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Respect the Hill Country
Columns, Opinions
Staff Report news@haysfreepress.com, on
July 22, 2020
Respect the Hill Country

by Patrick Cox, Ph.D

The construction of the Permian Highway Pipeline (PHP) by the Kinder Morgan Corporation is a perilous and unprecedented threat to the Texas Hill Country. From the beginning of this project, Kinder Morgan demonstrated a thorough lack of concern and understanding of the ecological sensitivities, the hydrological uniqueness, and the sensitive nature of our region. And they have also underestimated the people who live here and care so deeply for this area.

The Trinity Edwards Spri...

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