A radioactive camera box swept away in a flash flood along the Pedernales River in Gillespie County over the weekend has been safely recovered. The lead box, which contained a camera and a “mobile darkroom,” is owned by Toronto-based Shawcor, a pipeline inspection company that is a contractor for Ki...

Kinder Morgan downplayed the impact of a decision by Hays County Commissioners to rescind permission to cross county roads. That decision was made in the wake of a construction accident March 28 that sent tens of thousands of gallons of drilling mud and drilling fluid into the Trinity Aquifer. More ...

More salvos were fired last week in the ongoing fight between Hill Country landowners, environmentalists and energy giant Kinder Morgan. The Wimberley Valley Watershed Association (WVWA) and the Trinity Edwards Springs Protection Association (TESPA) have jointly threatened to sue Kinder Morgan after...

“The future should be on the lips and minds of every person trying to make an impact on the city of Kyle … if we consider what Kyle could be like in 20 years and work our way back to the present, there is a way forward.” Those were the closing comments on Tuesday of Kyle Mayor Travis Mitchell, who d...

The ongoing battle over Kinder Morgan’s proposed Permian Highway Pipeline (PHP) took a turn last week when the Houston-based energy firm filed litigation against Kyle. Basis for the lawsuit, filed July 21 at the U.S. District Court in Austin, stems from Kyle’s pipeline safety ordinance that was appr...

A Travis County District Judge plans to take approximately two weeks before deciding the fate of litigation against Kinder Morgan and the Texas Railroad Commission. That was announced Wednesday by Travis County District Judge Lora Livingston after two full days of testimony from both sides of a cont...

A proposed bill aimed at requiring the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to implement contingency protocols for pipelines survived its first committee hearing Tuesday. House Bill 3324, authored by Rep. Erin Zwiener (D-Driftwood), is in direct response to the proposed 42-inch natural g...

Protecting landowners from a proposed 430-mile natural gas pipeline is the focus for Hays County officials as they seek to talk with Kinder Morgan about alternative routes for its proposed Permian Highway Pipeline. But the fight now involvesTexas law, which could grant Kinder Morgan eminent domain s...