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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with Steven Thompson

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

Steven E. Thompson is an attorney-at-law and founder of Steven E. Thompson & Associates, P.C.  He's been an active advocate for landowners opposing wind energy development in certain areas of Texas.

Mr. Thompson is one of the few attorneys in Texas, if not the nation, who have been involved in litigation in regard to wind energy and wind energy rights. His insights are interesting and thoughtful.

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14:30 minutes

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: an interview with George Clift

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

 

George Clift is a principal in Clift, Scott & Associates in Amarillo. He and his associates sell, appraise and auction property in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. 

Mr. Clift is an Accredited Land Consultant through the Realtors Land Institute and is the immediate past president of the Texas Realtors Land Institute. His take on what’s happening in the Panhandle area with wind energy is informative.

 

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10:45 minutes

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: An interview with Tom Lee

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

Tom Lee is a principal in Lee, Lee & Puckitt Associates in San Angelo.  He and his firm specialize in farm and ranch sales and appraisal. 

Mr. Lee travels extensively throughout central west Texas and has ample opportunity to chat with landowners about any number of rural land issues. As a result, he has a good finger on the pulse of how wind energy is and will affect the land.

He's also a ranch manager and landowner and is a frequent contributor to Texas Rural Land News & Review.

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16:00 minutes

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: An Interview with Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson

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

Jerry Patterson is the Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, the oldest state agency in Texas. He is an avid proponent of alternative energy sources for Texas which, of course, includes wind energy.

A Texas A & M graduate, Commissioner Patterson served in the United States Marine Corps in Vietnam and afterwards in the Marine Corps Reserve.

He also served as a state senator for District 11 before being elected Land Commissioner.

His and his agency’s job is to manage over 20.4 million acres of state land and Commissioner Patterson is not shy about advocating the development of wind energy on some of that land.

I thought it important to hear from Commissioner Patterson about wind energy’s impact on land value.

 

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15:00 minutes

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: An interview with Terry Argotsinger

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

Terry Argotsinger is from Iowa but during the summer of 2007, Mr. Argotsinger talked to a group of Gillespie County landowners and others interested in wind energy about his experiences with wind energy and land in his home state.

Mr. Argotsinger is a farm manager, rural land broker and appraiser.

He teaches a three-hour seminar on the wind energy business using actual sales comparables to demonstrate the impact of wind energy generation on land ownership.

He holds both the AFM and ARA designations from the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.

Mr. Argotsinger is associated with Stalcup Ag Service in Storm Lake, Iowa.

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15:28 minutes

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: An Interview with Gene Rhodes

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

Gene Rhodes grew up in Raymondville, Texas.

After his schooling, he joined the renowned Henry S. Miller Company in Dallas as a real estate appraiser and eventually headed up the appraisal department for the company.

Mr. Rhodes is now the principal in Gene Rhodes & Associates. His many years of appraisal practice has provided such a broad range of experience that his advice is highly sought after by even the most seasoned appraisers and real estate counselors. 

He proudly holds an MAI designation.

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15:00 minutes

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Wind Energy's Impact on Land Value: An interview with Rod Wetsel

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

Rod Wetsel is a wind lawyer. He could be considered to be one of the pre-eminent wind lawyers in Texas, if not the United States.

Born in Sweetwater, Texas as a third generation Texan to a ranching family, Mr. Wetsel schooled in Sweetwater before attending the University of Texas where he took a Bachelor of Arts degree in history before going on to take a law degree from UT’s Law School.

He returned to Sweetwater to practice trial law but soon found himself representing landowners in oil and gas matters.

In 1999, wind energy quietly peeked over the horizon and Mr. Wetsel was retained to investigate the ins and outs of wind development for a long-time ranching friend near Sweetwater.

Today the Sweetwater area is home to two of the world’s largest wind farms.

I thought if anyone could offer an opinion on wind energy’s impact on land value, it was Rod Wetsel.

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11:20 minutes

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Coming soon: Wind Energy's Impact On Land Value, and a bit more

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

Eighteen short interviews from land professionals, attorneys, the Texas Land Commissioner and several landowners on wind energy and it's impact on land value and the State of Texas.  VERY informative.

Stay tuned!  Or better yet, click on the icon in your web browser and have these podcasts delivered automatically to your computer to listen to whenever you have the time.

Here's the lineup.

Click here to listen to some comments from the interviews:

Terry Argotsinger rural land manager,broker, appraiser	Karl Armstead rural land broker & appraiser	Keith Barlow rural land appraiser
Jim Blackburn environmental attorney-at-law	George Clift rural land manager,broker, appraiser	Chip Cole rural land broker
Judon Fambrough attorney-at-law, senior lecturer - Texas Real Estate Center	Jack Hunt President & CEO - King Ranch	John Kuker rural land broker
Tom Lee rural land manager,broker, appraiser	Kathleen McKenzie Owen rural land broker, RLI lecturer	Jerry Patterson Commissioner, Texas General Land Office
Allen Price attorney-at-law	Gene Rhodes rural land appraiser	Jack Schoppa rural land appraiser
Steven E. Thompson attorney-at-law	Rod Wetsel attorney-at-law	Greg Wortham Director, West Texas Wind Energy Consortium; Mayor - Sweetwater, Texas

 

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