by admin | Mar 5, 2019 | Legislature and Regulation, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines
At a public hearing on Monday, state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst — who has long tried to strengthen protections for landowners facing condemnation — challenged officials from fossil fuel groups who said her latest legislation would drag down energy production. For years now,...
by admin | Mar 1, 2019 | Legislature and Regulation, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Planning and Development
Kinder Morgan is moving full-speed ahead with its plan to route a 430-mile, 42-inch natural gas pipeline through the center of Hays County—but local governments are making their opposition to the project known. Hays County Commissioners Court voted unanimously at its...
by admin | Mar 1, 2019 | Legislature and Regulation, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Planning and Development
At two meetings last week about the proposed Kinder Morgan 42-inch natural gas pipeline project, landowners expressed displeasure with the routing of the giant project through land that, in some cases, stretches back generations. A landowner meeting was held Tuesday,...
by admin | Feb 26, 2019 | News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Scenic Beauty
The Wimberley Valley Watershed Association is currently working to oppose and reroute the Permian Highway Gas & Oil Pipeline OUT of the Texas Hill Country and away from the Edwards and Trinity Aquifers. WVWA will be hosting a fundraiser event and kick off for...
by admin | Feb 13, 2019 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Scenic Beauty
The golden-cheeked warbler — a compact, yellow-headed songbird that migrates from Mexico to Central Texas each March — is in trouble. The endangered species, which nests nowhere else but the cedar breaks of the Texas Hill Country and surrounding areas, has in recent...
by admin | Feb 12, 2019 | Legislature and Regulation, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Planning and Development
AUSTIN — There is an information vacuum when it comes to private companies using eminent domain in Texas. Even though eminent domain is a governmental power that is supposed to be used only for the public good, private entities who use eminent domain have very few...
