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Desalination plant feedback mostly 'salty' as public comment period ends and last updated 2021-05-06 23:17:57-04 CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The City of Corpus Christi says it's the key for growth, but environmentalists and anti-industrialists think it's a bad idea. Regardless of which side you're on, the public comment period for the intake permit for a proposed desalination plant is over. "It’s mostly persons are concerned about industrial growth," city manager Peter Zanoni said of the comments that had come in ahead of Thursday's deadline. "And they’re saying, ‘we don’...

Moda Midstream receives expansion approval Expansion orders given despite strong complaints Moda Midstream has been approved to start expanding. and last updated 2021-05-05 19:07:29-04 INGLESIDE ON THE BAY, Texas — Moda Midstream in Ingleside is one step closer to expanding their operations, although neighbors to the proposed project remain outspoken against it. “They’re building a pier 600 yards from my back door," said Pepper Mitchell, a neighbor and member of Ingleside on the Bay Coastal Watch Association. "They’ve already had one ship hit a pier, a supertanker. Am I g...

Rolling Stone The Corpus Christi Water Wars A coalition of residents is trying to halt the region’s rapid industrial sprawl. The fight is now centered on the water supply for a massive new Exxon SABIC plastics plant in the drought-prone Texas city By Rahim Fortune for Rolling Stone A skyline of smokestacks appears on the horizon before the rest of Corpus Christi does. Approaching Texas’ “Sparkling City by the Sea” on I-37, a palm-tree-lined highway running from San Antonio to the Gulf Coast, it’s tough to tell where the billowing exhaust from oil refineries ends and...

Residents concerned with MODA pier proposal and last updated 2021-02-01 20:46:45-05 INGLESIDE ON THE BAY, TEXAS — MODA Midstream’s facility at Ingleside on the Bay is less than a mile from several homes, and a proposed improvement to that facility would move traffic about 1,000 feet closer to those homes. “Every time a boat comes up here to dock, the tugboats’ prop wash comes across our sea grass, and it’s degrading our sea grass,” said Patrick Nye, who lives about 3,700 feet away from MODA’s current dock. According to NYE, there are five species of sea gras...

Unusual Odor in Ingleside Raises Concerns Residents of the Bay of Ingleside complain to TCEQ and last updated 2021-01-06 07:09:13-05 INGLESIDE — Some residents say that a diesel scent is pretty much a daily occurrence, but now they say there’s a more pungent smell and they fear it could be coming from local oil facilities. Residents first started to notice the smell around four in the afternoon on Monday. Some are worried that the Moda Ingleside Energy Center may be to blame for gas emissions. However, in a statement the company provided to us, they say they work closely with leader...