NAVY CHEMICALS, MEET THE POWER COMPANY!

Exelon Corp generates electricity for our city at Mt Creek Station. First - the positive things one can say about this company. Exelon is growing and prosperous, on the cutting edge of nuclear energy as a power source, generous in giving to education-and its MC Station was, but may not still be, for sale. The station was being sold this summer because of legal requirements when Exelon considered buying another company- a conglomerate situation. But, I hear that deal fell through. We'll see what's next...

The things I worry about regarding this company and the environment are the practices of discharging chemicals into water /Mt Creek Lake, and cooling hot equipment in the lake. This cooling of equipment produces steam, which would be okay in clean water. But because MCL, is so contaminated from military waste, chemicals in the water vaporize into the air we breathe.

The following air quality info comes from "Scorecard" facility ratings and "Downwinders At Risk." Basically, Exelon's MCL station has earned a "dirty" rating, an 8-10, which means it's in the category of the dirtiest plants in the US , and it doesn't even burn coal. Check online with Scorecard for yourself. The ratings may change-but they can only get better. Also, check online for violations by Exelon-they do exist. According to Downwinders (a local environmental group which fights air pollution from N Texas cement plants), no testing device exists at Mt Creek Lake to measure air quality. Now that surprised me. Wouldn't you think that in a place where chemical run-off in a lake meets power company cooling equipment, with a TCE -VOC clogged aquifer nearby and natural gas drilling probably happening across the lake-WE WOULD HAVE A TESTING DEVICE??? Also, factor in that Exelon's site is the old Dallas Power and Light setting, which I found on a 1997 Superfund list. Air testing would be highly appropriate, but that might not be good for our primary state goal - business and jobs!

Wouldn't you just hate to be in charge of Texas's environmental clean up? Citizens want pure air and water, but it costs so much. Nobody wants to pay; and surely nobody wants to lose a "good job" because of more expensive regulations- even if cancer from the workplace is the ten year bonus. It takes a lot of intelligence and wisdom, not to mention compliance with the law, to
decide what to do about a toxic environment. You have to know and internalize as truth the meaning of "value" and "cost" in the economy of fragile humanity.