Proposed Transmission Line Threatens Texas’ Largest Reservoir

Proposed Transmission Line Threatens Texas’ Largest Reservoir

Houstonian Mike Peppercorn bought property along Lake Livingston in 2008, choosing timberland where his family would have privacy and pasture where they could raise cattle for Future Farmers of America projects. He and his neighbors with acreage along Barrett’s Landing Road all figured that surely this lake—which serves as a reservoir for the City of Houston 80 miles south—was an invaluable public resource that would forever be protected. That s…

New gigawatt scale battery proposed for key transmission crossroads

Brookfield-owned company sends another big battery into federal EPBC queue, this time at a critical transmission junction that has already attracted interest of others.