Arkansas News reports that Arkansas Rep. Steve Womack's APPROVAL Act bill passed out of the House Committee on Natural Resources today and is headed to the full House of Representatives.
Clean Line is "disappointed," reports Arkansas News.
Clean Line is "disappointed," reports Arkansas News.
Clean Line's "disappointment" manifested itself in a whiny litany of all the doom and destruction that is going to befall, not only the State of Arkansas, but the entire country, just before it takes over the world and ends existence as we know it.
“If a bill like this were to become law, it would kill jobs by creating significant barriers to the many businesses in Arkansas, and other states, that build American infrastructure, as well as raise electric power costs. Denying American consumers access to the lowest-cost clean energy resources is never good policy,” the company said.
Puh-leeeze. Killing jobs? How can it kill jobs Clean Line has yet to create? Significant barriers to Arkansas businesses? What about all the farm and other small businesses that your eminent domain right-of-way takings will demolish? That's some significant job-killing barriers right there! And what about all those current jobs creating energy in Arkansas that will be KILLED if the state imports electricity from another state? Are we going to pit workers at "American" electric generation facilities against workers building "American" infrastructure? Who's got more American flags behind their podium anyhow?
There's absolutely no truth to your claim that a failure to build a "Clean" line will raise electric power costs. That's the biggest bunch of poppycock ever! How much more will I pay if Plains & Eastern fails? How about if Plains & Eastern and Grain Belt Express fail? What if Plains & Eastern, Grain Belt Express AND Rock Island Clean Line fail? What if Michael Skelly drowns in his own spit? How much more will I pay?
Clean Line wouldn't know what "good policy" was if it bit them on the rear end. The only thing Clean Line knows is disappointment.
Clean Line also claims:
There's absolutely no truth to your claim that a failure to build a "Clean" line will raise electric power costs. That's the biggest bunch of poppycock ever! How much more will I pay if Plains & Eastern fails? How about if Plains & Eastern and Grain Belt Express fail? What if Plains & Eastern, Grain Belt Express AND Rock Island Clean Line fail? What if Michael Skelly drowns in his own spit? How much more will I pay?
Clean Line wouldn't know what "good policy" was if it bit them on the rear end. The only thing Clean Line knows is disappointment.
Clean Line also claims:
“The project has received supportive comments from thousands of Americans, including more than 3,000 Arkansans. Over 200 organizations and associations … have embraced the Plains & Eastern Clean Line because it will create jobs, provide low-cost energy, and result in cleaner air,” the company said.
Oh, right. We remember. The infamously desperate Change dot org petition. But guess what? I'll see your three thousand NIMBY "supporters" duped into signing something they didn't understand that puts energy infrastructure into someone else's backyard, and raise you more than 10,000 angry landowners who have no intention of signing voluntary right-of-way agreements for a "Clean" line. As well, we all know that your "organizations and associations" are bought and paid for, or mistakenly believe there's a pile of gold for themselves to be had by tossing their neighbors under the bus.
But, you know what? Somehow Arkansas News simply forgot to ask for any opposing views.
Maybe they simply ran out of time. It can't be that Arkansas News believes that the Sierra Club speaks for the public, can it? The only thing more revolting than Clean Line's comment is Glen Hooks' blathering. "Fundamental fairness," Glen? Really? What's fair about working your whole life to achieve the American dream of owning and enjoying property, only to have the rug yanked out from under you when a for-profit enterprise decides they want to use your property for their energy infrastructure project? An energy infrastructure project for which there is no reliability, economic, or public policy need? One premised on simple market speculation? That is fundamentally unfair, Glen. Nobody really cares if anyone is "fair" to a for-profit corporation. Corporations aren't people. Who cares how much investor money Skelly and his buddies have wasted trying to make their business model work? Should ordinary folks just scratching by really care that super rich, silver spoon boys like Michael Zilkha and the Ziff brothers might lose a tiny part of their vast fortunes because it's not "fair" to deprive them of the right to condemn and take property in the name of the Federal government without state approval?
It's not "blatantly unfair" to the economy of the State of Arkansas to make a Texas for-profit owned by a handful of guys richer than Croesus have to negotiate for land rights in an open market without the threat of eminent domain. That is blatantly unfair to the good people of Arkansas, your friends and neighbors. Get your head out of some environmental dream world and take a look around, Glen.
Soooooo..... thanks to Rep. Womack for doing something good for the people of Arkansas. The people that elect him. The folks he serves.
End:Public Tantrum. But mine was much more entertaining, I'm sure.
But, you know what? Somehow Arkansas News simply forgot to ask for any opposing views.
Maybe they simply ran out of time. It can't be that Arkansas News believes that the Sierra Club speaks for the public, can it? The only thing more revolting than Clean Line's comment is Glen Hooks' blathering. "Fundamental fairness," Glen? Really? What's fair about working your whole life to achieve the American dream of owning and enjoying property, only to have the rug yanked out from under you when a for-profit enterprise decides they want to use your property for their energy infrastructure project? An energy infrastructure project for which there is no reliability, economic, or public policy need? One premised on simple market speculation? That is fundamentally unfair, Glen. Nobody really cares if anyone is "fair" to a for-profit corporation. Corporations aren't people. Who cares how much investor money Skelly and his buddies have wasted trying to make their business model work? Should ordinary folks just scratching by really care that super rich, silver spoon boys like Michael Zilkha and the Ziff brothers might lose a tiny part of their vast fortunes because it's not "fair" to deprive them of the right to condemn and take property in the name of the Federal government without state approval?
It's not "blatantly unfair" to the economy of the State of Arkansas to make a Texas for-profit owned by a handful of guys richer than Croesus have to negotiate for land rights in an open market without the threat of eminent domain. That is blatantly unfair to the good people of Arkansas, your friends and neighbors. Get your head out of some environmental dream world and take a look around, Glen.
Soooooo..... thanks to Rep. Womack for doing something good for the people of Arkansas. The people that elect him. The folks he serves.
End:Public Tantrum. But mine was much more entertaining, I'm sure.
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