A Houston company’s failed, multimillion-dollar project to mine minerals and water from brine waste from El Paso Water’s desalination plant is being revived by a Florida company.
Critical Materials Corp., or CMC, of Jacksonville, Florida, in December paid between $5 million to $6 million to buy the never-opened brine treatment plant and its equipment located next to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant in East El Paso.
It’s evaluating what needs to be done, but hopes to have it running by the end of the year, said Steve McArthur, CEO of the 2-year-old company.
“Water treatment and minerals extraction are our specialty,” McArthur said. “We’ve operated many, many mineral extraction plants in the past” for large metals-mining companies, and that s one of the reasons the company should succeed in El Paso, he said.
Paris ISDâs Board of Trustees wants the Texas Education Agency to funnel billions of federal dollars to local public school districts to help them close the gap caused by summer and Covid-19 slides.
A resolution approved Monday by trustees will join similar resolutions by trustee boards across the state urging the TEA to pass through funds rather than using them to supplant its own funding, as it did with the first Covid-19 stimulus package approved in March 2020, Superintendent Paul Jones said. The state may not yet have applied for third round funding, Jones said, but that money would go a long way toward helping school districts to get resources in place to help students recover education levels lost to extended breaks.
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FILE - This Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, file photo shows power lines in Houston. When an unusually heavy winter storm blanketed much of Texas with snow, knocking out electricity to millions of homes and leaving many struggling to find clean water, one sector of the population was particularly vulnerable: inmates in Houston at the state s largest county jail. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
SAN ANTONIO – To help Texans prepare for possible violent spring storms and the upcoming hurricane season, Texas will have a tax holiday for emergency supplies this month.
AUSTIN Most residents in rural Fayette County, about halfway between Austin and Houston, had no idea in 2016 their community was about to be on the receiving end of 40 million pounds of sewage sludge every year.
That is until a legal notice published in the back pages of the local newspaper alerted residents of the application to use ranchland along the Colorado River as a dumping ground for the sludge trucked in from Texas capital city. After that notice appeared in our newspaper, there was a public outcry, recalled Regina Keilers, publisher of the Fayette County Record. And within weeks, the application was withdrawn.