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Related: About this forumTexas senators blast regulator for power grid winterization loophole lawmakers wrote into law
The law says the state's natural gas system won't be required to prepare for extreme weather until 2022 at the earliest and allows companies to opt out of weatherization requirements.
In a committee hearing Tuesday, Texas senators were furious that natural gas companies wont have to better prepare their facilities for extreme weather before this winter and rebuked the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the states massive oil and gas industry, for not fixing the problem sooner.
Wait a minute, state Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville, told Wei Wang, executive director of the Railroad Commission. You havent done it yet?
But the loophole that lawmakers spent the hearing condemning and the slow timetable for winterizing the state power grid were part of legislation they approved during the regular legislative session in the spring.
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Javaman
(62,439 posts)brought to you by the trump sucking asshole abbott.
stock up on fire wood and blankets now.
Paladin
(28,204 posts)white cloud
(2,567 posts)we had in 1989, 2011, 2014, and now 2021. All talk and no teeth in the bill they are wasting time on. What are we paying these people for - to sit on their ass and come up with nothing meaningful? Guess we will wait till the next weather extreme (probably 2027),
Sit back and watch them again unless we vote the morons out.