCC) will hold a special hearing January 10th to look into the complaints of methane in two Parker County drinking water wells that prompted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week to order a natural gas drilling company to take steps to remediate the problem.  The RRC has not yet  [...]

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