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
Join us! Our greatest need is for resources to carry on the fight against Sandow Lakes Energy's air quality permit. Every bit helps, and together, we can let Sandow Lakes Energy know we are united in our opposition to ruining our beautiful rural community.
But don't hesitate to VOLUNTEER a little or a lot of your time and talent. Please use the CONTACT US page to let us know you want to be on our volunteer list.
Move the Gas Plant is the registered "doing business as" name of Lee County-based Neighbors for Neighbors, Inc., a Texas nonprofit organization.
Neighbors for Neighbors, Inc. is designated as a 501(c)(3) charitable, tax-exempt organization by the Internal Revenue Service.
Its charitable purposes specifically include: helping to form and guide community groups that focus on local environmental protection and restoration, protection of wildlife and allied natural resources, assurance of the public health, maintenance of property values, and building community.
Contributions to Move the Gas Plant are tax-deductible if the donor is otherwise eligible for the deduction.
You may donate by using our secure online DONATE button on this page.
OR you may send a check right now to:
Move the Gas Plant
P.O. Box 286
Lexington, TX 78947-0286
We send all donors an annual receipt with tax information.
Your generous support and contributions will fund our mission to protect a rural Texas community, the fastest growing Lee County community of families, and a great place to live.
Thank you!