Judge Orders Cleanup of West Texas Wind Turbine Blade Dump

[Elderberry]

Texas Scorecard  by Brandon Waltens July 7, 2026

Temporary injunction bars new shipments and requires company to begin removing thousands of discarded turbine blades from Sweetwater sites.

Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a temporary injunction requiring a company accused of illegally stockpiling thousands of wind turbine blades in West Texas to stop accepting additional shipments and begin cleaning up the sites.

The temporary injunction, signed Tuesday by a Travis County district judge, applies to Global Fiberglass Solutions of Texas LLC, its affiliated companies, and company official Donald Lilly. It prohibits the defendants from accepting or disposing of additional industrial or municipal solid waste at two Sweetwater facilities while requiring them to begin removing the existing stockpiles.

Paxton sued the company in February, alleging it had illegally accumulated more than 3,000 discarded wind turbine blades, nacelles, and other materials at two facilities in Sweetwater in violation of Texas solid waste laws.

“This is a victory for protecting the land, health, and safety of the people of Texas,” said Paxton.



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[IsailedawayfromFR]

But where will it now be dumped?  In the ocean?

Best to send it all back to China where it belongs.

[Cyber Liberty]

Remove them to where?  I don't know who to be mad at here, the Green nuts or an idiot Judge?

[catfish1957]

We'll see these awful rustbuckets littering our landscapes for the rest of our lives.

Every owner and company operator will walk away from these and file Chapter 7/11.  Those enviro-scammers failed to require closure/post closure requirements that normal industry incurs.

[Bigun]

We'll see these awful rustbuckets littering our landscapes for the rest of our lives.

Every owner and company operator will walk away from these and file Chapter 7/11.  Those enviro-scammers failed to require closure/post closure requirements that normal industry incurs.

The foundations they sit on are likely permanent and no grass will grow there ever again. How many acres have been removed from any useful purpose?