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Uploaded by on Oct 27, 2009

San Antonio City Council delays vote on $400 million bond issue for expansion at South Texas Project nuclear complex until January, 2010, after Toshiba releases new "substantially higher" cost estimate. Execs from City-owned CPS Energy are booking flights for Japan to negotiate.

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  • GREAT QUESTIONS, reporters! Especially appreciate the call for a really independent task force on how to spend my money.

  • GREAT QUESTIONS, Tracey and Greg! Plus I love the persistence of the reporter who asks about "the done deal-ness" of this deal, AND who calls for a really independent task force about how to spend my money.

  • 400 million dollars could likely buy enough windmills and solar panels to permanently power the same number of homes at the fraction of the cost of this nuclear monstrosity.

  • Notice how Bartley said that they are going to go to Japan to negotiate a new "cost estimate". "Estimate" being the key word. So, things could all change again in 2012 when the license is granted. Bad, bad, bad.

  • At 4:21 Steve Bartley acknowledges that they knew about the price increase a week and a half before they told the mayor.

  • Maybe the Nuclear Eleven (Castro and the 10 council members) will now make an effort to read the Jeremy Rifken report "San Antonio Leading the Way Forward to the Third Industrial Revolution" which shows how renewable energy can provide 10,000 jobs for the city and provide for all our energy needs.

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