This day was coming. And these kinds of foreseeable and preventable emergencies are going to keep coming. Think of what would be in store for the people Abilene with the data center going in there. Snowmaggedon was a major hint about what is out there regarding the electric grid and its reliance on a for-profit model to provide for this life and death service.
OMG. We need a Human Right to Water law yesterday! I bet a million 💸 the corporations get to keep their production going while the citizens of corpus will be buying bottled water and skipping showers. This is nuts.
Maybe water will prove to be a bridge issue: when MAGAs run out of drinking water will they turn woke?🤷♀️
It’s past time for these huge water gulping industries to have to create, provide, and pay for their own water sources using their own profits before they even start building. Desalination plants might be the best way to keep from destroying freshwater and groundwater sources, but those must be environmentally friendly as well.
Tax payers should not be forced to become venture capitalists with minimal to no, or even negative return on their forced investment.
This topic keeps appearing. Gina is in Corpus talking about this problem. It seems Corpus tax payers were in favor of the project but then got tired of trying to pay for it. The Republican council in Corpus backed away from making the investment. Now Abbott is threatening to take over the city, and of course blaming the city of Corpus who everyone thinks is a blue city.
Industry should build this if it wants the plant to provide its water. The state should contribute to this investment. Taxpayers have been hit hard enough with this already.
So what’s the purpose here? The state will take over Corpus and force its taxpayers to fund the desalination project?
And Democrats are having their Convention there in June! I have been interested in the desalinization plant because I have been told it could possibly destroy the marine life there. I wanted to visit because Tony Tinderhold told me at a Trib meeting it was done. Ha. Had not even been built.
Great article of a massively avoidable and idiotic problem. However, two questions:
1. Has Corpus been run by the GoP for all this time?
2. Where did the money Abbott said they squandered go to? I don't see any mention of Hotwheels supposed "bailout" in the article, Michelle. Did I miss something?
1. The biggest driver here is state policy. The shale boom, petrochemical expansion, port development, and the broader “open for business” approach all emerged from Republican state leadership in Austin.
2. The state gave them a loan, not a bailout, but it's all part of the political fights that have been happening.
Is that anything like the state getting the FEMA money for a hurricane and Houston getting none of it when it hit in Harris County, especially Houston which was hardest hit???????
Thanks, Michelle-- what a sh*t show that's been a long time comin'! They really don't give a damn about the folks who live there, do they? I remember pristine Padre Island from my girlhood & Galveston as well. You couldn't enjoy either without plenty of clean water. Sigh...
This day was coming. And these kinds of foreseeable and preventable emergencies are going to keep coming. Think of what would be in store for the people Abilene with the data center going in there. Snowmaggedon was a major hint about what is out there regarding the electric grid and its reliance on a for-profit model to provide for this life and death service.
OMG. We need a Human Right to Water law yesterday! I bet a million 💸 the corporations get to keep their production going while the citizens of corpus will be buying bottled water and skipping showers. This is nuts.
Maybe water will prove to be a bridge issue: when MAGAs run out of drinking water will they turn woke?🤷♀️
It’s past time for these huge water gulping industries to have to create, provide, and pay for their own water sources using their own profits before they even start building. Desalination plants might be the best way to keep from destroying freshwater and groundwater sources, but those must be environmentally friendly as well.
Tax payers should not be forced to become venture capitalists with minimal to no, or even negative return on their forced investment.
This topic keeps appearing. Gina is in Corpus talking about this problem. It seems Corpus tax payers were in favor of the project but then got tired of trying to pay for it. The Republican council in Corpus backed away from making the investment. Now Abbott is threatening to take over the city, and of course blaming the city of Corpus who everyone thinks is a blue city.
Industry should build this if it wants the plant to provide its water. The state should contribute to this investment. Taxpayers have been hit hard enough with this already.
So what’s the purpose here? The state will take over Corpus and force its taxpayers to fund the desalination project?
What am I missing?
And Democrats are having their Convention there in June! I have been interested in the desalinization plant because I have been told it could possibly destroy the marine life there. I wanted to visit because Tony Tinderhold told me at a Trib meeting it was done. Ha. Had not even been built.
This leadership is so knee-jerk and reactive, no long term planning even though they've know this was coming for the past decade. VOTE BLUE...
Great article of a massively avoidable and idiotic problem. However, two questions:
1. Has Corpus been run by the GoP for all this time?
2. Where did the money Abbott said they squandered go to? I don't see any mention of Hotwheels supposed "bailout" in the article, Michelle. Did I miss something?
1. The biggest driver here is state policy. The shale boom, petrochemical expansion, port development, and the broader “open for business” approach all emerged from Republican state leadership in Austin.
2. The state gave them a loan, not a bailout, but it's all part of the political fights that have been happening.
Is that anything like the state getting the FEMA money for a hurricane and Houston getting none of it when it hit in Harris County, especially Houston which was hardest hit???????
Republicans have done the worst in Texas.
Thanks, Michelle-- what a sh*t show that's been a long time comin'! They really don't give a damn about the folks who live there, do they? I remember pristine Padre Island from my girlhood & Galveston as well. You couldn't enjoy either without plenty of clean water. Sigh...
Just shared to bsky.