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‘Whether I like it or not': Landowners express frustration at Jacksboro open house
Muted anger and a rustle of frustration moseyed through the Twin Lakes Community Activity Center in Jacksboro Wednesday night.
Around 75 area landowners attended an open house sponsored by billionaire T. Boone Pickens' company Mesa Power in an effort to learn more about the company's right-of-way project that will run a water pipeline and electric transmission lines through the heart of several North Texas counties. ...
Jack County landowner Drexel West smoked a cigarette with noticeable aggravation outside the building after discussing the project with representatives of Harris Deville & Associates, an issues management firm hired by Pickens to handle the public relations end of the project.
West's assessment of the issue echoed many in the building.
"They are coming through, one way or the other, whether I like it or not," he said.
May 22, 2008
by Lara K. Richards
in Times Record News
Muted anger and a rustle of frustration moseyed through the Twin Lakes Community Activity Center in Jacksboro Wednesday night.
Around 75 area landowners attended an open house sponsored by billionaire T. Boone Pickens' company Mesa Power in an effort to learn more about the company's right-of-way project that will run a water pipeline and electric transmission lines through the heart of several North Texas counties.
The project aims to transport water from the Ogallala Aquifer in the Panhandle to the Dallas-Fort Worth area as well as send electricity generated from a Panhandle-based wind farm eastward to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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