Why a Central Texas farmer is on a oneman mission to stop renewable energy

ODESSA — As wind turbines and solar panels spread through farmland in Central Texas, Robert Fleming has made it his calling to stop them.

Four years ago, the 61-year-old convinced a school board in Troy not to approve a tax incentive for a renewable energy company. When Bell County commissioners considered a similar tax break a year later, he showed up to the commissioners court with reinforcements, urging them to reject a company’s request. He failed.

That hasn’t deterred him from his crusade against the industry.