Texas's Big Oil asking for $12 billion in taxpayer money to protect them from climate change

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The higher tides now expected in places like Texas’s Gulf Coast means that something’s gotta give.

A new 60-mile, infrastructure project has been proposed. It would buttress and reinforce Texas’s seawalls, and include “floating gates,” and “steel levees.”

The AP reports that it would cost

“at least $12 billion for the full coastal spine, with nearly all of it coming from public funds.”

The plan is focused on a stretch of coastline that

runs from the Louisiana border to industrial enclaves south of Houston

that are home to one of the world’s largest concentrations of petrochemical facilities,

including most of Texas’ 30 refineries, which represent 30 percent of the nation’s refining capacity.

so far, Texas has already sent almost $4 billion of that money to protect “specifically” oil refineries.

Meanwhile, within the last year, craven Republican Party officials have argued out of either sheer corruption or stupidity that

the problems of rising sea levels have nothing to do with climate change,

let alone manmade climate change.

Now, oil companies want Americans to foot the bill for their shortsighted and greedy business model.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/23/1790367/-Texas-s-Big-Oil-asking-for-12-billion-in-taxpayer-money-to-protect-them-from-climate-change?detail=emaildkre

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Big oil asks government to protect it from climate change

https://apnews.com/4adc5a2a2e6b45df953ebcba6b63d171

Here's where BigCorp, oligarchy, Repugs absolutely adores welfare and socialism.

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asshole Repugs in hole TX

Attorney General Ken Paxton won’t defend Texas Ethics Commission as his allies try to gut it



Attorney General Ken Paxton refuses to defend the Texas Ethics Commission in court as one of his largest political donors sues to dismantle the agency.

A newly revived lawsuit threatens

to strip the ethics commission’s power to enforce state laws that shine a light on where politicians get their money.

The lawsuit is the latest in a yearslong siege from

Empower Texans, a tea party group

that promotes small government and low taxes and aggressively campaigns against establishment Republicans.

In a budget request to state lawmakers filed last month, the commission said it will need $600,000 to pay a private lawyer to defend it in court because the attorney general will not.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...s-13161740.php

Seems like Tim Dunn is too far extreme right wing even for TX Repugs

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extractive industries want you and me to pay for the externalities of their business. as usual.

only this time, it's not a superfund site but their own low lying refineries threatened by rising sea levels.