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Drought and coal-fired power plants don’t mix

Posted in Coal Plants, Utilities, Water, tagged , , , on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

According to the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), at the end of summer 2011, Texas had suffered the driest 10 months since record keeping began in 1895.  Rivers, like the Brazos, actually dried up. And if that wasn’t enough, the dry weather came with brutal heat.  So brutal, that seven cities recorded at least 80 [...]

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EPA issues first Texas Greenhouse Gas Permit

Posted in Air Quality, Climate Change, Global Warming, tagged , , , , on November 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »

According to the Texas Energy Report, the EPA has issued its first greenhouse gas permit in Texas with the TCEQ refusing to issue permits to LCRA or others The Lower Colorado River Authority received the first Texas Greenhouse Gas permit as it upgrades a 37-year-old generating unit in Llano County to a more efficient natural [...]

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LCRA cancels board meeting with the White Stallion Energy Center water contract on the agenda.

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , on August 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

August 10 LCRA Board meeting canceled after White Stallion water contract pulled from agenda Discussion and possible action by the LCRA Board of Directors on a contract to provide water to a proposed new coal plant in Matagorda County has been postponed indefinitely. This decision comes after the company proposing the plant substantially changed the [...]

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LCRA meeting in Bay City, July 28th at 6:30 pm

Posted in Coal, Coal Plants, Water, tagged , , on July 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »

According to a Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) press release, there will be a public meeting in Bay City on July 28th at 6:30 pm regarding the White Stallion water contract. The Lower Colorado River Authority will hold a public information meeting in Bay City on Thursday, July 28, on a proposed water contract with [...]

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LCRA meeting in Bay City on the White Stallion Energy Center water contract

Posted in Coal Plants, Water, tagged , , , , on July 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

At LCRA’s Board of Directors meeting on June 15, 2011, they discussed a contract to sell up to 25,400 acre-feet of water a year to White Stallion Energy Center for a power plant in Matagorda County.  The LCRA Boardroom was filled with citizens against the contract, and the board heard public comments with 30 signing [...]

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White Stallion Coal Plant Fails to Obtain Water Contract

Posted in Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Today the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) Board of Directors delayed a vote on providing water to the “White Stallion” coal plant proposed for Matagorda County. Though White Stallion’s Chief Operation Officer, Randy Bird, was expecting and asking for approval of a contract today, the board chose to delay action until August 10. This makes [...]

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LCRA board names first female general manager

Posted in Utilities, tagged , on June 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Becky Motal has just been named the first female to become general manager of the Lower Colorado River Authority in its 76-year history. Motal, executive manager of external affairs, was chosen by a unanimous vote of the LCRA board of directors and assumes the helm of the energy and water management agency effective July 2. [...]

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Power Plants Suck – lots and lots of water! Your water, Central Texas!

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , on June 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The 2009 record drought left the lower Colorado river basin stricken, but rains following the drought had made major inroads to recovery.  Now as Texas sees more than half the state in an “exceptional” drought with no end in sight, the board of the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) could decide on Wednesday to sell [...]

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Austin’s Fayette coal-fired power plant sued

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, tagged , , , , on March 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »

LCRA’s Fayette Power Project is under legal attack by three anti-pollution groups who filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the coal-fired power plant located near La Grange, about 100 miles northwest of Houston. The lawsuit was filed by the Environmental Integrity Project, Environment Texas and Texas Campaign for the Environment. Claiming LCRA’s Fayette Power Project has [...]

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Texas Hill Country CREZ (Transmission line) Project Approved

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, tagged , , , , , on January 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The Public Utility Commission passed a scaled-back version of a controversial power line project through the Hill Country to bring West Texas wind energy to the urban centers on Thursday, January 20th.  The commission was under a Monday deadline to act on the project. The three-member panel spent much of that morning tweaking the routes of [...]

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Pancho the Donkey, White Stallion and Water: The community responds

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Global Warming, Toxics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

  On Thursday, the TCEQ (Texas Commission of Environmental Quality) held a public meeting for the White Stallion Energy Center at the Bay City Civic Center to hear feedback on the plant’s application for a wastewater permit.

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Public Citizen responds: Check your facts, Judge

Posted in Coal, Energy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »

For those of you following our work organizing citizens in the Bay City area against the proposed White Stallion coal plant, there is a new chapter to add to the saga. You may remember that we were down there recently speaking with rice farmers concerned about the plant’s potential (huge!) water use. Turns out not [...]

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Portland General Electric plans to shut down its coal plant by 2020

Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 22, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Austin is not alone in preparing for clean and affordable energy. When good news like this comes across the internet like this, we have to share. From the cloudy northwest: Portland General Electric Co. would shut down the state’s only coal-fired power plant 20 years earlier than planned under a proposal it hopes to finalize [...]

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Proposed South Texas Project Reactors Pose Increased Water Use and Radioactive Contamination Risks

Posted in Global Warming, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

San Antonio, TX –  Nuclear power is the most water intensive energy source available. When San Antonio and all of Texas are suffering from extreme drought and are increasingly in need of sources of drinking water, pursuing more nuclear reactors doesn’t make sense, especially true since cheaper, safer alternatives such as energy efficiency, wind, geothermal [...]

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Austin Energy Town Hall Meeting on the City’s generation and climate protection plan

Posted in Coal, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on September 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Big event tonight for Austinites concerned about coal! Tonight, Sept. 1, will be an Austin Energy Town Hall Meeting on the City’s generation and climate protection plan. The event will be located at 721 Barton Springs Rd., Rm 130 from 6 – 8:30pm. Please attend this meeting so that Austin Energy can hear your voice [...]

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