Provision 24 of the lease states:
24. SURFACE USE LIMITATIONS: LESSEE shall not drill or mine, erect buildings or conduct any mining operations within three hundred (300) feet of the improvements without reasonably compensating the owner of said improvements.
The hike/bike trails on both the GLO and Franklin Mountains State Park properties are improvements. Sources tell me that such improvements are valued at $5.00 per linear foot. Jobe deliberately bulldozed those trails on the GLO property and within 300 feet of the State Park. In doing so, he may have encroached on the state park itself.
Pay attention: This could be a breach of contract.
By the way, Jerry Patterson has been a favorite candidate of Stanley Jobe. On July 19, 2005 (2 months after the lease was signed) Patterson received two contributions from Jobe, the individual: $35,000 and $1,340. In 2006, Patterson got another hefty amount of $20,000. Jobe PAC money also went to Patterson. On December 9, 2008, Jobe gave Jerry another $10,000.
Interesting that the price of selling our children's mountain heritage is so damned cheap. Isn't Mr. Patterson up for reelection in 2010?
ReplyDeleteWell the City can't use their attorney-against-Asarco (Erich Birch) from Austin to look into this --- he also represented Jobe ...For that matter, one of the attorneys FOR Asarco was also working for Jobe at the 2005 Asarco El Paso Air hearing...Interesting, since the quarries would have been covered by 18 inches of Asarco-contaminated dirt - - - an environmental liability...
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