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1. 1. Supporters welcome Hinojosa into district office - Top Stories

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   Published on: 2/15/2003   Last Visited: 2/15/2003

   During last year's bitterly fought Democratic primary election, the most expensive state Senate race in Texas history, Hinojosa had his car tires slashed by supporters of his opponent, Corpus Christi lawyer Barbara Canales-Black.
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   Canales-Black hammered Hinojosa for his legislative continuance work for Bridgestone-Firestone.
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   Canales-Black, coming from a famous Corpus Christi political family, was strong in the north. In between lay hundreds of miles of brush in rural Brooks and Jim Wells counties, countryside both candidates got to know well.
   
   Redistricting shifted power in District 20 from Corpus Christi, represented for 26 years by state Sen.
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   Since then, Canales-Black has returned to her law firm work, though occasionally she is mentioned as a potential state Democratic Party chairwoman, U.S. House representative or Corpus Christi mayor.

2. 2. Radioactive drilling tool lost on Padre Island - Top Stories

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   Published on: 7/1/2002   Last Visited: 7/1/2002

   BNP is co-owned by Barbara Canales-Black, the Corpus Christi attorney who was defeated by McAllen lawmaker Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa in the state Senate District 20 runoff election in April.
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   The company has been dogged by controversy since it became known that Canales-Black, the company's former legal adviser on regulatory affairs, went to Washington to lobby for favorable environmental rules regarding the endangered piping plover bird.
   
   The bird, a small, pale-covered North American shore bird that winters on Padre Island, is one of 13 endangered species found on the island.
   
   The criticism intensified when Canales-Black threw her hat in the Democratic primary ring for the District 20 seat being vacated by retiring state Sen.

3. 3. Candidate: denies lobbying was for her business - Top Stories

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   Published on: 3/28/2002   Last Visited: 3/29/2002

   District 20 candidate Barbara Canales-Black defended her visits to Washington, however, saying they were not related to BNP Petroleum Corporation's billion-dollar gas-drilling project on the island.
   
   "The drilling permit had absolutely nothing to do with my presence in Washington. My presence in Washington had to do with a critical habitat designation for the endangered piping plover," said Canales-Black, until recently a BNP corporate lawyer with special emphasis on legislative and regulatory affairs.
   
   Corpus Christi-based BNP and its partners have acquired gas leases and options beneath more than half of Padre Island National Seashore, plus significant acreage outside National Park Service boundaries.
   
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   Along with representatives from various Coastal Bend government entities, Canales-Black lobbied to reverse a proposed ruling from U.S. Fish and Wildlife that would have included Padre Island National Seashore in the critical habitat designation for the endangered piping plover.
   
   The bird, a small, pale-covered North American shore bird that winters along the Texas Gulf Coast, is one of 13 endangered species found on Padre Island.
   
   Fish and Wildlife's proposed rules were issued in 2000 after lawsuits were filed in 1996 and 1997. The agency proposed designating more than 250,000 acres in Cameron, Willacy, Kenedy and Kleberg counties as habitat for the bird.
   
   Various Coastal Bend entities, including the city of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, the city of Port Aransas, the Kenedy Foundation and the Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program, argued that the ruling would adversely affect economic development in the area, including Padre Island.
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   Canales-Black, a Corpus Christi lawyer and petroleum engineer, maintains that her focus in Washington was the Coastal Bend economy generally, not just her company's long-term exploration plans.
   
   "The drilling permit process had its own timeline and the critical habitat designation was a completely separate issue," Canales-Black said. "It was an issue that the entire Coastal Bend community, all the way down to South Padre Island, agreed on. We felt the proposed designation had been done egregiously incorrect."
   
   But BNP's economic impact study, which was funded in part by taxpayers' money, focused largely on the impact the piping plover ruling would have on natural gas exploration, development and production.
   
   Ten pages of the report concentrated on energy issues, compared to one page on tourism, four pages on the proposed Packery Channel project in Corpus Christi, and two on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.
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   Acknowledging the role Canales-Black played in Washington, Taylor said: "Barbara has been extremely valuable in her advocacy with regulatory offices at the state and federal level."