Texas’ Attorney General, Greg Abbott is taking his fight with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Washington DC today. Abbot will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on how he believes the EPA’s policies are affecting Texas. Abbott, TCEQ and the governor have been on the warpath against the EPA for some time. Abbott, [...]
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Texas AG to testify in DC about Texas’ lawsuits against the EPA
Posted in Air Quality, tagged clean air act, greg abbott, public citizn texas, Texas, United States Environmental Protection Agency on February 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Texas Railroad Commission jumping into the discussion about the rolling blackouts.
Posted in Global Warming, tagged Energy, Matira; Gas, natural gas, public citizen texas, Texas, Texas Railroad Commission on February 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Railroad Commission added an emergency item to tomorrow’s agenda so it can hear from the Texas Energy Reliability Council about last week’s rolling blackouts impact on natural gas service. The meeting starts at 9:30 am on Tuesday, February 8th at the William B. Travis Building. Watch it online at www.texasadmin.com.
PUC Executive Director gets the ball rolling on a blackout inquiry
Posted in Energy, tagged Brian Lloyd, electric reliability council of texas, public citizen texas, Rolling blackout, Texas on February 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Brian Lloyd, the executive director of the Public Utility Commission has directed the electric reliability monitor (the Electric Reliability Council of Texas) and the electric market monitor (Potomic Economics) to investigate all of the events surrounding last week’s rolling blackouts and electric generation failures. This includes “all preparations” made by ERCOT and all actions taken [...]
Texas News Roundup for Feb 6, 2011
Posted in News Roundup on February 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas Progressive Alliance is hoping for a swift and player-friendly resolution to the NFL labor situation as it brings you this week’s roundup. Bay Area Houston submits a press release from Rick Perry: TX Gov Rick Perry puts the Chupacabra on emergency legislation. Off the Kuff conducted an interview with Houston City Attorney David [...]
Could Austin make another bad deal with STP
Posted in Energy, tagged Austin Energy, austin texas, Energy, nrg energy, Nuclear on February 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On January 25th, Juan Garza, President of Advanced Technology with NRG Energy, Inc. sent a letter to Austin Energy general manager, Larry Weis. The contents of that letter are outlined below. Two months ago, I informally delivered a proposal to you for Austin Energy and NRG Energy to explore a purchase power agreement from the [...]
Thousands rally to protest global warming
Posted in Global Warming, tagged climate change, Texas, winter on February 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Heard from a friend yesterday, he’s originally from Connecticut, so unlike us south Texans, thinks one should drive around as long as you can see more than just the outline of a car covered in snow. He ventured out at noon to get coffee and groceries at the Whole Foods in downtown Austin, but the roads [...]
An unusual day in Austin, TX
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, Uncategorized, tagged austin texas, Matt Lauer, Michio Kaku, Physics, Texas on February 4, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Here is a photo of Austin, Texas as a winter wonderland – shared by a friend on facebook who lives in Arkansas. If you are interested some other amazing photographs of Austin in snow by this photographer, you can go to Stanford Moore’s website by clicking here. If you didn’t catch it last week, check out MSNBC’s [...]
Rolling blackouts – who profits?
Posted in Energy, tagged electric reliability council of texas, lon burnam, public citizen texas, Rolling blackout, Texas on February 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, State Rep. Lon Burnam and his staff got little in the way of a satisfactory answer from ERCOT as to why as many as 50 power plants were off line, and predicted that the issue will remain a hot topic especially in light of the fact that ERCOT is up for a sunset review [...]
Who didn’t contribute to yesterday’s rolling blackouts?
Posted in Renewables, tagged Coal, electric reliability council of texas, public citizen texas, Renewables, rolling blackouts, Texas, TXU on February 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said cold weather had knocked out about 50 of the 550 power plants in Texas, totaling 8,000 megawatts. We can’t tell you which plants were down because that information is considered “confidential under market rules.” According to ERCOT’s website, its market rules “are developed by participants from all aspects of [...]
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