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At the same time, natural gas producers reported that “rolling blackouts” caused significant “production shortfalls.”
“We saw these vulnerabilities,” said Joshua Rhodes, a research associate at the University of Texas Energy Institute. “We saw these issues. We wrote some reports, and then they sat on the shelf and apparently had no impact. I think Texas deserves better than that.”
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Power outages hit Permian Basin
Situated in the Permian Basin, Midland has long been known as an epicenter of oil and natural gas production.
“If Permian was a country, it would be like the fourth-largest producer of oil,” said Dr. George Nnanna, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas Permian Basin. “In the last decade, we’ve seen about a 1.1 billion barrel increase in oil production and about 3.6 trillion cubic feet increase in natural gas production.”
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Here’s a list of Garland parks and trails to visit this Earth Day
Celebrate Earth Day while outside.
Jovanni Ledezma, 7, fishes from a pier at John Paul Jones Park along Lake Ray Hubbard in Garland on July 18, 2020.(Lynda M. Gonzalez / Staff Photographer)
Garland is home to more than 2,200 acres of green space, trails and recreational facilities. Curving around an arm of Lake Ray Hubbard, the city also has waterfront views.
To celebrate Earth Day or to take a break from being indoors, spend some time at one of the following parks around the city.
Here are some of the parks and trails you can find nearby.
The Dams of North Texas Are a Bicyclist’s Dream
As the pandemic changed our world, I decided to explore mine on two wheels. Turns out, there is water everywhere in North Texas. It all starts at the dams.
By
Harry Jones
Published in
D Magazine
April
2021
Photography by Joseph Haubert and Harry Jones
On the avenue where I grew up, I liked to dam the water in the gutters. A neighboring photographer had a darkroom in his garage; the trickle from his hose was my riparian source. If I had a crew of other boys helping me, we could dam the entire street. When our fathers came home at sunset, our dams failed anticlimactically under their tires.