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Port of Corpus Christi moving energy cargo at scale, shaving uncertainty is often as

Funding Resilience: valuable as shaving minutes.

Grants as Accelerant, Not Oxygen

Ports love grants, but ports also know grants can disappear.

Environment, Resilience,

Britton’s view: build a capital plan that remains viable with- and the Reality of the Gulf Coast out state or federal funding, and treat grants as accelerant —

Corpus Christi sits in a hurricane zone and operates in a helping projects move faster or be built more robustly.

Corpus Christi has funded major work through a mix of regulatory environment where air quality, water quality, and user fees (including fees tied to the energy volumes moving habitat are not optional considerations.

Britton rejects the idea that doing things “the right way” en- through the system) and access to bond markets. The point isn’t the instrument; it’s maintaining the ability to execute vironmentally must be in con