No sooner had a state hearing panel recommended the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality reject TXU's plans to build a controversial large coal-fired plant southeast of Waco in Robertson County, than TXU stepped up to the plate with an announcement that it plans build 6 new nuclear power plants.

Oh, that'll set our minds at ease. Perhaps TXU anticipates an easier path to approval than with the 'clean coal' plants.

In the June hearings related to the 'clean-coal' plant, the Star-Telegram reports that TXU officials acknowledged being unable to control emissions of nitrogen oxide, the primary man-made component in ozone. In light of this and other questions, the State Office of Administrative Hearings declared that the proposed pollution-control technology is not being used in similar plants and could not be expected to work effectively to protect human health and the environment.

Perhaps TXU should take a cue from these guys.

Posted on 1 September, 2006, in Air Quality
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