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Wind lines questioned
The route for a wind-energy transmission line from near Childress to the Lefors area ...crosses through lesser prairie-chicken habitat, posing a risk of federal curtailment of all sorts of economic activity.
County commissioners also filed a resolution asking for a different transmission-line route to avoid prairie-chicken habitat.
September 11, 2010
by Kevin Welch
in Amarillo Globe-News
Gray County Commissioners are asking to be heard by the Public Utility Commission on Wednesday.
The route for a wind-energy transmission line from near Childress to the Lefors area that resulted from an agreement among the commission, the builder and landowners crosses through lesser prairie-chicken habitat, posing a risk of federal curtailment of all sorts of economic activity.
"It hasn't been classified as endangered, but it's No. 2 on the list," said Gray County Judge Richard Peet.
He wrote a letter filed at the PUC Tuesday that says Cross Texas Transmission, the builder and operator of the line, may not have followed... [continue via Web link]
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