TXU Corporation proposes to build Oak Grove, its largest lignite-burning power plant, in northern Robertson County, a predominantly rural area midway between Houston and Dallas.

Robertson County already has one medium sized coal plant (TNP 1) a few miles north of Calvert; a pollution permit application has been submitted to triple the size of this plant. If the pollution permit for TNP 1 and the Oak Grove permit are approved, our county will increase its coal-burning power plant capacity by more than 8 times (305 Mw to 2,600 Mw), becoming home to two immense coal-burning utilities.

While some pollution controls are planned, TXU's permit application does not include analysis of the best technologies available:

• They did not consider IGCC - gasification - which would be much cleaner. A plant using IGCC coal gasification technology has emissions almost as low as a natural-gas-fired plant

• They are not willing to blend fuels, which would be cleaner, and easily accomplished

• They won't consider fluidized bed technology, which is cleaner.