Comments on: Austin City Hall Showdown: Solar vs. Nukes. Let’s get biz-zay!

By: Austin solar water heater

Austin solar water heater — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:55:27 +0000

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By: JeffBrooks

JeffBrooks — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:34:51 +0000

It’s all about the mayor’s race. If you ask me, Martinez and Leffingwell are trying to delay the solar power project because they don’t want McCracken (who has been far more pro-active on renewable energy than any other Council member) to be able to take credit for pushing this project. They’d rather it be swept under the rug until after the election, which is why Martinez has suggested the vote be delayed until the summer (i.e. after the election).

By: Matthew Johnson

Matthew Johnson — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:24:06 +0000

The Statesman is reporting that Martinez is pushing to delay the solar vote on Thursday.

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/cityhall/entries/2009/02/10/martinez_wants_delay_on_solar.html

By: David Power

David Power — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:18:41 +0000

Rumor has it that Austin City Councilman Mike Martinez is the force pushing hard to bring back the Nuclear proposal and to dump the Solar project. With the big city right down 35 rolling out a major new green agenda and huge proposed changes in their utility, are we going to see San Antonio leave us and the Green jobs agenda behind in a cloud of brown dust. We’ve got Grandma coming back, like some of the nuclear waste that we cant get rid of, and now this, is it going to be 1978 all over again?

David Power
Public Citizen