TCEQ Meeting in Austin

The girls and I attended the TCEQ Meeting in Austin on Wednesday with a room full of other concerned citizens.  "Our side" was only given twelve minutes to speak, so it was the lawyers and physicians who spoke.  They did an excellent job, especially Dr. Stafford, and the Commissioners seemed to ignore them entirely.  Rather than focusing on the pollution and the severe health threats that this plant would bring to our community, they focused on technicalities in the permit.  They did not issue or deny the permit, but remanded it to the SOAH judges, giving LBEC another chance - one with less chance of public participation - to prove that they aren't going to kill us.   They gave the SOAH judges four months to rule on new evidence.

At least they didn't issue the permit.

The fight continues.