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Dustin Burrows: “Some of those [fires] were actually on the main power lines…”

Featuring: Dustin Burrows, Republican | Texas House of Representatives, District 83

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Representative Dustin Burrows interviewed on Texas Talks

Published | Video Starts at 06:55

So when we were talking about, you know, kind of the ignition points, there had been fire investigations this time by the Texas Forestry Service that determined the cause related primarily to power lines. Some of those [fires] were actually on the main power lines, and some of those were where they had taken it off from the meter over to the well site for stripper wells. which are, you know, usually owned by smaller companies, not the big oil and gas industry. And they had some real issues with that. (06:55–07:04)

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Asserts that some fires were caused by power lines connected to well sites for stripper wells.

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