How low will you go, AEP? While farmers opposing its unneeded, uneconomic Transource transmission line were attending the first day of the Pennsylvania PUC administrative hearings to decide whether or not to permit the project, AEP sent its out-of-state contractors in for a joyride across their land. And this is the destruction they came home to yesterday...
And Transource agents lied, flat out lied, to the landowner and told him they would be out on a different day. This is no coincidence. Transource did its trespassing and destruction with full knowledge that the landowner would be elsewhere, trying to protect his property from exactly this.
How in the world can anyone (especially regulators) believe all this company's promises about taking care of the land it disturbs and paying for damages when this is what happens when simple core drilling to examine tower sites is done?
This is the reason a utility should never be permitted to trespass on private property before its project has been approved by regulators and it has a permit in hand. The destruction and safety issues will continue and get much worse. And for what? So ratepayers in Washington, DC can save 20 cents on their electric bill? This project will never be approved. American Electric Power lies to landowners and wantonly destroys their property. This isn't a company you'd want as a tenant on your land in perpetuity.
And one more thing... here's the landowners showing up at the PA PUC hearing yesterday in a rented school bus that they paid for.
How in the world can anyone (especially regulators) believe all this company's promises about taking care of the land it disturbs and paying for damages when this is what happens when simple core drilling to examine tower sites is done?
This is the reason a utility should never be permitted to trespass on private property before its project has been approved by regulators and it has a permit in hand. The destruction and safety issues will continue and get much worse. And for what? So ratepayers in Washington, DC can save 20 cents on their electric bill? This project will never be approved. American Electric Power lies to landowners and wantonly destroys their property. This isn't a company you'd want as a tenant on your land in perpetuity.
And one more thing... here's the landowners showing up at the PA PUC hearing yesterday in a rented school bus that they paid for.
And here's Transource, its high-priced lawyers, and AEP corporate stuffed suits arriving at the same hearing like movie stars in a Mercedes limo. I'm surprised there wasn't a red carpet, although maybe the driver just hadn't unfurled it yet. Who paid for that? I did. You did. Struggling electric consumers in numerous states paid for these clowns to ride in style.
This travesty simply has to end. We can't afford it.
Shame on you, American Electric Power!
Shame on you, American Electric Power!
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