NEWS
Citizens share their anger with Bellevue School board on wind farm development
By BARBARA GREEN
The Bellevue School gym is usually filled with enthusiastic Eagles’ fans, but Tuesday night it was filled with more than 125 angry residents, the majority who do not want wind farms in Clay or neighboring Montague Counties.
School trustees provided an open forum for citizens to make their opinions public and out of the 20 citizens speaking only one offered support for the wind farm development. Officials with Apex Clean Energy spoke to the board, as did a representative of the Clay County Against Wind Farms group.
The Black Angus Wind project plans to produce 270 megawatts of electricity with the majority of the farm’s location in Bellevue Independent School District with a portion in neighboring Bowie ISD.
This new development would follow on the heels of the Shannon Wind Farm that went on line in December 2015 with 119 wind turbines spreading out across more than 10,000 acres in the southwest corner of the county producing 204 MW. Its construction was funded with the assistance of tax abatements from Midway ISD and Clay County. The farm is valued at $3 million.
Read the full story in the weekend News.
Click on the link below to take part in a survey about wind farm development in Montague County.
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Montague County Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. on Dec. 23.
The court will consider obligating $276,961.84 of American Rescue Plan funds to completing the new wastewater treatment plant that will serve the courthouse complex. Commissioners have been working on this project much of the year.
Montague County will apply to the Nortex Regional Planning Commission for a solid waste disposal grant to purchase a tire cutter for use by all four precincts.
Developers for Kingdom Estates Phase 2 subdivision will offer a plant for lots 6-10, 16.06 acres located in precinct two.
A cooperative agreement between Texas A&M AgriLife Extension and the county will be presented, along with a non-exclusive license and service agreement between Local Government Solutions and Justices of the Peace one and two.
Annual bonds for seven elected officials will be offered, along with the county attorney’s 2024 Chapter 59 Asset Forfeiture report.
Montague County has received a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist individuals with the purchase and installation of a residential storm shelter.
The shelter must be FEMA-approved and individuals must install and pay for the shelter. After installation and passing an inspection, the individual could be eligible for 50% reimbursement of the cost of the storm shelter up to a maximum $3,000 reimbursement.
The initial program allows for financial assistance for the installation of up to 100 storm shelters. Visit the Montague County website at co.montague.tx.us and click on “Safe Room Program,” and under quick links to see the qualifications and requirements for participation in the program.
There is no deadline to apply, but only 100 applicants will be accepted
It’s here, the first day of winter marked by the winter solstice at 4:21 a.m. on Dec. 21.
The winter solstice is the day with the fewest hours of sunlight throughout the year, making it the “shortest day” of the year. Thankfully, after the winter solstice the days begin to grow longer and longer again and until the summer solstice, the first day of summer and the longest day of the year
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