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Was there a gas shortage during the rolling blackouts? Not if you had the right contract.

Posted in Global Warming, tagged electric reliability council of texas, Electricity generation, natural gas, public citizen texas, Rolling blackout, Texas, Texas Railroad Commission on February 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The Texas Railroad Commission added an emergency item to their agenda today so it could hear from the Texas Energy Reliability Council about natural gas service’s impact on the rolling blackouts that swept the state. They told the Commission that Texas was never in danger of a natural gas shortage during last week’s statewide deep freeze and no [...]

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Senate Intergovernmental Relations Committee to hear from TCEQ

Posted in TCEQ, tagged Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Senate Intergovernmental Relations will meet at 9:30 AM, Wednesday, February 09, 2011 in E1.028 (Hearing Room) to hear invited testimony from representatives from the representatives from Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Click here to watch the hearing online tomorrow morning.

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Chemical facility explodes outside of Houston

Posted in Air Quality, tagged Enterprise Products, houston, Texas on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

There are reports of an explosion occuring about 11:45am at Enterprise Products in Mont Belvieu, Tx just east of Houston. So far, I’ve seen no reports about possible injuries or deaths, but the photos are daunting. Enterprise owns a state of the art gasoline additive production facility that has been modified to produce isooctane, a motor [...]

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PEC’s former general manager sentenced to five years probation

Posted in Co-op Reform, tagged Fuelberg, money laundering, pedernales electric cooperative, public citizen texas on February 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Former Pedernales Electric Cooperative General Manager Bennie Fuelberg has been sentenced to five years’ probation, 300 days in county jail, 1,000 hours of community service and $126,000 in restitution which goes to the co-op’s former law firm Clark, Thomas and Winters, and its insurance company, which paid a $4.1 million settlement to the co-op last year. [...]

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NRC holding public meeting March 2nd for STP’s environmental review for their license renewal

Posted in Global Warming, tagged bay city, Energy, Nuclear, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, STP, tx on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will hold two public meetings on the environmental review of South Texas Project (STP) Nuclear Operating Co.’s application to renew the operating licenses for the STP nuclear reactors near Bay City. The public is invited to attend and comment on environmental issues the NRC should consider in its [...]

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It’s not that easy being deregulated . . .

Posted in Energy, tagged electricity, Energy, Kilowatt hour, public citizen texas, Public utilities commission, Texas on February 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »

. . .But deregulation is the color of money And deregulation can be cool and shopping-like And deregulation can be big like a variable rate plan, or important Like a TXU/Oncor, or tall like a wind turbine. Deregulation of the Texas electric market brought us the “POWER TO CHOOSE.” You can check out the Public [...]

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