Barbara Hill
Texas LNG and the Valley Crossing Pipeline are on the Port of Brownsville's Commissioners Meeting Agenda this Wednesday evening, Oct 19. All able to attend should attend.
Why?
1) Because up to this point, the Port has shrugged off all local opposition to the LNG companies seeking FERC approval to build and operate at the Port. Shrugging off even Port Isabel's, Laguna Vista's, South Padre Island's, and Long Island Village's resolutions, FERC comments, and FERC Motions To Intervene against these companies.
2) Because the Valley Crossing Pipeline is the 48" fracked gas pipeline TransCanada in partnership with Spectra is building for Mexico from the Aqua Dulce Hub north west of Kingsville down to Brownsville for Mexico, then taking the fracked gas from Brownsville under the Gulf waters down to Veracruz, Mexico. At the 10-11-2016 TCEQ Public Meeting on Texas LNG's Greenhouse Gas emissions permit request, Texas LNG said it plans to get its feeder gas from this pipeline. And don't forget that TransCanada, a Canadian company, is presently suing the United States for $15 billion dollars under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for disapproving the Keystone XL pipeline that was to bring Canadian tar sand oil sludge from Canada to the Texas coast for export to overseas countries.
3) Because the "Authority to Negotiate With" Texas LNG and Valley Crossing "Action Items" will come up during the public part of the Board meeting before the private, by-invitation-only Executive Session part of the Board meeting. The public won't be allowed to comment on these Action Items until after the Executive Session part of the meeting is over. But just our presence will make visible our opposition.
Why?
1) Because up to this point, the Port has shrugged off all local opposition to the LNG companies seeking FERC approval to build and operate at the Port. Shrugging off even Port Isabel's, Laguna Vista's, South Padre Island's, and Long Island Village's resolutions, FERC comments, and FERC Motions To Intervene against these companies.
2) Because the Valley Crossing Pipeline is the 48" fracked gas pipeline TransCanada in partnership with Spectra is building for Mexico from the Aqua Dulce Hub north west of Kingsville down to Brownsville for Mexico, then taking the fracked gas from Brownsville under the Gulf waters down to Veracruz, Mexico. At the 10-11-2016 TCEQ Public Meeting on Texas LNG's Greenhouse Gas emissions permit request, Texas LNG said it plans to get its feeder gas from this pipeline. And don't forget that TransCanada, a Canadian company, is presently suing the United States for $15 billion dollars under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for disapproving the Keystone XL pipeline that was to bring Canadian tar sand oil sludge from Canada to the Texas coast for export to overseas countries.
3) Because the "Authority to Negotiate With" Texas LNG and Valley Crossing "Action Items" will come up during the public part of the Board meeting before the private, by-invitation-only Executive Session part of the Board meeting. The public won't be allowed to comment on these Action Items until after the Executive Session part of the meeting is over. But just our presence will make visible our opposition.
Note: Those wishing to make a three minute maximum public comment must get to the meeting by 5:15 pm to fill out a form and then wait until the Executive Session ends to make their comments.
When & Where:
Wednesday evening, October 11
5:30 pm [REMEMBER: arrive by 5:15 pm if you wish to make a public comment]
Port of Brownsville Administrative Building, 1000 Foust Road, Brownsville
To see the meeting agenda, go to http://www.portofbrownsville.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Agenda-10-19-16.pdf
Because of the short notice and the out-of-the way location, it's important for all able to attend to attend, at least for the public part of the meeting.
When & Where:
Wednesday evening, October 11
5:30 pm [REMEMBER: arrive by 5:15 pm if you wish to make a public comment]
Port of Brownsville Administrative Building, 1000 Foust Road, Brownsville
To see the meeting agenda, go to http://www.portofbrownsville.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Agenda-10-19-16.pdf
Because of the short notice and the out-of-the way location, it's important for all able to attend to attend, at least for the public part of the meeting.
9 comments:
BND Board of Trustees and Port Director Eduardo Campriano don't seem to have any respect for the public....and as indicated above are moving forward as if LNG was a done deal. Transparency has never been part of the policy making at BND and today the local voters and tax payers don't have any idea where the LNG decision stands. Regardless, it is time the local voters move to end the property taxes we pay to BND. They are a commercial entity that is profit oriented and no longer needs to feed off the public tit. BND seems to use our tax dollars in the same way as Julieta Garcia at UTB....and I don't accept the assumption that it is all for benefit of the public.
First, the $21 million bridge and now chemical plants to destroy our aor and water? What's next? More taxes so they can send the board members on junkets to China and Chile and colombia? Sickening people
Yes to LNG. Fuck all liberal hippies who won't work..
Pro-LNG here! We need jobs as much as we need these Vatos working. the Mexicans are not carrying their load in town!
"Yes to LNG. Fuck all liberal hippies who won't work"? Well yes I was a wanna be hippie back in the 1960's. Also earned a bachelors degree, masters degree, fought for civil rights, was drafted and honorably discharged as a supply sergeant E-5, and started work as welfare worker back in the 1960's. Heard LNG was headed our way back in May 2014 and have been working hard to stop it. So I have worked, long and hard for many years and am now working hard and for free against LNG. Because it's important. So who's this who's saying "Yes to LNG. Fuck all liberal hippies who won't work"???
What percent of Brownsville has :
1 - High School Degree?
2 - College Degree?
3 - Technical Degree?
When was the last time Brownsville had a hurricane? Florida, Georgia, Louisiana have had devastating weather in the last 10 yrs. Ah, but they have high paying jobs. At the cost of removing the coastal line and creating weather changes.
We have a clean beach, very little pollution problems. Wait till LNG comes in with the jobs and taxes go even higher, and jobs are given to a selective few and we start getting severe weather problems.
You're going to wish Brownsville be the city it was BEFORE TM and his gang, BEFORE Brownsville Navigation District and its gang, but by then it will be too late and like eveything else,LIVE WITH IT.
I'm not sure, are you insinuating that Hurricanes are drawn to LNG PROCESSING terminals...
Yes - he is insinuating that mother nature gets pissed at Florida and Georgia for their LNG plants because it irritates her eyes. And that the weather man can accurately predict the direction a hurricane if he would just fucking look where the nearest LNG plant is located.
So those Hurricanes that form 1000 miles away south of Cuba are really just mother nature opening a can of whoop-ass on Florida. Fuck low pressure clashing with high pressure and all that non sense. We can thank LNG for hurricanes. I didnt know Cuba, Haiti, US Virgin Islands who are SLAMMED yearly had LNG plants. I feel so ignorant now.
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