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On local TV, @GovAbbott blamed the #texaspoweroutage on ERCOT and frozen natural-gas generators and pipelines.
On @seanhannity, he blamed the Green New Deal and wind turbines. https://twitter.com/abc13houston/status/1361849893250359297
On @seanhannity, he blamed the Green New Deal and wind turbines. https://twitter.com/abc13houston/status/1361849893250359297
Every local interview, @GovAbbott trashes ERCOT and frozen natural-gas generators and its lack of a backup plan. https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/watch-live-texas-gov-greg-abbott-interview-on-klbk/
"There is an additional reason causing a lack of natural gas...the ability to both manufacture and ship and transport natural gas has frozen up also." https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/governor-greg-abbott-ercot-texas-power-outages/287-dbd12f07-5c8e-49b2-9a77-681ee0f705fc
"My team has been talking to all the natural gas suppliers and producers all across the state of Texas to accelerate the process of their ability to get it. And their answer is it's just frozen right now. It's frozen in the pipeline. It's frozen at the rig."
"It's frozen at the transmission line. So the natural gas providers are incapable of being able to come up with a gas that feeds into the generators that generate the power that will send power to the residences in the Dallas area."
"The reason why power is not available for your viewers is because the power generators froze up and their equipment was incapable of generating power and the natural gas that flows into those generators froze up also."
As @kidstatic notes, many of these problems were fully described in a postmortem of the 2011 winter Texas blackout disaster. https://twitter.com/kidstatic/status/1361916593186430976
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/gov-abbott-says-ercot-anything-but-reliable-with-millions-of-customers-powerless-in-record-cold/vi-BB1dKp9B
"Natural gas is frozen and incapable of being moved."
"Natural gas is frozen and incapable of being moved."
Here the socialist @GovAbbott blames "private providers."
. @GovAbbott: "One of the lead reasons in the Houston area in particular that caused power outages was the South Texas Nuclear Project was shut down because of an operational difficulty."
