Posted by admin | Jan 16, 2019 | Legislature and Regulation, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Scenic Beauty, Transmission Lines & Wind Farms
If you want to cook up a battle over private property rights in Texas, here’s the recipe: Take a handful of sprawling cities and growing populations that are expanding into once-rural areas, add a booming oil and gas industry with a desperate need for new pipelines to...
Posted by admin | Sep 23, 2018 | Land Stewardship, Landowner Alliances, Legislature and Regulation, News, Scenic Beauty, Transmission Lines & Wind Farms
Conflicts between energy producers and conservationists are nothing new in Texas, but a recent fight in Val Verde County centers around wind farms and whether they belong in one of the wildest natural areas left in the state. Members of the Devils River Conservancy,...
Posted by admin | Jan 18, 2016 | Conservation Easements, News, Transmission Lines & Wind Farms
“In a case pitting electricity demand against Hill Country conservation efforts, the owner of the largest piece of private permanently preserved land in Gillespie County is making a last-ditch effort to persuade state regulators to change the route of a planned...
Posted by admin | Jan 13, 2016 | Conservation Easements, News, Transmission Lines & Wind Farms
The Lower Colorado River Authority has proposed to construct a large electrical transmission line across the largest piece of protected land — public or private — in Gillespie County, southwest of Austin. Owned by Terese T. Hershey, a renowned conservationist, the...
Posted by admin | Nov 6, 2015 | News, Transmission Lines & Wind Farms
Adding a wind farm to its Lone Star energy portfolio in the scenic Texas Hill Country is proving to be much tougher than setting up shop on the high Texas plains for Enel Green Power North America. Folks in Mason, where construction of the wind project is proposed,...
Posted by admin | Nov 1, 2015 | News, Transmission Lines & Wind Farms
The Save our Scenic Hill Country Environment (SOSHCE) Annual Membership Meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 7 pm in the Central Texas Electric Co-op Community Room at 386 Friendship Lane in Fredericksburg. The featured presentations will provide...
