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Thanks for the heads up.  It will be interesting to see how Hopkins County landowners feel about wind farms.

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Yes also why the need for all these local energy sources?  Something may be planned in this area.  As you noted above solar and wind in NE Texas topography must be much more costly.  So what justifies the extra cost that it needs to produced locally?  

Good thoughts and questions.  My first thought is, are those the actual leases being recorded in the public record or memorandums of lease? If the full lease is recorded, there may be some clues in the language.  Then again, would a wind farm in Hopkins County have the means to connect to the grid?  If this is for local energy needs, what industry would require that electrical capacity?  We have a rural NE LA data center in the planning stages but the utility is planning one or more gas fired generating plants.  Would a wind farm generate enough power for a data center?  Would a lithium company with plans for an E TX DLE plant be interested in wind energy? It seems a strange location for a wind farm!

Only a memo of the wind leases are filed but certainly appears even from memo only covers wind.  Also the Marvin-Nichols reservoir which has been on again and off again for decades is all of a sudden brought back up.  This proposed lake that has always been opposed by the locals is on the Sulphur River which is the North boundary of Franklin, Titus and Hopkins counties.  So this lake in the same area could be a source of hydroelectric power.  A possible additional power source although would take years to complete the timing seems strange.

Chttps://preservenortheasttexas.org/controversy-over-proposed-marvin-nichols-reservoir-again/ontroversy over proposed Marvin Nichols Reservoir again

The DFW metroplex has been looking for additional water capacity and the Marvin-Nichols Reservoir is likely to be for that purpose but it could certainly be a source of hydro-power.  The advent of memorandums has made it difficult to know what is going on with ground and subsurface leases.  Just as the industry intended.

Standard Lithium had a big meeting this morning to discuss Franklin County plans and leases. Anyone know any details?
Is there anyway to private message on this site?

It's possible but there are some limitations.  You can click on a members name in blue and it will take you to their personal page where you can leave a message.  The limitation comes in regarding how that member has set up their personal page and preferences.  They can choose to keep their page private and not allow anyone to see the content.  They can choose to let their "friends" have access but not others.

Go to the top of the main page and click on My Page and you will be able to see the ways you can set up access to your page.  You should send a "friend" request to those who you would care to message privately.  You can request them to keep your messages and comments private.

I expect that the the Mount Vernon Optic - Herald will have an article this week.  You can also check out the Franklin County Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/p/Franklin-County-TX-County-News-100077287...

I don't think anyone is sure about the law in Texas regarding produced Brine to refine Lithium.  See this recent presentation in PowerPoint.

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