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Two recent Express-News articles were highly predictive of South Texas’s future: “This dry spell may be the drought of record” and “Energy giant wants to keep Guadalupe River water rights.” The two highlight the relationship between nuclear power and water.
Global warming studies predict South Texas will experience longer and more severe droughts.
The future is here and its reality is staring us in the face.
Paper water rights deceptiveCentral Texas is experiencing one of the worst natural droughts of the last 50 years. It’s dry and we all know it - we feel it. And during such times, it makes a lot of sense to seriously question our state and local water policies. When it rains, we have enough for all of our dreams. It is when we are dry that reality appears.
TSEPA: GBRA Sells Guadalupe Water Rights to Exelon Amidst Basin-Wide DroughtVICTORIA, TX - Texans for a Sound Energy Policy Alliance (TSEPA) today questioned the logic of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority’s (GBRA) decision to extend its water reservation agreement with Exelon while simultaneously requesting others to conserve.
With the Guadalupe River Basin experiencing Stage 2 drought conditions, GBRA encouraged all users to limit their water usage. Additionally, GBRA was forced to increase the release rate from Canyon Lake into the Guadalupe River in order to meet the current water supply demands for its downstream user, the City of Victoria. At the same time, GBRA accepted $1.1 million from Exelon to reserve 75,000 acre-feet from the Guadalupe for its proposed nuclear power plant near Victoria.
Tuesday, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:15 pm
All through the history of the United States young men and women have gone off to fight in wars. They have given of their time and even their lives that we who live here in the Untied States can enjoy the freedoms expressed in our constitution.
There is a war going on here in Victoria County. A war against big government and big business and those of us here who enjoy the freedom that our armed forces fought for have a obligation to see that those members of our society haven’t fought for nothing.
If you don’t want to see big government or big business run your life you will have to get up from the easy chair and write letters to your congressman, who by the way work for you, go to public meetings and let it be known that you don’t want to sell your water to San Antonio, that you don’t want a toll road running through your land, that you don’t want uranium mining in your area, and that you don’t want a nuclear plant sitting in your neighborhood.
GBRA, TCEQ, NRC, or the Railroad Commission aren’t going to protect you from the ills of these proposed projects. GBRA used it’s power of eminent domain to sue private citizens for the purpose of surveying a route for a possible water pipeline from Exelon to GBRA’s Coleto Creek Lake. TCEQ publishes the applications in the local paper to increase emissions from existing plants when those plants can’t clean their emissions to the standards set. How many unplugged abandoned oil wells are on record with the Railroad Commission? NRC didn’t protect the people of Braidwood, Illinois from tritium leaks either. It is time to educate yourself and stop letting the government run your life.
When Nuclear power plants say they are “a clean, safe and cheap” source of energy consider this: What is clean about a process that emits waste so toxic that there are no facilities that will store or house it? As for cheap a plant costing in the neighborhood of $145 billion which is subsidized by the government (your tax dollars) may be cheap, but there are other ways to spend that same money, deliver kilowatts and not have toxic waste.
Now is the time to ask the hard questions before we have to learn to live with what our complacency will deliver. There is a war going on in Victoria county you owe it to those men and women who have fought for our rights to be part of this war.
Thursday, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:20 pm
To the people of Victoria please look at what exelon did to the people of godley and braidwood IL first lies and more lies it took ten years and a lot of work by some very brave people to get some of the truth to the toxic waste dump that they turn our little town into. look at the taxes they took back from our schools look at the job cuts and much more our lives. safe clean cheap B>S i say there is no safe levels of radiation .And tritium don,t get me started on that! They will tell you it safe it is not .Radioactive waste will never go away do you Victoria want to expose your children to toxic waste and there children to this death sentence just for a few dollars .They want to turn this country into just one big wasteland just to fill there pockets and to heck with you or your children lives there are better ways to make electric then to pollute this country better I say better!!! Don’t be fooled by exelon like we were!!!!!!!