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Bill Berg, John Young from Save RGV
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As most guessed, the inept Cameron County Commissioners Court was just biding their time until they could once again sneak the abatement approval request back on the agenda.
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| County Administrator Pete Sepulveda |
Any County Commissioner voting for this obscenity needs to be voted out.
Meanwhile, Annova LNG encounters some problems passing basic requirements to locate an LNG plant in the county with the Army Corp of Engineers timing them out at least once.
Now, it's been learned that the Valley Crossing Pipeline, which is not intended for LNG, but instead to deliver its load entirely to Mexico, needs an additional compression station to add the additional volume to accommodate Annova LNG.
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| County Judge Eddie Trevino |
A Cameron County tax abatement agreement with Annova LNG has become increasingly dangerous.
ReplyDeleteAdded to the County tax abatement granted to NextDecade's Rio Grande LNG on 10-03-2017, it gives two LNG export companies hand holds for influencing the Commissioners' Court through the kind of ongoing buddy/buddy, Business/Government working relationships such agreements entail.
In addition, Enbridge (the parent company of the Valley Crossing Pipeline) has just bought at 10 percent owners interest in Exelon's Annova LNG project and announced a Memorandum Of Understanding with NextDecade relating to but not limited to Enbridge constructing NextDecade's Rio Bravo Pipeline project.
Both Annova LNG and Texas LNG say they'll be getting their feedgas from the Valley Crossing Pipeline. Last year, Exelon bought the Everett LNG import operation in the Boston area, which now provides the natural gas for Exelon's Mystic Power Generation Station there.
Don't be surprised if Enbridge pipelines start feeding natural gas to Annova, Rio Grande, and perhaps even Texas LNG to liquefy and ship to Everett LNG etc.
Both Exelon and Enbridge are Fortune 100 Companies. Exelon, based in Chicago cleared $39.7 billion dollars last year. Enbridge, based in Canada cleared $35.08 billion (Canadian) last year.
Don't be surprised if these natural gas companies work together with the Port of Brownville to make the Port and the County work more for their interests than for the interests of Port Isabel, Laguna Vista, South Padre Island, and Long Island Village (none of which have any say in how the Port is Run because none of them are within the Brownsville Navigation District).
Which is why we must prevent a tax abatement agreement between Cameron County and Annova LNG. QED.
Who has any doubt that the Port and County will work in the interest of big business over the residents of their districts? Who on either the Port or County commissions has demonstrated a commitment to support the people over what I believe they see as a cash cow for themselves. The Port commissioners have repeatedly demonstrated that they have lost their political way and think their job is to represent the Port rather then be the peoples representatives to the Port. From time to time what is in the Ports economical interest is not what is in the peoples interest. I get why the Port staff support these programs. They bring this industry to the Port and Port revenue goes up and they go looking for salary raises and bonuses but what's in it for the commissioners? I say follow the money, the dark money. You have to wonder what is being delivered in paper bags in out of the way places.
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