According to this article, Arkansas PSC Chairman Ted Thomas said that he'd rather have gonorrhea than the Plains and Eastern Clean Line. Hardee-harr-harr.
Thomas said the failed 700-mile HVDC Clean Line transmission project from Oklahoma to Arkansas, which the U.S. Department of Energy agreed to support, “had higher negatives than gonorrhea.”
According to the same article, U.S. Department of Energy transmission facilitator Michelle Manary also thought making funny jokes about Plains & Eastern at some boring transmission "summit" was smart.
“We have battle scars from that,” joked Michelle L. Manary, acting deputy assistant secretary for DOE’s Energy Resilience Division.
Hardee-harr-harr, Michelle. You're a bigger comedian than Ted.
Poor widdle Michelle has battle scars from fighting all those nasty landowners and their lawyers and elected representatives. I'm so sad for her.
Poor widdle Michelle has battle scars from fighting all those nasty landowners and their lawyers and elected representatives. I'm so sad for her.
News flash for Michelle! The other side also has battle scars after being treated like dirt under Michelle's big government boot. They also have drained bank accounts, lost sleep, no free time, postponed plans for their properties, and a long period of their life filled with uncertainty and frustration.
And it all happened because the federal government acted politically to put its thumb on the scale for Clean Line. In the end, it was all just a gigantic waste of time and money.
Once bitten, twice shy, Michelle? What's she going to do with her new authority to act politically to put a thumb on the scale for merchant transmission?
And it all happened because the federal government acted politically to put its thumb on the scale for Clean Line. In the end, it was all just a gigantic waste of time and money.
Once bitten, twice shy, Michelle? What's she going to do with her new authority to act politically to put a thumb on the scale for merchant transmission?
To avoid that problem in the future, Manary said DOE will focus not on transmission corridors but on specific projects.
“It’s much easier to study a specific project,” she said. “And I think it’s easier also for the states and utilities to comment on it and coordinate and facilitate with it because they know what we’re talking about — not just a broad swath of land.”
But wasn't Plains & Eastern a specific transmission project? One less popular than gonorrhea? One that scarred everyone? I guess Michelle's scars aren't so bad after all.
Hardee-harr-harr. You two are about as funny as stepping in dog poo.
Hardee-harr-harr. You two are about as funny as stepping in dog poo.
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