Word: oilmen
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...When the oilmen first called years ago, Eathorne, 66, never dreamed that the rolling grasslands his family has owned since 1944 would one day sprout 40 oil wells, 80 miles of pipeline and three railroad tracks. In recent years, he has set some house rules. In a "surface-use agreement," he stipulated that the workers leave their dogs at home so they wouldn't harass his 1,000 sheep and 500 head of cattle. But he and his wife had to build a new house on the far corner of the property to get away from the noise. They...
...formulating a huge energy initiative designed to "change the whole nature of the discussion" and challenge the G.O.P., Democrats, the oil and electricity industries, and environmentalists. An adviser said Bush's views about global warming have evolved. "Only Nixon could go to China, and only Bush and Cheney--two oilmen--can bring all these parties kicking and screaming to the table," the adviser said...
...relationship between environmental recovery and infrastructure protection has created strange bedfellows in Louisiana. Environmentalists and oilmen, engineers and biologists alike have rallied behind a plan called Coast 2050. First drafted in 1998, it called for $14 billion in federal funding for the restoration of barrier islands, marshes and swamplands. But the money never came. In fact, the White House's Office of Management and Budget squeezed the request from $14 billion to $1.9 billion in the 2005 Water Resources Development Act, which is still awaiting a Senate vote. Governor Kathleen Blanco, in her first State of the State address after...
...different. First, his business is oil. Second, he's running from the police. Liu, who declines to reveal his full name, changes his cell-phone number weekly and won't pass two nights in the same bed. His fugitive life is shared by dozens of other wildcat oilmen in northern China's Shaanxi province, where independent drillers are fighting for compensation after the government seized their wells and detained several of those who complained. "I'm in debt to the banks and most people I know, and I can't even return home to visit my parents," says...
Revenge is sweet. I remember OPEC ministers and U.S. oilmen admonishing American consumers for our unrestrained consumption of oil. I remember, too, those avaricious souls telling the world that high oil prices were nothing more than the result of supply and demand. Now that the cycle has reversed itself, let OPEC and American oil producers suffer. Mike Huberty Knoxville...