(MENAFN - Gulf Times) Like a cold-blooded animal a lizard or a snake the petrochemical hub that is the state of Texas went dormant during the deep freeze. Eventually it ll wake up again, and when it does the damage will be worse than if it never went to sleep.
Filings submitted in recent days to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, already show significant emissions related to stopping and restarting fossil fuel infrastructure. It s an indication of what s to come in a state that s home to a quarter of US natural gas production as well as half the oil production.
So, it looks like weâre doing this. We are going to attempt to have a normal spring. Or semi-normal.
Now that we possess the knowledge, experience, foresight, face masks and, most of all, vaccines that we did not have a year ago, we are going to celebrate the spring that was denied us in 2020, a season that will be filled with baseball, picnics and, fingers crossed, perhaps even high school graduations.
Thatâs what weâre hoping for, anyway.
Despite winterâs frozen clutch of ice and gloom, itâs beginning to feel like maybe, hopefully, oh-please-let-it-be-so, we are turning the corner on the pandemic that has paralyzed us. Infection rates are declining and vaccinations are rising ever so slowly. Students are returning to classrooms and ball games are being played.