Valero Pipeline – How can things get any worse?
How do you ship 350,000 barrels in a 200,000-barrel pipeline?
Most pipelines are designed to transport crude oil from shale plays where frackers “produce” crude...
Valero Pipeline – What you see isn’t what you get
If you own half a pig, it’s your pig
Diamond’s petition says, “Diamond Pipeline LLC, a joint venture between Plains All American (PAA) Pipeline and...
Yet More Joy
Editor,
While surely we all applaud the refreshed efforts at the restoration of the Joy Motel, I feel it necessary to address what I see...
Is Diamond honest?
We strive to live by the core values of safety, accountability, ethics and integrity, respect and fairness every day.
– Plains All American Pipelines
PAA, known...
Two-leggeds helping four-leggeds
Editor,
What a generous community we live in. Our hearts are moved by all the creative efforts to help those suffering after Hurricane Harvey, from ECHO’s...
#resist
Last week the president who bragged about not paying income tax and who has never shown the American public his tax returns gave a...
The Inconvenient Truth about Diamond
“You’re gonna play climatologist tonight?” – Kellyanne Conway
With a quick response, Senior Presidential Advisor Kellyanne Conway stopped CNN’s questions on the climate breakdown during...
Division needs welding
Editor,
I wrote a letter to the editor that caused a genuinely unexpected backlash. As soon as the paper came out I received an...
Confederate monuments belong in museums
Editor,
I feel obliged to remark on Dan Krotz’s “Pursuit of Happiness” . I’ve always thought Krotz’s writings were smart, but this time I think his...
Diamond lurks over Arkansas
If your dog bites you are liable for damages
Last week was terrible for pipeline projects. The new 515-mile Sabal Trail pipeline, in operation for...