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Residents of north Lee County, Texas have come together to "Move the Gas Plant" away from the rural community of Blue in Lee County to a more appropriate location for a 1200 MW natural gas power generation plant.  The appropriate location for the proposed Sandow Lakes Energy plant is the old Alcoa industrial site, some 15 miles away. 

A dozen neighbors formed a Steering Committee to explore options for making this happen and ultimately decided to partner with Neighbors for Neighbors, Inc., a Lee County-based 501c3 charitable organization.  Neighbors for Neighbors, Inc. dba Move the Gas Plant has taken on this effort. 

Locating the gas plant in Blue would dramatically alter the rural nature of an historic community. Located at the intersection of CR 309 and 312, the proposed site is on a strip of Sandow Lakes Ranch that extends into north Lee County.   

The site is bordered by private farms, ranches and homes, and is very near the Adina Christian Church which was founded by an ancestor of a close neighbor to the power plant site.

Negative impacts of the gas plant likely would at least include decreased property values in the Blue community; increased noise, lights and traffic;  groundwater and surface water impacts; air pollution harmful to human health; and unreasonable burdens on our first responders. 

The plant would have far fewer negative impacts in a less populated area.  If the plant were built amid the 33,000-acre Sandow Lakes Ranch property in Milam County at the site of the old Alcoa aluminum smelter and coal power plants, it would be sited far from any private farms, ranches and homes.  

Join us in working to make common sense a reality.  Why destroy a lovely rural Texas community when a much more suitable and feasible site for the proposed gas plant is nearby?   

We are pursuing legal rights to challenge the air emissions permit the gas plant needs to operate in our community of many affected residents.  That's an expensive proposition so we need the support of our communities and the support of other rural communities who may face the same challenges. We are pursuing all sources of funding, but there is no substitute for the grass-roots funding we need as our foundation.  PLEASE SEE OUR DONATE PAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Won't you help with a little or a lot to let our state know that rural communities cannot be taken for granted, and that we treasure our rural roots and will work hard to preserve them? If we do nothing, the result is assured --- join us now to make a difference! We can't do it without the support of local residents and landowners who should not have to have their considerable financial and personal investments in Blue marginalized. Share this website with your neighbors --- we strive to get the word out, but you can help us.

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