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...offered “a special thanks to our freshmen friends in Holworthy for making such an extended effort to bring this to our attention.” Schofield-Bodt and Jones say that time constraints will prevent them from changing the tour route to wind around Mower. Instead of tour guides pointing to Holworthy when talking about Gore and Jones, Schofield-Bodt says they will now “just not point anywhere at all.” The two are now asking for the campus’ help to find the former residence of Unabomber Theodore J. Kaczynski...
...While old, rickety wooden mills dot ranchlands across Texas - pumping water for stock tanks and standing as emblematic silhouettes of the Old West - their modern 400-ft.-plus-tall steel counterparts have sprung up across the state, pushing Texas into the lead over California as the country's top wind-energy producer. With the backing of environmental groups and the support of the state's conservative Republican leadership, wind-energy projects are increasing in number...
...there is little regulatory oversight of the projects, and so the fight is being taken to state courthouses and pitting neighbor against neighbor. The first lawsuit is set to begin in this week in Abilene as 18 residents of Taylor County sue their neighbors and FPL Energy, claiming the wind turbines are a public nuisance that spoil their views, create noise and cast strobelike flicker effects as the sun sets behind the giant propellers...
...Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center, the farm at the center of this first lawsuit, became the largest wind farm in the world in October with 421 wind towers spread over 47,000 acres of scrubby ranchland 20 miles southwest of Abilene. Once a rowdy frontier cattle town, Abilene now touts itself as the wind energy capital of the world. The lawsuit has brought the city's past and present into conflict. Most of the 18 plaintiffs in the case, according to their Houston attorney Steve Thompson, work in Abilene - among them a doctor, a professor and a gym owner...
...Many other ranchers have welcomed the turbines onto to their land and view them as a way to keep family lands intact. Companies generally pay an initial easement access fee, usually in the low six figures, followed by monthly wind royalty checks, perhaps $500 for each turbine. But some guardians of Texas lands and legacy are less amenable, among them Jack Hunt, chief executive officer of the legendary King Ranch, headquartered in South Texas. A recent bid by a Scottish company to build a wind farm on the neighboring Kenedy Ranch brought Hunt into the fray and conflict between...