STORM/WIND DAMAGE

March 3-4, 2025 Cunningham - Deport, Texas area!!

Friends of Franklin County, Texas, and all of nature:

You'll see the devastation of one windstorm which destroyed solar panels which covered thousands of acres just across the Franklin County north boundary along the Sulphur River.  After about one year of operations.

Just a matter of time until a storm gets the ones along 7 miles of our county’s boundary to the north. 

And now Samsung (Seoul) plans to put about 5,000 acres under panels on the south side of the river in our county.

 Check out the website for Stewards of Texas https://stewardsoftexas.org/impacts  dedicated to safeguarding our state’s ecological and cultural legacy encouraging innovations in renewable energy that are environmentally sound. 

We must have regulation of this unregulated unreliable intermittent industry. 

State Representative Brent Money has filed HB 3017 to level the playing field based on the huge federal tax credits paid to foreign developers who come here to despoil our land.

State Senator Lois Kolkhorst, our State Senator Bryan Hughes, and several other senators are sponsoring Senate Bill 819 to adopt setbacks for wind and solar and to protect Texas lands.  Here are the links to the Texas House and Senate  - https://www.house.texas.gov/ and https://senate.texas.gov/. 

Please let our leaders in Austin know that we need regulation and protection now; we cannot live with the threat of more storms and more destruction).

Many other bills have been filed.  The FB page for Save Van Zandt County and the website  (https://savevzcounty.org)     

carries great summaries.  Worth checking out their summaries of bills designed to protect all of us.

Please let our leaders (including our county commissioners) know that we can’t pass up this opportunity;  The legislature won’t convene in full session for another 2 years.  We need regulations now.

Also, check out this link.

https://www.facebook.com/SaveFranklinCountyTexas 

These photos were taken by Chase Hyman.