T-Squared: Our Shale Play

For months, our reporters, photographers and videographers have roamed the far reaches of this giant state to tell the story of Texas’ energy boom. Today we’re happy to launch The Shale Life project, the culmination of that great work.

This 15-part endeavor represents a couple of key firsts for us.

It’s the first Tribune project that’s entirely visual, from a multimedia slideshow inside a Texas “man camp” to a ride-along with overtaxed emergency responders to in-flight video with a crop duster pilot who must now dodge drilling rigs. The project features the faces and the voices of ...

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