Texas Panhandle Cities Unite Against Energy Company Over Historic Smokehouse Creek Fire

Texas Panhandle Cities Unite Against Energy Company Over Historic Smokehouse Creek Fire

Texas Panhandle – Nearly a year after the Smokehouse Creek Fire scorched more than a million acres across the Texas Panhandle and into Western Oklahoma, the cities of Wheeler and Canadian, Texas are among eleven Panhandle communities joining forces against Xcel Energy. The coalition, known as the Lonestar Eleven, says years of negligent utility maintenance by Xcel led to the February 2024 wildfire, now recognized as the largest in Texas history.…