Who is High Roller Group?

High Roller Group is a bad community partner. The firm was implicated in a bribery scheme, in which TX Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian, who had been seeking reelection in 2022, received a donation for $100,000 from High Roller Group three days after he approved the holding company’s application to build an oil waste disposal site. High Roller Group ultimately donated $250,000 in campaign contributions to Christian and three other commissioners who ruled on the project.[1]

[1] See: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/Oilfield-waste-company-rewards-Christian-for-16849001.php and https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/03/gop-candidates-accepted-millions-from-oil-and-gas-ahead-of-texas-primary/

What are they proposing?

High Roller Group wants to build a new 600+ acre cement plant in Dorchester right next to First Baptist Church. The plant has widespread opposition from community members and city and county officials. So much opposition that local leaders have engaged legal counsel in their fight to see this plant stopped.

What’s wrong with this proposed cement plant?

Cement plants create enormous levels of air, light, and noise pollution and endanger our water supply and local roads.

• This facility will emit: carbon monoxide, hazardous air pollutants, sulfuric acid, nitrogen oxides, organic compounds, particulate matter including particulate matter with diameters of 10 microns or less and 2.5 microns or less, lead, and sulfur dioxide.

• The facility will dramatically increase large truck traffic on local roads, especially near FBC Dorchester, which is home to a school.

• The facility is near the Hagerman Wildlife Refuge, but no impact studies have been done to measure the impact to migratory birds and other protected species.

• The facility plans to run 24/7 in violation of public nuisance laws and will contribute to massive increases in noise and light pollution.

• Limestone mining can contaminate ground and surface water.

• Prevailing wind patterns will drive plant pollution directly over the high school in Sherman and the city’s new industrial park.

How do I get involved?

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