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March 23, 2009
Source: Victoria Advocate
Exelon is no boon to Victoria
Poker players, they say, fold their cards if they can’t win. It hasn’t rained much in Victoria in six months thus, ironically, Exelon hasn’t been in the Victoria Advocate. But they have been busy.
March 19, 2009
Source: Victoria Advocate
Large water allocation: Whoopers’ trouble
In the past 10 days, you’ve written twice on whooping crane deaths. Once today, and once again in your March 9th editorial. “Water is key to whooping crane survival.”
Texans for a Sound Energy Policy Alliance share your concern and question how you failed to mention the impact that the heavy-water use of the proposed Exelon Nuclear Plant near Victoria would have on the whooping crane.
March 16, 2009
Source: Victoria Advocate
Publisher to fight for fresh inflows of water
“The Guadalupe system is a gem. It’s beautiful. To continue a management effort to make sure it flows to the bay is a worthwhile endeavor. I would like someday to be assured that we will never in our development of a society turn our back on the importance of those inflows. It’s very easy - when water rights are so valuable and water rights are traded like commodities- to forget about the bay.”
March 13, 2009
Source: Reuters
NRG blasts rival Exelon’s hostile bid again
LOS ANGELES, March 12 (Reuters) - NRG Energy (NRG.N), trying to fight off a hostile bid from rival utility Exelon Corp (EXC.N) worth potentially about $5.6 billion, blasted the offer as being too cheap and urged shareholders on Thursday again to reject the deal.
News & Events
Nuclear plant proponents overlook drought’s realityTwo 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.