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South Texas Project Nuclear Reactors Too Expensive, CPS Cost Estimate Overly Optimistic

Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged $13 billion, Arjun Makhijani, bay city, City Council, city public services, clarence johnson, CPS, energy policy, mark cooper, matthew johnson, Moody's, NRC, nrg energy, nuclear expansion, nuclear reactor, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, nuclear renaissance, Public Citizen, san antonio express news, South Texas Project, STP, Texas, vermont law school, wallstreet on July 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Last week San Antonio’s CPS released their cost estimate for the proposed South Texas Project Nuclear Expansion, and we found their numbers naive optimistic ignored history wanting. To find out why, check out this Guest Column, printed in today’s San Antonio Express-News, from Public Citizen’s own Energy Policy Analyst Matthew Johnson. Nuclear reactors too expensive [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged america, couldbetrue, eye on williamson, health care reform, john cornyn, libby shaw, manuel bañales, mauricio celis, mcblogger, michael jackson, off the kuff, ronnie earle, round up, south texas chisme, texas kaos, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, travis county, u.s. supreme court, wcnews on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Now that we’ve celebrated another birthday for America, it’s time for the weekly Texas Progressive Alliance blog roundup. Here are your highlights from the holiday week. Neil at Texas Liberal says that while people went on about Michael Jackson, the U.S. Supreme Court was making it more difficult for black folks to get promoted at [...]

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