Boone Pickens is about to invest $1.5 billion in Panhandle wind turbines that will produce electricity for North Texas. His Mesa Water and Power companies plan on starting right-of-way acquisition this summer to place a water pipeline and electric lines.
Save Our Springs, which has battled developers over the Edwards Aquifer and our Barton Springs is bankrupt and having trouble getting a judge to accept their replayment plan. The group has lost some sway in Austin recently and could end up like their beat up old nemesis Gary Bradley. I linked to a new documentary on the SOS-Bradley duel here.
The Seminole water utility is piloting a wind-powered desalination plant to treat water from the Santa Rosa aquifer. It will produce 30,000 gallons a day from a 50 kilowatt turbine.
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