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Worried About Comanche Peak Water Use?

Posted in Nuclear, tagged brazos river conservation coalition, comanche peak, Glen Rose, granbury, hood county, Nuclear Power, water use on January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Are you worried about the water usage of the proposed 2-unit expansion at the Comanche Peak nuclear power plant up near Glen Rose, Texas? Then you might be interested in the Brazos River Conservation Coalition meeting tonight at 7pm in Granbury, where they will discuss the impacts of increased water consumption if the project is [...]

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Worried About Water

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agriculture, atascosa county, bastrop county, cinderella, clean water act, coal block, coal power, comanche peak, contaminated water, crop and livestock losses, drought, Exelon, federal disaster, fossil fuels, gerald north, Glen Rose, halliburton loophole, hay prices, hurrican katrina, hydraulic fracturing, ipcc, kerrville, lake buchanana, lake travis, matagorda bay, natural gas, Nuclear, safe drinking water act, Texas, texas a&m, Victoria, water, waxo, white stallion on July 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I’ve been thinking (and worrying) about water a lot lately. I suppose that the drought has brought all this concern along. Just a few months ago, folks were comparing this drought to the one that devastated Texas agriculture in the ’50s (when crop yields dropped by as much as 50%, all but one county in [...]

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Proposed Nuclear Projects in Texas Could Cost $22 Billion

Posted in Energy, Nuclear, tagged bay city, clarence johnson, comanche peak, costs of current and planned nuclear plants in texas, CPS Energy, fort worth, fort worth star telegram, Glen Rose, mayor hardberger, mission verde, Nuclear Power, nukes, San Antonio, san antonio express news, South Texas Project, tommy adkisson, true cost of nukes on April 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Impressive nuclear headlines in the papers these days, largely as a result of a new report released by our office entitled: “Costs of Current and Planned Nuclear Power Plants in Texas: A Consumer Perspective. The report finds that the proposed expansions of nuclear power plants in Bay City (South Texas Project) and Glen Rose (Comanche [...]

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Nuclear Sneak Attack

Posted in Nuclear, tagged Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Fort Worth Weekly, Glen Rose, Luminant, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nuke Free Texas, Scoping Hearing, Somervell County on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In an era dubbed a “nuclear renaissance” by the nuclear industry and during which the Bush Administration has pushed one package of subsidies after another, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has indicated that they expect up to thirty applications to be filed to build additional nuclear plants. Currently, five or six of those proposals are [...]

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