Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

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Uranium Energy Corp Makes Progress with Permitting at the Goliad ISR Project

October 15th, 2008

Uranium Energy Corp announce that it has filed two Class I Non-hazardous Waste Disposal Well Applications (WDWA) with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for the Company’s Goliad ISR Uranium Project in South Texas. The on-site wells will be used for the disposal of fluids associated with uranium recovery and aquifer restoration activities. As [...]

Uranium Energy Corp Completes Successful Hydrologic Tests and Files Production Area Authorization Application at the Goliad ISR Project

September 8th, 2008

Uranium Energy Corp announce the successful completion of hydrologic testing in the first production area (PA-1) at the Company’s Goliad ISR Uranium Project in South Texas. The Company has now filed a Production Area Authorization (PAA) Application with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The TCEQ earlier issued a Draft Mine Permit to the [...]

Uranium company receives draft mine permit for Goliad County

June 9th, 2008

The uranium mining company that started a project in Goliad County has received a draft mine permit from the state.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issued the draft permit to Uranium Energy Corp. and will accept public comment for 30 days, a news release from the uranium company stated. This would be the first such [...]

Dynegy, Sierra Club discuss coal plants

April 3rd, 2007

Dynegy Corp. chief Bruce Williamson met with the Sierra Club to discuss eight proposed coal plants.
Following Dynegy’s merger with LS Power last week, Dynegy shifted into a plant developer role, the Houston Chronicle reported Monday. Williamson met with representatives from the environmental group in Washington to talk about the eight proposed plants.
Williamson said though the [...]

TXU’s Central Texas coal plant gets OK

February 28th, 2007

TXU Corp. received permission Wednesday to move forward with plans to construct a coal-fired power plant in Central Texas. The plant is one of three that the company’s prospective new owners still plan to build.
A federal judge in Austin approved a settlement Wednesday among TXU, the Justice Department and Alcoa Inc. that allows TXU to [...]

Panel delays process for coal plants’ permits

February 22nd, 2007

AUSTIN — A coalition of environmental groups and local governments won more time Wednesday to prepare their case against TXU Corp.’s efforts to build six coal-fired power plants.
A panel of administrative judges slowed the permitting process a day after a state district judge blocked Gov. Rick Perry’s executive order fast-tracking the permitting process for [...]

Business Leaders Hire Lobbyists to Battle Dirty Coal

February 22nd, 2007

The founders of the Dallas-based Texas Business for Clean Air, an unlikely coalition of free-market well-to-dos formed to oppose Texas’ 17 proposed pulverized coal power plants, paid a visit to Austin last week. Co-founder David Litman, the father of Hotels.com, argues that utilities’ coal proposals, especially those of TXU (proposing 11 plants), don’t reflect the [...]

Judges delay permitting for coal-fired plants

February 22nd, 2007

AUSTIN - A coalition of environmental groups and local governments won more time Wednesday to prepare their case against TXU Corp.’s efforts to build six controversial coal-fired power plants.
A panel of administrative judges slowed the permitting process a day after a state district judge blocked Gov. Rick Perry’s executive order fast-tracking the permitting process for [...]

Texas companies plan wind, gas, coal power plants

February 16th, 2007

Several Texas energy companies offered Thursday to build a string of wind, gas and coal-fired power plants and transmission lines across the Panhandle that could lessen the state’s future dependence on coal while supplying enough electricity for more than a million Texas homes.
More than 15 proposals were filed with the Public Utilities Commission to [...]

Pollution from trains complicates coal plan

February 3rd, 2007

Locomotive trains hauling coal to a slew of proposed new power plants in North Texas would emit enough pollution that local leaders may have to consider more drastic measures than already planned to meet federal ozone regulations, a state analysis concludes.
TXU Corp. and energy industry advocates insist that the coal-fired power plants planned to be [...]