CANADIAN — Salem Abraham may not have memorized every utility pole in the Texas Panhandle, but he knows precisely which ones shouldn’t be there.
He’s mapped them across more than 300 miles in this region of treeless grassland, plateaus and canyons.
These structures have been marked as defective or dangerous by inspectors contracted by their owners, which include utility and telephone companies and oil and gas operators. Ownership of the poles and power lines throughout this region varies depending on a company’s electricity needs. But Abraham believes that one company has a long history of leaving up degrading poles or running power lines through
