by admin | Mar 28, 2016 | Vista Ridge Pipeline, Water Planning
A member of the Sierra Club’s Alamo Group has filed an ethics complaint against Mayor Ivy Taylor, alleging she inappropriately accepted campaign contributions from the owners of Pape-Dawson Engineers, who were involved in contract negotiations for the controversial... by admin | Mar 28, 2016 | Vista Ridge Pipeline, Water Planning
Spanish energy company Abengoa SA (NASDAQ:ABGB) has obtained the support of about 75% of its lenders to reorganize its large debt and ask for additional time from the judiciary for negotiations targeted at preventing bankruptcy as per a document. The organization...
by admin | Mar 25, 2016 | News, Vista Ridge Pipeline, Water Planning
Missouri-based Garney Construction is now the owner of the Vista Ridge water pipeline project after attorneys representing the construction firm, former owner Abengoa Vista Ridge, and other partners came to an agreement on Tuesday afternoon. Garney was already a...
by admin | Mar 25, 2016 | News, Regional Planning
In recent years, urbanization has become a dominant narrative in American cities like Austin. Since the 1990s, Austin has touted the “smart growth” concept, which should have more people rushing to live centrally rather than in suburbs. And downtown Austin... by admin | Mar 24, 2016 | Vista Ridge Pipeline
One of the two great ironies of the Vista Ridge saga is how Abengoa was supposed to bolster the controversial water project but instead became an albatross that threatened to doom the pipeline before it ever could be built. As a behemoth in clean energy technologies,...