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Wildcatting for Wind - Part Four of Four

Here's Part Four of Wildcatting for Wind, sponsored by Texana Talk and Higginbotham Brothers.

Watch ...

Nine minutes

in Quicktime... 

(two minutes-ish to start streaming)

in Windows Media Player...

(30 seconds-ish to start streaming)

Excerpt taken from:

“Wildcatting for Wind: The Texas Experience from Turbine to Market”
Produced by The University of Texas School of Law
Full DVD can be purchased at www.utcle.org

next years’ conference: 

2010 Wind Energy Institute
February 2-4, 2010
Austin Convention Center

 

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Wildcatting for Wind - Part Three of Four

Here's Part Three of Wildcatting for Wind, sponsored by Texana Talk and Higginbotham Brothers.

Watch ...

Nine minutes

in Quicktime... 

(two minutes-ish to start streaming)

in Windows Media Player...

(30 seconds-ish to start streaming)

Excerpt taken from:

“Wildcatting for Wind: The Texas Experience from Turbine to Market”
Produced by The University of Texas School of Law
Full DVD can be purchased at www.utcle.org

next years’ conference: 

2010 Wind Energy Institute
February 2-4, 2010
Austin Convention Center

 

Technorati Tags: Texana Review,Ed Blackburn,Texas,alternative energy,wind energy,wind power

Wildcatting for Wind - Part Two of Four

Here's Part Two of Wildcatting for Wind, sponsored by Texana Talk and Higginbotham Brothers.

Watch ...

Seven minutes, thirty-five seconds

in Quicktime...

(two minutes-ish to start streaming)

in Windows Media Player...

(30 seconds-ish to start streaming)

 

Excerpt taken from:

“Wildcatting for Wind: The Texas Experience from Turbine to Market”
Produced by The University of Texas School of Law
Full DVD can be purchased at www.utcle.org

 

next years’ conference: 

2010 Wind Energy Institute
February 2-4, 2010
Austin Convention Center

 

Technorati Tags: Texana Review,Ed Blackburn,Texas,alternative energy,Wind energy,wind power

 

Wildcatting for Wind - Part One of Four

In the latter part of January 2009, folks from as far away as Spain and Germany gathered in Austin, Texas to talk about wind energy ... that's wind energy in Texas.

This annual gathering actually began about five years ago, in Sweetwater, Texas; a location of one of the largest wind farms in the world.

About three years ago, Texas surpassed California as the No. 1 producer of wind energy in the United States.

I could go on with all the one-upsmanship typical of Texas vernacular but there's no reason to.

In this day and time it's important to know about wind energy, especially if you're a Texas landowner.

Although I don't like lawyers all that much, the University of Texas School of Law produced a video titled "Wildcatting for Wind," which they showcased at the gathering.  It's pretty good.

They gave me permission to show it off here at The Texana Review.

It's interesting, and informative.

I'm presenting it here for you in four parts. 

Here's Part One - sponsored by The Texana Review and Higginbotham Brothers.

Watch...

Six minutes, ten seconds

in QuickTime...

In Windows Media Player...

 

Excerpt taken from:

“Wildcatting for Wind: The Texas Experience from Turbine to Market”
Produced by The University of Texas School of Law
Full DVD can be purchased at www.utcle.org

 

next years’ conference: 

2010 Wind Energy Institute
February 2-4, 2010
Austin Convention Center

 

Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Jim Blackburn

Jim Blackburn is an environmental lawyer who lives in the Houston area.

Deep down, he has a dedication and commitment to the environment that started at an early age.

Educationally, he started out in History, taking a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas in that subject.

He then followed up with a law degree from the same institution and then a Masters of Science in Environmental Science from Rice University, where he is now a professor and lecturer in Environmental Law.

He’s the recipient of a goodly number of awards and recognition for his work as an environmental advocate, and when I asked him to participate in this series, he said:

"I’m just an environmental lawyer!"

I replied, "Yes, that’s true but your opinion matters to my listeners on this subject."

Listen...

17 minutes

Music by Torchmatic under Creative Commons License Podshow Podsafe Music Network

 

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T. Boone Pickens is back ...and he has a Plan

T. Boone Pickens is a smart entrepreneur.

Beyond that, he's one smart cookie, and he doesn't shy away from controversy

He says he has an energy plan for America; a plan with heavy emphasis on wind energy.

And he's started a very aggressive media campaign.  What he has to say makes a lot of sense.

Watch what he has to say in this segment...

4:49 minutes

Watch...

(depending on your computer equipment and Internet connection, this video may load more or less rapidly, but it will load)

 

For more video podcast entries (they're three prior ones), visit PickensPlan, Boone's Video Blog

 

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Allen Price

(Originally produced for Texas Rural Land News & Review which merged with The Texana Review in March 2008)

Allen Price is an attorney-at-law and senior partner with the Smith, Rose, Finley, Harp & Price law firm in San Angelo. 

Mr. Price grew up in Sterling County and, after graduating from Abilene Christian University, took a law degree from Texas Tech.

He started out specializing in Estate Planning and Probate law but has recently become heavily involved in wind energy issues.

He's a rural landowner himself and has been a steady counsel for other landowners in negotiating leases with wind energy developers.

 

Listen...

18:10 minutes

Music by Torchmatic under Creative Commons License Podshow Podsafe Music Network

 

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Jack Hunt

(Originally produced for Texas Rural Land News & Review which merged with The Texana Review in March 2008)

Jack Hunt has been president and CEO of the King Ranch since 1995 and has steadily worked to diversify the assets of the famous ranch. 

He also has strong views on wind energy especially as it impacts the environment along the Texas coast.

So I posed the same question to Mr. Hunt that I posed to the other panelists for this series

“Does the presence of wind turbines on any given farm or ranch property enhance or detract from that property’s market value?”

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19:00 minutes

Music by Jeff Bosset under Creative Commons License Podshow Podsafe Music Network

 

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Kathleen McKenzie Owen

(Originally produced for Texas Rural Land News & Review which merged with The Texana Review in March 2008)

Kathleen McKenzie Owen has been counseling rural land buyers and sellers since the mid-1980s and has enjoyed quite a bit of success in the process.  She’s one of those who returns what she has been provided by her business efforts back to her business.

She says she's retired, but she still instructs for the Realtors Land Institute. And most recently, she has taken on the job of Chairperson of the Resorts and Second Homes Committee for the National Association of Realtors.

Ms. Owen holds the ALC designation from the Realtor’s Land Institute and with her many years of experience in rural land brokerage in Texas, she offers some interesting insights into wind energy development in the state.

Listen...

10:30 minutes

Music by the Dave Lambert Band under Creative Commons License Podshow Podsafe Music Network

 

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Karl Armstead

(Originally produced for Texas Rural Land News & Review which merged with The Texana Review in March 2008)

Karl Armstead grew up in Arizona but after a stint in Agricultural Operations at the First National Bank of Midland, he began brokering and appraising rural property in west Texas in 1989. 

From the Fort Stockton area, he’s in the thick of wind energy development in west Texas. He holds the ARA designation awarded by American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.

Listen...

13:00 minutes

Music by Drew Vics under Creative Commons License Podshow Podsafe Music Network

Contact Karl Armstead HERE

 

 

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