Members of the Bandera Canyonlands Alliance who packed the Utopia senior center on Saturday, Oct. 12, were happy that a planned crude oil pipeline was being rerouted around the Edwards Aquifer and other environmentally sensitive property in the area but were upset that they had so little control over where potentially hazardous projects may be established in the future.
“Oil and gas is important in Texas, but there needs to be some restrictions on what those companies can do on private property,” said Merry Langlinais, who is president of the alliance, during one of the breaks it its fall meeting. “We ...