Last year's elections to the board of the Pedernales Electric Co-op resulted in a majority committed to ending the days of scandal that have plagued the PEC for so long. The PEC board is now considering bringing a Bill of Rights before the members for approval during this year's board elections.

City Public Services (the City of San Antonio's electric utility) and New Jersey based NRG are currently seeking investors for two new nuclear reactors they hope to build at the South Texas Project site in Bay City, Texas. They are also seeking commitments from communities like yours to purchase the power these reactors would generate.

Recent revelations leave no doubt that top officials at the City Public Services deliberately misled the public and the San Antonio City Council about the true cost of nuclear power. Clean Water Action and our allies have issued warnings for several months now that the $13 billion price tag for the nuclear reactors proposed for South Texas was too low.

CPS has now admitted that this figure is $4 billion too low! Top staff
at CPS and chair of its Board have now resigned in disgrace.

Austin Energy, our city's award-winning electricity provider, has prepared a new ten-year plan on where we will get our energy from. This plan will increase Austin's commitment to clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency, help keep electric bills in check, and cut back on pollution from the coal-burning Fayette Power Plant.

Earlier this year, many of you signed a postcard from Clean Water Action in support of clean energy and calling on leaders of New Braunfels to buy more renewable energy and develop energy efficiency programs that lower electric bills and reduce water use.

The good news is that New Braunfels Utilities has new energy efficiency programs, like a high efficiency air condition and heat pump rebate. The bad news is that it might sign a nuclear power contract with San Antonio.

Don't get duped.

Tell Austin's Mayor And City Council To Stop the Mistake on the Lake!

WTP4 won't make new water, just the capacity to take more water from Lake Travis. Tell Mayor Leffingwell and the City Council to stop the Mistake on The Lake

Thanks in part to letters and postcards from Clean Water Action members like you, the City of Austin is improving its water conservation programs substantially. It is considering setting a goal of lowering per capita levels of water consumption from its current 170 gallons to 140 gallons per capita per day by 2020, the level recommended by the Texas Water Development Board. This is what we have been asking them to do, and that's the good news.

The bad news is, a slim majority on the city council still supports building a new drinking water treatment plant, Water Treatment Plant 4 (WTP4), on the shores of Lake Travis. If built, WTP4 will cost over $500 million--and twice as much with interest payments! Household water rates could increase by 15% in order to pay for it.

Building a new treatment plant does not 'make' new water but only creates the capacity to take more water from Lake Travis -- a lake which reached dangerously low levels during the recent drought. Future droughts are very likely. Tell Mayor Leffingwell and the City Council to oppose WTP4 and stop the mistake on the lake now.