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TCEQ Executive Director to recommend remanding Las Brisas permit
07/08/2010 - 11:45

New Ozone Standards likely to put Corpus Christi out of Attainment without LB

According to sources in the environmental community, it appears that TCEQ Executive Director Mark Vickers will ask the three TCEQ Commissioners to remand the Las Brisas permit. The Commissioners could ignore the recommendation and grant the permit, but with the EPA looking over their shoulder it is questionable whether they are willing to go the mat for a big polluter.

Las Brisas Political Commentary: What (or who) can you buy with a $3 billion project in Corpus Christi?
06/28/2010 - 16:03

The Las Brisas story took another turn on May 11th with was essentially a vote of support for the project by our “pro-business” city council. The Council decision would allow the city to provide water to the plant if they are granted their highly contested air permit by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The only real effect of the council action may be to restore some of the shaken confidence of potential Las Brisas investors that resulted from the recommendation by the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) judges that Las Brisas should not be granted their air permit. The motivation behind the push to approve Las Brisas’ water contract may have been nothing but an effort to reassure their investors. Guaranteeing a water supply to a facility whose air permit may not be granted would otherwise seem to be a rather empty gesture.

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Will Bill White turn the Repubilican Tide?
06/26/2010 - 10:53

Bill White is not your usual politician; he certainly can’t be called a pretty boy. Bald, with a large nose and extraordinary ears and ordinary height, he reminds you of a gnome in a business suit. Then he starts to talk and he makes tremendous sense. He has been working towards this day for a long time and he has developed the credentials and expertise to run the state for the people who live here, not just his big contributors and multi-national corporations, a way of governing completely foreign as of late.

Analysis: March Madness leads to April Runoffs
04/03/2010 - 17:55

Republicans surge, Dems stay home

Republicans Elect Trial Lawyer County Chair
The March 2nd primary election got a lot of folk’s attention, even if it was about the people whose attention it didn’t get. While Republicans turned out in record numbers, fueled by some cross over Democrats who voted on Republican platform issues like abortion and the Republican governor’s candidate competition, Dems mostly stayed at home with a record low turnout.

Hillcrest Groundwater Investigation to Begin
02/15/2010 - 10:16

25 million gallons of pollution as close as two foot from the surface flows towards the ship channel

George Rice, MS, a soil hydrologist from San Antonio, opened the February 11th meeting and urged local participation in all aspects of the TCEQ planned investigation of the groundwater scheduled to start in six weeks. He noted that currently not enough data is available to determine the extent of the problem in Hillcrest, but noted that in his 30 years in the industry, he had never seen a more polluted groundwater system that currently exists along “Refinery Row.” He added that movement of the hydrocarbon plume floating atop the groundwater is probably leaking into the ship channel.