A resolution opposing the Permian Highway Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline set to run through a portion of Hays County, passed unanimously in commissioners court Tuesday morning, though the county has invited representatives from the pipeline company to speak to commissioners court next week.
“This isn’t an attack on oil and gas,” Precinct 3 Commissioner Lon Shell said. “… But this is just not what’s best for Hays County.”
Members of the public, including representatives from environmental groups, spoke to the court and expressed their concerns about water quality, economic impact, safety, property rights and other issues tied to the proposed routing of the pipeline through the Wimberley Valley. Kinder Morgan, the company building the pipeline from Fort Stockton to refineries near the coast, said in an interview with the Daily Record that it will be a pipeline in “a 9-foot trench” and that the firm will not build anything unsafe.
