Property Rights advocates know no international borders. Property owners on both side of the border raise concerns about the Trans Pecos Pipeline. Here’s what people are saying:
- “It is not only illegal but profoundly discourteous. It’s just not done out here.” Val Beard a rancher in Brewster County.
- “You can’t drop $760 million in a 150-mile corridor without all the businesses doing well,” said Brad Newton, economic development director in Presidio, Texas.
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“I won’t lease my land for the pipeline. I’ll defend it.” Rancher Epidio Bonilla in Mexico.
Precondemnation access to ranch land is not popular on either side of the border. The Texas rancher forced a surveyor off her land and received an apology letter from the pipeline. The Mexican rancher did not receive an apology but was equally adamant about defending his land from the pipeline.