- I wanna get to our good friend, the Tomlin Hydropower Project.

I've got his application right here.

I'll pass it around in a minute.

He's gonna build a 30-acre lake right on the banks of the river that's 60-foot deep.

He's gon' pump water out of that into this.

This lake is gonna be 200 acres.

Then, going up the mountain, this lake is gonna be a hundred acres.

This is a massive amount of shale and soil that he's gonna dig out there.

Where's that gonna go?

He's not gon' take it back to Dallas with him.

Shale, rock dust is all gonna wash down over time into the river.

- [Attendee] Well, these guys, they're investment managers out of Dallas.

- This is a water rights play.

It's who controls water rights.

I mean, they consider water the next goal.

- You know, we've gotta get together and stop it.

So, without further ado, Dr.

Ken Roberts, our president, has something to say.

- What seems to be happening that I can't keep up with, and we've been trying at this for three years, is that we keep having people come along and propose things like this, and we get very short notices in the newspaper that we have to act on.

So, but what makes me nervous about this is just things aren't seeming to be done right, they're definitely not done on the up and up.

All of us are stakeholders, and how many of you were at the closed door meeting?

So, we apparently don't count.

This is going to kill a river.

And for a lot of us, this isn't about money.

It's to preserve a culture, a way of life, a heritage that you just can't replace if you move to a city.