Last week, American Stewards reported on the $33 billion statewide plan to construct new 765KV transmission lines that threaten to condemn 4000 linear miles of private property. These new Transmission lines make the state look busy while landowners pay the price. Texas doesn’t have a power transportation problem, it has a power reliability problem. We can’t transmit power that doesn’t exist.
There are three main lines made up of five segments traversing Texas from east to west with the “goal” of transmitting electricity from East Texas to the Permian Basin in West Texas. This doesn’t make sense when you realize the Permian Basin holds our nation’s largest deposits of oil and gas.
With that type of energy at their disposal, it is very questionable why the state says West Texas needs electricity when they could be generating their own locally with the natural gas found beneath their feet.
American Stewards intervened in ONCOR Electric Delivery Company’s (ONCOR) application to build the most northern line known as the Longshore Switch to Drill Hole Switch 765KV transmission line dissecting 10 Texas counties.
An intervention is a lawsuit filed on behalf of landowners, whose land is directly affected, during the state’s process of issuing a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity (CCN) that gives the public utility (ONCOR) the exclusive right to provide electrical service to a specific geographic area.
If the CCN is granted, it also gives ONCOR the right to condemn private property.
Landowners Needed for Standing on the Big Hill to Sand Lake Line
Earlier this month, the second CCN was filed for the middle line known as the Big Hill to Sand Lake section (See map) which includes the counties of Ward, Reeves, Crane, Upton, Reagan, Irion, Crockett and Pecos.
American Stewards is asking for any of our members whose land is directly affected by any of these proposed lines, to send us your name, the description, location and county where your property lies, the name of the line running through your property, and permission to represent you in our next Intervention on the Big Hill to Sand Lake line.
In addition, any landowner on any other line is requested to notify ASL with the same information giving us permission to intervene on your behalf.
Send your information to ASL@AmericanStewards.us. We will keep you informed as to our actions and those of the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) once our Intervention is filed.
