Posted by admin | Feb 1, 2019 | Legislature and Regulation, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Scenic Beauty
A fight over a pipeline is never only about the pipeline. It’s about the environment, property rights, public safety and a community’s sense of itself. Just such a fight is now brewing in the Texas Hill Country, where company Kinder Morgan plans to lay a part of its...
Posted by admin | Jan 28, 2019 | News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Scenic Beauty
Pipeline company says rerouting around Gillespie not an option Kinder Morgan, the pipeline company looking to cross Gillespie County and the Hill Country, will host a public meeting from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21 at the Gillespie County Fair Grounds. The open house...
Posted by admin | Jan 24, 2019 | News, Scenic Beauty, Transmission Lines & Wind Farms
The Devils River Conservancy, is spearheading the “Don’t Blow It” campaign to advocate for thoughtful regulation of wind energy development — an industry quickly expanding in rural Texas, largely without rules and with serious negative implications for Texans. While...
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 | Jan 7, 2019 | News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Planning and Development, Regional Planning, Scenic Beauty
FREDERICKSBURG — Hank Sauer reminisces about the 18 years he’s owned these 45 acres a few miles south of Fredericksburg — hunting deer with his now-17-year-old grandson, spending holidays there with the family, and dreaming of spending the rest of his days with his...
Posted by admin | Jan 4, 2019 | News, Night Skies, Scenic Beauty
Serbian artists Ivana Jelić and Pavle Petrović have reimagined Van Gogh’s famous painting The Starry Night as an LED installation over the canals of Amsterdam, to highlight the issue of light pollution in urban areas. A series of 1,400 acrylic rods illuminated...