We need your support!

Dear Blue Neighbors,

Is fifty dollars too much for you to spend to help protect the rural quality of life in your community?

If your answer is “Of course not,” then here’s how you can help do that. 

As you may know, Sandow Lakes Energy is proposing to build a huge natural gas power generation plant in the Blue community, at the intersection of CR 309 and CR 312.

If built, this power plant would harm our community in several ways including air pollution, increased noise, lights and traffic, and decreased property values.  It could also impact our surface and groundwater resources.

We, the members of the Move the Gas Plant steering committee, are working hard to ensure that never happens. 

But we need your help NOW!  

And the best way you can do that right now is to donate money. 

We have launched a legal challenge to Sandow Lakes Energy’s application to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for an emissions permit.

We’ve hired the premier public-interest environmental law firm in Texas, Perales, Allmon & Ice.  The firm has already requested a contested case hearing be held over the company’s application.

We are under no illusions about the difficulty of beating a permit at the TCEQ.  But there is precedent.  These kinds of power plants have been opposed and beaten before in Texas. 

In order for our legal challenge to be effective, we need monetary support from the Blue community.  To those of you who already have donated, THANK YOU!

So, please consider joining the effort to stop this gas plant from being built in Blue. Fifty dollars.  One hundred.  Five hundred. Any amount you can give will help.

Please make a check out to Move the Gas Plant and send it to Move the Gas Plant, P.O. Box 286, Lexington, TX 78947.

Or, you can go to the secure “Donate” page at www.movethegasplant.org, where you can contribute using PayPal or a credit card. 

And remember, your donation is tax deductible.  For more information on that and for updates on our efforts, please visit the website above. 

 P.S. If you have received letters from us by mail, you can help us save postage by letting us know your email address at info@movethegasplant.org. We never share email addresses with others.  (See next paragraph for how to sign up on our Home Page.) A And please fill out the survey you will receive by mail in December.

And if you are a member of the private Facebook groups - Move the Gas Plant – Blue TX, or Blue Neighborhood Watch, but haven’t joined our email group, please join us at info@movethegasplant.org! Go to the Home Page and use the sign-up form, and please give us your phone number for "short-fuse" notifications --- we won't abuse it.

THANK YOU!

Move the Gas Plant Steering Committee:

Travis Brown                                                              Jeri Matthys

Michele Gangnes                                                     Hugh Brown

Sheril Smith                                                               Georgia Canfield

Don Goerner                                                             Serena Formby

Ward Taylor                                                              Mariah Holton

Lynn Cain                                                                  Clark Johnson

Rachel Cain Bailey                                                  David Goodwin

Lisa Moore                                                                 Sylvia Soto

Cathy Cambell                                                         Ed Harvey 

Trish Siler                                                                   Donna Westbrook