Landowners Opposition Coalesces against Trans Pecos Pipeline. 6 Points from Texas Monthly.

He said/She said/They Said abounds with the TransPecos pipeline. Its like a love triangle with the drama of a telenovela:

• Trans Pecos says it has precondemnation access agreements with 95% of landowners in the path of Trans Pecos pipeline route
• Landowners say even if landowners allow access for surveying, it doesn’t mean that they support having their land taken. In fact, some still oppose the pipeline.
• Texas Monthly says opposition to the pipeline has been centered in Marfa, Alpine, and Fort Davis
• Brad Newton, the executive director of the Presidio Municipal Development District says that they welcome the jobs and economic growth
• Texas Monthly says supporters of the pipeline don’t have an impassioned grassroots movement behind them, but they do have one advantage: state law is largely on their side
• Pipeline opponents are holding fast to the memory of past battles. Activists in the region successfully fought against a nuclear waste dump in Sierra Blanca in the nineties and foiled El Paso’s attempts to take the area’s scarce water resources a decade ago. 

Texas Monthly: A Pipeline in the Sand