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by Brewing America | Sep 2, 2020 | All, coronavirus, Energy, Health, News, Oil and gas, Pollution | 0 |
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, Benjamin Thomas had grown accustomed to wearing a mask in Port Arthur, his hometown, where inhaling the air can feel like breathing the exhaust of an old car. The city is home to the largest...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Aug 21, 2020 | All, Hurricane, Hurricane Harvey, News, Oil and gas, Politics | 0 |
The storm emerges over the eastern Atlantic in late August, first as a slow-moving tropical system that remains largely unnoticed in faraway Texas. It gains power as it drifts westward into warmer Caribbean waters, lashing...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 13, 2020 | All, eminent domain, Freeport, News, Oil and gas, Politics, Race, Segregation | 0 |
It’s been decades since Manning Rollerson cut the grass in front of his grandmother’s home in Freeport, a petrochemical town of about 12,000 that’s situated on the Gulf, about an hour’s drive south of Houston. But he still...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Mar 18, 2020 | All, climate change, dan crenshaw, Energy, Environment, Oil and gas, Politics | 0 |
On January 10, 1901, Spindletop gushed forth near Beaumont, ushering in the age of oil. An unholy amount of money blanketed Texas, materializing in pocketbooks as if manifested by God. Then, 119 years and four days later, Todd...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Mar 17, 2020 | All, houston, Kam Franklin, Music, Oil and gas, The Suffers | 0 |
In October 2014,my band, the Suffers, played CMJ Music Marathon, the SXSW of New York City. We did six or seven showcases that week, and at the last one this guy walked up to me before the show and said, “I work for David...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 18, 2020 | All, Boomtown, Business, Energy, Environment, Oil and gas | 0 |
In our final episode, we explore the rugged Big Bend region of far West Texas. Wildcatters have poked around for oil and gas in this area before. But the record-breaking production in the Permian Basin has pushed oil and gas...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 11, 2020 | All, Boomtown, Business, Energy, Environment, Fracking, George Mitchell, Oil and gas | 0 |
George P. Mitchell was a Texas wildcatter—but not the swaggering kind. He was quiet and bookish, just as fascinated by deep space as he was knowledgeable about rock formations deep within the earth. Though he didn’t fit the...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 4, 2020 | All, bethany mclean, Business, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Oil and gas | 0 |
I’ve spent a lot of time driving around the Permian Basin over the last year. There were times I put more than a thousand miles on my truck in a single week. (Yeah, I know that’s not much to brag about in West Texas mileage.) No...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Dec 17, 2019 | All, Boomtown, Business, Energy, Environment, Oil and gas, Permian Basin | 0 |
To understand the current shale boom, we take a step back in time to explore the history of oil in Texas. Earlier this year, I drove to the site of the Santa Rita No. 1. Named after the patron saint of impossible dreams, the...
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