A judge this week reversed the air permit for a proposed coal plant in Corpus Christi called Las Brisas, handing environmental groups a victory and dealing a major blow to one of the few such plants still being planned in Texas. Read the full story at StateImpact Texas.
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David Spratt
Effectively no new coal fired plants will be built and they would shut down the rest if they could.
No new ,, or old,,, Nuclear plants will be built or allowed to start up and they would shut down the ones we have.
Fracking is under attack and would end if they can manage it
Turbines kill countless birds and despite the term " New Technologies" are hundreds of years old and inefficient .
Solar is unworkable , inefficient and not cost effective. You would have to cover the entire country just to supply the industrial needs of this state.
Oil is dirty energy so they do not want that, and besides the lizards deserve their peace.
So where do we get the power from?
Rudy Gonzales
ERCOT has failed Texas residents! Texas' electrical power grid is based on natural gas prices. The Conservative "Deer in the head lights" governor and the gross failure of ERCOT to allow the building of coal powered units, smacks of partisan politics on steroids. There has been a steady decline in the quality of representation for the people of Texas in Austin from the current "conservatives" in office.
con·serv·a·tive? ?[kuhn-sur-vuh-tiv]-
disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
Say it with me. Existing conditions mean nothing will change under the conservative banner and things will continue to erode into oblivion under this mantra.
Throwing money into Austin will not fix the problems de-regulation was supposed to have fixed and allowing coal fired production plants to be built without regard to down-wind states or federal EPA compliance is just plain confrontational. Change must be made to the Legislature and the governor's office to effect real representation for the people in Texas.
Over and above this issue is today's federal appeals court upholding the rulings of the EPA that heat trapping gasses from industry and automobiles endanger public health, further that the Clean Air Act requires the federal government to impose limits once it has determined emissions are causing harm.
Fourteen states, led by Virginia and Texas, had sued to block the rules. Fifteen states, including New York, California and Massachusetts, went to court to support the agency. Massachusetts and California were among the states that won a landmark Supreme Court decision in 2007, Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, that led to the agency’s endangerment finding. The attorney general of Virginia said he would appeal Tuesday’s ruling.
The politics of carbon dioxide regulation have grown more partisan over the years. When Massachusetts first brought the case that led to the landmark Supreme Court decision, its governor was Mitt Romney. As the presumptive Republican nominee for president, he has since backed away from his earlier position that human-caused global warming is under way.
David Spratt
I am confused,,,, do you support coal or are you against it? Reads like a whole lot of he did this ,,, and they did that ,,,, but no viable suggestion on what we should do ,,, except argue over who did what and when. Coal, oil, nat gas, and nuclear work,,,, why change? Just as in investing financially ,, you should have a diversified portfolio. An " all of the above" strategy is necessary to insure uninterrupted and adequate supplies of electrical energy.