Austin waste money on biofuels energy project
Texas Monitor:
The city-owned power company would have been much better off using natural gas from shale wells which is much cheaper than the wood chips the plant was designed to burn. Almost all alternative energy that liberals have been pushing is inefficient.
For almost six years, Austin Energy customers have been paying about $54 million a year for a $128 million power plant they also paid for that isn’t producing energy.There is much more.
Nearly two years ago, the city of Austin hired a staff of attorneys to see if Austin Energy could get out from under a 20-year contract that even supporters of the wood-burning power plant came to see as a terrible deal for utility customers.
When asked late last week by The Texas Monitor what, if anything, those lawyers had done during that time, Jason Stanford, a spokesman for Mayor Steve Adler said, “The lawyers aren’t discussing this publicly. That’s all I know.”
The city is also not disclosing how much taxpayers have been paying in attorney’s fees. At the time Adler confirmed for a Texas Watchdog reporter that the lawyers had been hired, he said those fees could reach $100,000.
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The city-owned power company would have been much better off using natural gas from shale wells which is much cheaper than the wood chips the plant was designed to burn. Almost all alternative energy that liberals have been pushing is inefficient.
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