{"id":491642,"date":"2010-03-30T19:06:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T23:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/texaswatersolutions\/?p=170"},"modified":"2010-03-30T19:06:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T23:06:51","slug":"old-news-is-bad-news-corpus-citizens-pay-for-las-brisas-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/491642","title":{"rendered":"Old News is Bad News: Corpus citizens pay for Las Brisas Water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I see something that is so downright shocking I feel the need to <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/texasenergyexchange\/2009\/12\/23\/corpus-christi-is-borrowing-from-peter-to-pay-paul\/\">mention it again<\/a>. The <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"https:\/\/connect1.edf.org\/f5-w-687474703a2f2f7777772e63616c6c65722e636f6d$$\/news\/2010\/mar\/26\/corpus-christi-city-council-to-discuss-las-water\/\">Corpus Christi City Council <\/a>wants to provide more incentives to the proposed Las Brisas power plant. A plant the <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"https:\/\/connect1.edf.org\/f5-w-687474703a2f2f7777772e736f61682e73746174652e74782e7573$$\/\">State Office of Administrative Hearing<\/a> just recommended <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"https:\/\/connect1.edf.org\/f5-w-687474703a2f2f626c6f67732e6564662e6f7267$$\/texasenergyexchange\/2010\/03\/30\/las-brisas-rubber-stamp-gone-missing\/\">against<\/a> because of air quality issues, but this is a blog about water &#8212; not air. Well, as I mentioned <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"https:\/\/connect1.edf.org\/f5-w-687474703a2f2f626c6f67732e6564662e6f7267$$\/texaswatersolutions\/2010\/03\/29\/why-power-plants-use-so-much-water-and-what-to-do-about-it\/\">yesterday<\/a> &#8212; power plants mean water.<\/p>\n<p>This may not be <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"https:\/\/connect1.edf.org\/f5-w-687474703a2f2f626c6f67732e6564662e6f7267$$\/texasenergyexchange\/2009\/12\/23\/corpus-christi-is-borrowing-from-peter-to-pay-paul\/\">new news,<\/a> but it deserves a second look. From the sounds of it, the water to run this plant will be subsidized by the citizens of Corpus. The cost of <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"https:\/\/connect1.edf.org\/f5-w-687474703a2f2f7777772e63616c6c65722e636f6d$$\/news\/2009\/dec\/07\/city-council-to-begin-discussion-on-garwood\/\">raw water<\/a> 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&#039;s if everything goes according to plan. The kicker is that without the plant, Corpus wouldn&#039;t even need the pipeline now and the citizens of Corpus could keep their money in their wallet, where it belongs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=GJcKC4Ua1PA:GaADQIcg3vE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=GJcKC4Ua1PA:GaADQIcg3vE:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=GJcKC4Ua1PA:GaADQIcg3vE:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=GJcKC4Ua1PA:GaADQIcg3vE:u0Zhe-nyOHo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=u0Zhe-nyOHo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=GJcKC4Ua1PA:GaADQIcg3vE:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/environmentaldefense\/~4\/GJcKC4Ua1PA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}