Oil and gas interests in the Permian Basin have aligned with environmentalists to oppose Holtec s plan
Holtec says the project will provide hundreds of good paying jobs in New Mexico
Communities across the nation that are stuck with spent nuclear fuel are anxious to send the waste out west so they can begin redeveloping sites that housed nuclear power plants.
It’s easy to tell when boom time has arrived on the wind-swept streets of Carlsbad, New Mexico, 2,000 miles away from the shores of the Hudson River and its iconic nuclear towers of Indian Point.
When the western state s Permian Basin is humming, churning out barrel upon barrel of crude to fuel the nation’s cars and trucks, the RV parks teem with workers looking to cash in on work in the oilfields that dot the city.
Elon Musk wants to create his own city. Here’s how that could work By Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times
Published: April 11, 2021, 6:02am
Share: FILE - In this March 9, 2020, file photo, Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington. Musk has tweeted his way into trouble with another federal agency, this time the National Labor Relations Board. The board on Thursday, March 25, 2021 found that a Musk tweet in May of 2018 unlawfully threatened employees with loss of stock options if they decided to be represented by a union. Board members ordered Tesla to make Musk delete the tweet and stop threatening employees with loss of benefits for supporting a labor organization. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Starbase, Texas: Can Elon Musk really create his own city near SpaceX’s Gulf Coast launchpad?
The SpaceX CEO is hardly the first entrepreneur to think about forming a city.
The sky begins to light up before sunrise over a prototype of the SpaceX Starship at the SpaceX launch facility in Boca Chica.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
By Tribune News Service
The secluded Texas beachside community of Boca Chica Village was once a haven for retirees, snowbirds and outdoorsy people who enjoyed dirt biking, fishing or lounging near the water.
Today, traffic backs up the lone highway out of the unincorporated area that’s now home to only about half a dozen residents and SpaceX’s Starship facility. During the day, selfie-seeking tourists line the road for photos with the stainless steel spaceship under development. At night, excavators plow the earth at the busy construction site. Before test launches, residents receive a notice suggesting they temporarily evacuate for safety.
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