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Texas city opts for 100% renewable energy to save cash, not planet
2015-03-29 14:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: News that a Texas city is to be powered by 100% renewable energy sparked surprise in an oil-obsessed, Republican-dominated state where fossil fuels are king and climate change activists were described as the equivalent of the flat-earthers by US senator and GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz. I was called an Al Gore clone, a tree-hugger, says Jim Briggs, interim city manager of Georgetown, a community of about 50,000 people some 25 miles north of Austin. Briggs, who was a key player in Georgetowns...
Texas city to go 100% solar, wind
2015-03-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Renew Economy: A city in Texas home to the "Gusher Age" of American oil is aiming to become 100 per cent renewable within two years, after finalising a deal with SunEdison to supply it with solar power for 25 years. Georgetown -- population 54,000 -- will take the output from the 150MW solar plant and another 144MW from a new wind farm to source its needs from renewables. The local utility saying it has turned to wind and solar because it is cheaper and more reliable, and requires a lot less water. The...
Kansas City Southern Invests $18M in Texas Subdivision
2015-03-18 13:55:27| Railroads - Topix.net
Kansas City Southern , Kansas City, Mo., announced that its U.S. subsidiary, The Kansas City Southern Railway Co. , is investing approximately $18 million in construction and improvement projects on its Laredo Subdivision from Laredo to Corpus Christi, Texas.
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City of Amarillo Reports Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Violation
2015-02-20 02:25:35| Waste Management - Topix.net
Amarillo water customers will receive in the mail this week a Notice about the violation required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality regulations. For an eight hour period between Nov. 24 and 25, 2014, the City's Osage Water Treatment Plant did not record the 15-minute turbidity readings for one of the seven filters that were in service, prompting the Notice required by TCEQ.
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Texas city in fracking area rocked by 11 earthquakes in 24 hours
2015-01-08 18:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: On the heels of a report linking 77 earthquakes in Ohio to fracking, a Texas city in an area rife with drilling operations was hit with a wave of 11 earthquakes in 24 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday. The most intense registered 3.6 on the Richter scale, well over the level at which people would feel it -- the local 911 service received more than 300 calls from residents trying to figure out what was going on. These recent quakes bring the total number to 26 since October in Irving, Texas, a suburb...