Landowners take stand against Exelon
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Ranch owners won’t let Exelon survey their property.
The Paradise Ranch Landowners Association voted unanimously not to enter into an agreement with Exelon, a nuclear energy company, during a special meeting on April 27, president John Figer said Tuesday.
Exelon hoped to conduct a 90-day feasibility study on Paradise Ranch to see if a heavy haul road from the barge canal to the proposed nuclear plant site in McFaddin would be viable. If the proposed route was feasible, Exelon would want to purchase an easement to use the 200-foot-wide road.
“We felt like if we allowed them to do a feasibility study we would be showing we were in support of the project as a whole,” Figer said. “The majority is not in favor.”
In the association’s news release, landowners said they were “adamantly against the construction and operation of a nuclear generating plant next to the Paradise Ranch.”
Landowners felt that a heavy haul road would destroy wetlands and wildlife, which are important to residents who hunt, Figer said.
Residents feel that the construction of the proposed nuclear plant next to Paradise Ranch would hurt property values and disrupt the ranch way of life, Figer said. Landowners would prefer to be bought out entirely rather than be affected by a nearby plant or heavy haul road.
“This is our home,” Figer said. “This is where we planned on retiring.”
The refusal for the Paradise Ranch landowners to enter the proposed agreement won’t stop a project of this size from coming to fruition, said Craig Nesbit, vice president of communications for Exelon.
“We’ll figure something out,” Nesbit said.
Tara Bozick is a reporter for the Advocate. Contact her at 361-580-6504 or tbozick@vicad.com, or comment on this story at www.VictoriaAdvocate.com.
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Regarding STNP in Bay City, perhaps you should actually talk to the citizens of that town and discover the ways in which they mismanaged the original growth from STNP workers, and how they lost housing to neighboring places like Lake Jackson. Lessons have been learned, and they are very, very excited about the two new reactors planned for that site.
May 15, 2008 at 6:46 a.m.LetÂ’s see, the people who are giving the power company a hard time about building this new power plant are complaining about the price of fuel and our dependence on foreign oil??????
May 15, 2008 at 1:12 a.m.Also, have you been to Bay City lately? What has the N. P. brought to town? Is it a booming town? Unfortunately, NO.
May 15, 2008 at 12:21 a.m.Thank you Landowners for your stand! Mr. K.S. has not done his homework! Much of what he says is incorrect.
May 15, 2008 at 12:18 a.m.Sir, I do not think you have all the facts. The big boys think they can just run over us small time fellows and we have decided that they will treat us fairly. I do not know where you got your information about water rights, etc, but it is not correct as far as I know and I think I know. We have lots of issues with the nuke and they need to address them to insure our continuing hunting opportunities as that is what this ranch is all about. Wow! Get the information first.
May 8, 2008 at 3:15 p.m.Or, how the community plans on working with Excelon. It goes both ways, uh?
May 8, 2008 at 10:11 a.m.Wow, Mr. Nesbit. Already setting the tone for how Exelon is going to interact with the community neighboring the plant, are we?
May 8, 2008 at 9:53 a.m.