Sometimes I see something that is so downright shocking I feel the need to mention it again. The Corpus Christi City Council wants to provide more incentives to the proposed Las Brisas power plant. A plant the State Office of Administrative Hearing just recommended against because of air quality issues, but this is a blog about water — not air. Well, as I mentioned yesterday — power plants mean water.
This may not be new news, but it deserves a second look. From the sounds of it, the water to run this plant will be subsidized by the citizens of Corpus. The cost of raw water could increase by 36 percent to nearly $1.20 per 1,000 gallons of water to pay for this 40-mile, $100 million pipeline and that's if everything goes according to plan. The kicker is that without the plant, Corpus wouldn't even need the pipeline now and the citizens of Corpus could keep their money in their wallet, where it belongs.