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#19491772 at 2023-09-05 01:20:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23939: Build Back Comfy Edition
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A wild and dangerous place
Val Verde County, flanked by the Pecos and Devils Rivers, is home to around 50,000 people, the small town of Del Rio, and dozens of family-owned hunting ranches.
The conservation hotspot also provides a critical migratory corridor for monarch butterflies, bats, hundreds of bird species, and a growing number of black bears.
The Seven Oaks Ranch - named after the 400-year-old oak tree that towers over its three-bedroom living quarters - has been in the Walker family for three generations since 1934.
Brothers Wayne, 55, and Philip Walker, 51, inherited it when their father, Kelly, who passed away in 2020. Wayne and Dallas Barrington are co-managing directors.
Philip, who has won several awards for his conservation work alongside his brother, described Seven Oaks as 'one of the last wild and scenic areas in the state of Texas'.
'It can be dangerous, but it's also incredibly beautiful,' he said.
Far removed from civilization and home comforts, the ranch can be an inhospitable place.
Philip joked he had a hard enough time convincing his London-born wife to enjoy the eerie silence that comes from its remote location.
So, it is fair to say he and his family were stunned when they heard the neighboring property, Carma Ranch, had been bought by a Chinese billionaire in 2018.
But their ire was ignited when Sun, via his US company GH America, proposed a mammoth wind farm that would see 46 turbines, some up to 700 feet tall, tower over a landscape largely untouched by mankind.
Opposition to the Blue Hills Wind Development first formed along environmental lines.
Conservation groups, including The Nature Conservancy Texas, The Devils River Conservancy, Bat Conservation International and the North American Butterfly Association, lobbied against the plans, arguing it would ravage ecotourism and cause untold damage to migratory pathways of bats, birds and butterflies.
Unique among these natural treasures is Fern Cave at Monarch Ranch, a prehistoric geological formation home to the largest bat roost in the US.
Although no official count has been completed, the ranch manager, Doug Meyer, 31, estimates that several million Mexican free-tailed bats live in the cave, before flying out en masse to hunt every night in a spectacular vortex.
But Meyer fears the population could be 'decimated' by the turbines, which would stand directly in their flight paths.
The proposed 700-foot structures would dwarf even some of the biggest landmarks in the US, including the 554-foot Washington Monument.
James King, a local realtor who owns a ranch on the Pecos River and founded the Lower Pecos Landowners Group in opposition to the project, said: 'It's like, not only do they want to put it in my face, they want to stick it in my eye.'
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12441595/Texas-ranchers-DEFEAT-Chinese-billionaire-bought-swathes-neighboring-land-build-huge-wind-farm-Beijing-maintain-backdoor-access.html