The Lower Colorado River Authority is planning to build 180 foot high voltage lines through private properties, over highways, and over neighborhoods in the Texas Hill Country. The Texas Legislators authorized the LCRA to construct these lines. Current and former electric company employees have stated that the existing power lines in the Hill Country can be upgraded to send electricity to the "IH-35 Corridor" rather than building new lines. LCRA refuses to consider this option or building the lines down IH-10.
If you would like to keep the scenic Texas Hill Country beautiful, please sign our petition to stop the LCRA from building these dangerous, ugly, and unnecessary high voltage lines. Visit our website for more information. http://www.lcralandgrab.com/
The Lower Colorado River Authority is planning to build 180 foot high voltage lines through private properties, over highways, and over neighborhoods in the Texas Hill Country. The Texas Legislators authorized the LCRA to construct these lines. Current and former electric company employees have stated that the existing power lines in the Hill Country can be upgraded to send electricity to the "IH-35 Corridor" rather than building new lines. LCRA refuses to consider this option or building the lines down IH-10.
If you would like to keep the scenic Texas Hill Country beautiful, please sign our petition to stop the LCRA from building these dangerous, ugly, and unnecessary high voltage lines. Visit our website for more information. http://www.lcralandgrab.com/
Lower Colorado River Authority and Public Utility Commission of Texas want to construct three new, double-circuit capable, bundled conductor, 345-kilovolt transmission lines through the heart of the Texas Hill Country to connect west Texas wind energy to substations in Kerr, Gillespie and Kendall Counties. All in the name of the renewable energy craze.
The high voltage lines consist of steel lattice structures 180 feet tall and 700 feet apart that will look like giant, steel scars across the most beautiful, pristine lands in Texas! The LCRA will clear 160 foot wide paths of vegetation for the easements and utility trucks and machinery to have access. This will kill off and displace thousands of animals and subject Hill Country Residents to health risks.
Please vote to stop this attack on private property rights which will devalue property that has been in some families for more than 150 years. Please vote to stop this proposal that will permanently destroy one of the most beautiful areas of our state. Please vote to stop this proposal that could seriously thwart the area's most dominant industry - tourism.
There is no reason to construct a new line that gashes across the Texas Hill Country when there are already transmission lines connecting the West Texas substation to the Kendall County substation. We have been in contact with electric company employees that attest to the fact that existing transmission lines can be upgraded to transport the electricity without having to build new lines.
Please listen to the voices of the residents, land owners, and visitors of the Texas Hill Country. We do not want our beautiful landscape, native wildlife, and endangered species harmed by needless high lines.
We signed the "STOP the Destruction of the Texas Hill Country" petition!
# 46:
8:41 am PDT, Oct 22,David Currie, Texas
We are having the same problem with proposed power lines spanning a very unique and beautiful portion of the northern part of the Palo Duro canyon in the Panhandle of Texas. There is absolutely no reason that the utility companies cannot use existing power line corridors to achieve their objectives. The utility companies have proven that they have abosolutely no regard for historic and aesthetic values or maintaining the environmental integrity of unique property throughout the State of Texas. These actions taken by the utilities need to be stopped.
# 45:
9:26 am PDT, Oct 4,Nadia Davidovich, Argentina
HELP!!!!!!!
Please sign my PETITION: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/clean-the-streams
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
# 44:
9:14 pm PDT, Sep 30,Glenn Brown, Nebraska
# 43:
7:35 pm PDT, Sep 23,Heather Willstrop, Texas
Please don't let them ruin the beautiful hill country that I grew up with. The more it is developed the more it's going to become urban. What will they call the hill country when it's leveled and paved?
# 42:
1:46 pm PDT, Aug 18,Margene Scott, Texas
The current lines go nearly over my house. I don't want these huge lines to do the same.
# 41:
12:45 pm PDT, Jul 31,Tammy Roland, Texas
# 40:
5:05 am PDT, Jul 26,Octavian Paul Draja, Romania
# 39:
6:32 am PDT, Jul 25,Sylwia Podgórska, Poland
# 38:
11:07 am PDT, Jul 23,Janice LeBlan, Texas
We own historial property in the hill country and also there is grave site on our property and as we understand it, LCRA is going to cut right thru our property and we have not heard one single word from them.
# 37:
8:50 pm PDT, Jul 20,Steve Dale, Australia
# 36:
12:47 pm PDT, Jul 16,Julie Sanford, Texas
# 35:
11:12 am PDT, Jul 13,ALPHA WI, Germany
# 34:
1:47 am PDT, Jul 11,Gail Dair, Australia
# 33:
1:12 am PDT, Jul 11,Ralph Xx, Germany
# 32:
3:35 pm PDT, Jul 10,Monica Salazar, Puerto Rico
# 31:
7:55 am PDT, Jul 8,Ira Gayll Zamudio, Philippines
# 30:
3:35 pm PDT, Jul 6,Becky Visco, Texas
# 29:
1:22 am PDT, Jul 6,Charles Mclachlan, United Kingdom
# 28:
10:45 pm PDT, Jul 5,Pam Boland, Georgia
# 27:
9:57 pm PDT, Jul 5,Sonya Baca, California
# 26:
6:43 pm PDT, Jul 5,Ernie McLaney, North Carolina
There are other options here as noted. We must stop destroying our remaining natural and scenic habitats. The LCRA must study the options over the long haul, not simply a quick fix.
# 25:
2:54 pm PDT, Jul 5,Pablo Pinho, California
# 24:
11:14 am PDT, Jul 5,Jacqueline Robinson, Georgia
# 23:
10:07 am PDT, Jul 5,JOHN KEGLER, California
# 22:
9:56 am PDT, Jul 5,Dawn Hixson, Alabama
# 21:
7:18 am PDT, Jul 5,Melanie Macadam, India
# 20:
3:10 am PDT, Jul 5,Steve Klein, Virginia
# 19:
11:24 pm PDT, Jul 4,Diane Van Weelie, Netherlands
# 18:
9:19 pm PDT, Jul 4,Scott Lambert, Texas
# 17:
9:18 pm PDT, Jul 4,Jesse Wheeler, Texas
# 16:
9:15 pm PDT, Jul 4,Daniel Wheeler, Texas
# 14:
9:12 pm PDT, Jul 4,Rachel Wheeler, Texas
# 13:
7:24 pm PDT, Jul 4,Anthony Montapert, California
# 12:
4:15 pm PDT, Jul 4,Dick Artley, Idaho
# 11:
2:33 pm PDT, Jul 4,Lynn Barnes, Michigan
# 10:
10:39 am PDT, Jul 4,Jemma Browning, United Kingdom
