– The rain is what ranchers pray for, but for landowner Andrew Bogar, the sediment he believes it carries is what he’s dreaded.Bogar hoped his sprawling lot of land in Bandera would be his oasis.“Just the magnitude of what it’s going to do to our lives over the next couple of years,” Bogar said.
In March 2024, Judge Pat McGuire signed a temporary injunction pausing Pine Gate Renewables, LLC’s ability to move forward with construction.“It filled the tanks with that contaminant,” Bogar said. “And it killed all of our aquatic life. Our turtles.”“At the end of the day, we’re contaminated and they will continue to say they’ve done everything that they could have,” Bogar said of the solar company. “And they haven’t.
Attorney Jenn Rosenblatt, who represents the landowners, said, “These are people’s houses. These are people’s lives.”“They have failed and refused to do anything,” Rosenblatt said of Pine Gate Renewables, LLC. “We have tried to get them to do testing. They won’t. We have tried to show them the flow of the water. They have ignored it. And what they are doing is making the flow worse.”
Rosenblatt is asking the judge to require Pine Gate and Rio Lago to install a sediment control measure.Bogar said cleaning up the contaminants is complicated.“A win in this case would have been stopping it before it happened,” he said. “It’s a loss now. There’s no win now. There’s no win for anybody.”Landowners claim solar company is breaking court order to halt construction of Bandera solar farmDaniela Ibarra joined the KSAT News team in July 2023.
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