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How it's going
- The Texas Real Estate Advocacy and Defense Coalition, a landowner group, is pushing a measure to require state permits for renewables that would call for environmental assessments, notification of county officials within 25 miles and public meetings. The bill stalled, but a version was amended onto another measure being debated in the session’s waning days. “Some of these projects are five to ten thousand acres and they have zero permitting,” said Jessica Karlsruher, the group’s executive director.
The 4th largest renewable energy developer in the world has it's North American HQ in Houston. The largest renewable energy developer in the world was planning on building it's manufacturing/shipyard for off-shore turbine distribution to source the NE off-shore wind-farms in Galveston. Never a dull moment in the United States.
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My fervent hope is that the business community will be forced to get in the habit of saying "unfortunately we can no longer underwrite the campaigns or lobbying of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party due to the fact that the majority of our customer base is made up of people and you guys are disappointingly serious about the eating of faces."