Prompting cheers from the large crowd gathered at City Hall, the San Marcos City Council unanimously approved a resolution opposing the Kinder Morgan Permian Highway Pipeline’s proposed route through the Hill Country.
In addition to stating the city’s opposition to the pipeline, the resolution requests “immediate action by all members of both houses of the Texas Legislature to protect landowners, landowners’ property rights and communities from the negative impact of PHP and other potential oil and gas pipelines.”
Before the council’s vote, representatives from Kinder Morgan and the Wimberley Valley Watershed Association were given 10 minutes each to state their case.
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