One oil pipeline too many for Texas?
Sunday, January 23, 2011 - 21:00
in Earth & Climate
TransCanada's plan to pipe in tar sands oil angers Texas landowners who say they resent being pushed around by a foreign company.Texas has rarely met an oil facility it didn't like. Ever since Spindletop sent a gush of crude 150 feet into the air near here in 1901, Texans have been mostly willing to put up with the spills, smokestack belches and massive refinery vistas that go along with big, fat pots of "Texas tea."