Back To The Drawing Board For Pipeline Proponents. In a surprise move today, County manager Pat Whitten announced that the pipeline proposal under consideration is off the table. After moving to combine 10 agenda items into one single item, Mr. Whitten announced to a surprised audience that one of the …

Packed House For Lockwood Pipeline Meeting A standing room only crowd of nearly a hundred River District residents packed the Lockwood Senior Center to hear Storey County Commission Candidate Nicole Barde address the facts of the TRIC pipeline proposal. The crowd was nearly twice the size of the Lockwood Pipeline …

Coverage of Pipeline Deal in Local Media Outlets On August 7th, the Storey County Commissioners voted to move forward on the proposed Pipeline Project at TRIC. Four places wrote about the meeting; the Comstock Chronicle, Storey County, bardeblog.com and The Storey Teller. In this article will compare and contrast that …

Question:  When Is A $35 million dollar Pipeline Not A $35 million dollar Pipeline? Answer:  When you have to borrow money to pay for it. On August 7th, Storey County Commissioners approved moving forward on a plan to borrow money for an effluent pipeline. The pipeline would divert future County …

Storey County Commissioners Approve The TRIC Pipeline Proposal to Move Forward Fulcrum Bio-Energies financing bonds also approved providing an interesting contrast to the TRIC pipeline proposal Details Of The TRIC Proposal are nearly identical to the old deal that was nixed by the State of Nevada; only semantics seem to …

In what may (or may not) be an epic win for Storey County Taxpayers, the effort to use SB1 to fund the TRIC effluent pipeline has been withdrawn from consideration by the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED). Jeremy Aguero of Applied Analysis announced the decision at the January 18th …

The Governors Office of Economic Development (GOED) met at the Capitol yesterday for it’s November board meeting. Item 7 on the agenda for discussion and possible approval was the TRIC effluent pipeline bond measure we have been covering since it was first floated at the Storey County Commissioners meeting some …

Virginia City Highlands resident Jay Carmona organized a meeting at the Firehouse to learn more about the TRIC Pipeline Proposal that will use county tax revenue to repay over 29 years. The Governers Office of Economic Development is working with Storey County Commissioners, TRIC landowners and TRIC itself to take …

Effluent Pipeline Deal Could  Cost Storey County Taxpayers up to $60 Million The August 1st Commissioners Meeting agenda included a proposal for Storey County Taxpayers to borrow $35 Million Dollars to purchase 19 miles of pipeline for the TRIC General Improvement District to transfer effluent purchased from Washoe County. TRIC …

Special Interest Money Dominates Storey County Commissioner Races As the first weekend of early voting draws to a close in Storey County, The four candidates vying for the two open County Commission seats filed their financial documents. They are very telling. Candidate Filings According to the Nevada Secretary of State’s …