Board Promises Transparency, Whistleblower Protections, Open Meetings AUSTIN, Texas – The first meeting of the new board of the Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) on Monday marked an unprecedented change in leadership and vision for the nation’s largest electric cooperative. Not only is the majority of the board progressive reformers, but it is led by an [...]
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Public Citizen Applauds Leadership, Vision of New PEC Board
Posted in Energy, Good Government, Renewables, tagged Austin, bill of rights, christi clement, electric coop, Energy Efficiency, larry landacker, money laundering, open government, patrick cox, pec, pec scandal, pedernales electric coop, Public Citizen, reform, renewable energy, Texas, theft, Tom "Smitty" Smith, whistleblower protection on June 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
CPS’ Reactor Cost Estimate Naïve; Ignores History and Independent Reports
Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged Arjun Makhijani, City Council, clarence johnson, CPS, CPS Energy, NRG, nrg energy, nuclear cost, nuclear expansion, Nuclear Power, nuke, San Antonio, South Texas Project, STP, wall street on June 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Statement of Tom “Smitty” Smith, Director, Public Citizen’s Texas Office CPS Energy’s announcement today that it will cost $13 billion to build two new nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project (STP) is a naïve guess when compared to independent assessments that offer more realistic estimates for financing and construction. San Antonio already has spent [...]
U.S Politics: but, Please make it brief
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged america, democratic convention, education, environmental quality, health care forum, hillary clinton, media, obama, republican convention, television, us politics on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night like many Americans I watch President Obama’s ABC News Health Care Forum, filmed from the White House. Among the things that struck me most was how vague and sound-bite oriented the President’s answers were to the panels questions and how the pressures of commercial television force speakers into confining their messages to short [...]
Personal Actions to Save the World: Thoughts for You the Consumer
Posted in Consumers, tagged Activism, Alaska, CAFO, Confined Animal Feeding Operation, consumer, Consumer Activism, Ecopledge, environment, Local, Mayor's climate agreement, PIRG, pollution, Product on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Maybe I am underestimating the reach of this blog, but I am guessing that if your are reading this you probably a pretty well- educated American (if not, you certainly are an English speaker, and are probably from a western country — but most likely yer from Texas), who has the ability to access a [...]
Hot Texas Summer Leads to Record Energy Consumption
Posted in Energy, Global Warming, tagged baseload, Coal, Consumers, electric reliability council of texas, energy use, ercot, fort worth star telegram, generation capacity, grid, june, Nuclear, outages, peak energy, power grid, record electricity consumption, reuters, solar, summer, Texas on June 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Just four days into summer, and we’re already are setting records for energy consumption in Texas. Yesterday Reuters reported that the Texas grid had set a new record for peak energy consumption in the month of June. With temperatures already in the 100s in our largest urban ares, thermostats are cranking across the state, and [...]
Sharks in a Dunktank: My rant on the student debt Business
Posted in Consumers, Good Government, Uncategorized, tagged Aid, College, Debt, education, Finance, Interest, John Boehner, loans, Mike Enzi, Pell Grants, Post-secondary, Sally Mae, School, Student Loans, students, University on June 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This is an issue that has been bothering me for some time, but does not get as much play in political discourse I think it should. In my opinion the high cost of education and my generation’s huge accumulation of loan debt are likely to be one of the biggest problems that ordinary people in [...]
Help Chart A New Direction for A Sustainable Future in Austin
Posted in Global Warming on June 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Join Public Citizen and dozens of Austin environmental groups in welcoming the newly inaugurated Austin City Council. In this time of economic and environmental crisis, we have an opportunity to reshape our future, now. Our community is coming together to make Austin a model of a sustainable city, and we want our elected officials to [...]
Pecan Street Project Public Meeting June 23rd
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, tagged airport blvd, Austin, austin city council, Austin Energy, capital area workforce board, Clean Energy, highland mall, pecan street project, smart grid, Texas, University of Texas on June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
You are invited to learn about and provide input to the Austin Pecan Street Project tomorrow, June 23 from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Capital Area Workforce Board, 6505 Airport Blvd., Suite 101-E (please enter from the Highland Mall side of the building). The Pecan Street Project is an initiative charged with exploring [...]
Whoops!! Nukes Fail to Pay-off
Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged municipal bonds default, northwest energy, Nuclear Power, nuke, nukes, washington public power supply, whoops, wppss on June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Whoops is a word with a negative connotation. It is also a word commonly associated, for better or worse, with Northwest Energy. It is an association they been trying to shake since the 1980s. They even went as far as to pay $260,000 in a 1998 lawsuit to avoid being associated with the stigma of [...]
Coal Plant Waste Water Hearings in Texas
Posted in Coal, tagged citizens for a clean environment, coal plant, coleto creek, coleto creek power plant, Oak Grove, our land our lives, robertson county, rolke ranch, Texas, Victoria, waste water on June 15, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Two of the 12 newly proposed coal plants in Texas recently had preliminary hearings for their waste water permits: “Oak Grove” in Robertson County and “Coleto Creek” west of Victoria. In both cases the local groups opposed to the plants got “standing” (meaning they can participate in the actual contested case hearings which will be [...]
HOUSTON TOWN HALL MEETING ON CLIMATE CHANGE and GREEN JOBS
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Houston Climate change green jobs on June 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies National Commission to Engage African Americans on Climate Change and Commission Co-Chair State Senator Rodney Ellis present a TOWN HALL MEETING ON CLIMATE CHANGE and GREEN JOBS
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