From Inside Climate News:
After a decade of efforts and tens of millions of dollars invested, the Corpus Christi City Council moved to cancel a contract for a seawater desalination plant in a 1 a.m. vote Wednesday at the end of a rancorous, 13-hour public meeting.
The plant was first proposed to meet the water demands of industrial facilities that wanted to build around Corpus Christi, a refinery hub on the South Texas coast. But its cost ballooned from initial estimates of $160 million in 2019 to $1.2 billion last month…