My week just wouldn't be complete without a dose of Clean Line + Lobbyists + Lies. How about yours?
Fox News has published a lobbyist's opinion filled with the most outrageous lies. And then tried to make "news" out of it. So, what else is new?
Back in January, "infrastructure company" CG/LA Infrastructure pushed a list of 50 infrastructure projects that was spun to pretend it came from the White House. Of course, that wasn't exactly true. The list of projects came from CG/LA Infrastructure, who said they prepared it for Trump. Now CG/LA's "President and CEO", Norman Anderson, says he's lobbying the administration to push his list of projects forward through Executive Order, instead of going through Congress. He says he's "definitely lobbying." Okay, so he's a lobbyist for the projects on his list. Lobbyist.
What projects are on his list? One of them is the Plains & Eastern Clean Line. Clean Line.
What does Anderson say about the Plains & Eastern Clean Line?
Fox News has published a lobbyist's opinion filled with the most outrageous lies. And then tried to make "news" out of it. So, what else is new?
Back in January, "infrastructure company" CG/LA Infrastructure pushed a list of 50 infrastructure projects that was spun to pretend it came from the White House. Of course, that wasn't exactly true. The list of projects came from CG/LA Infrastructure, who said they prepared it for Trump. Now CG/LA's "President and CEO", Norman Anderson, says he's lobbying the administration to push his list of projects forward through Executive Order, instead of going through Congress. He says he's "definitely lobbying." Okay, so he's a lobbyist for the projects on his list. Lobbyist.
What projects are on his list? One of them is the Plains & Eastern Clean Line. Clean Line.
What does Anderson say about the Plains & Eastern Clean Line?
The Plains & Eastern Clean Line – the first new transmission line sited in this country in 45 years – would generate more than $9 billion in new investment.
P&E is NOT "the first new transmission line sited in the country in 45 years." In fact, hundreds of transmission projects planned and ordered by federally regulated regional transmission organizations and independent system operators (PJM, ISO-NE, NY-ISO, SPP, MISO, CAISO, ERCOT) are underway all across the country. Anderson's bold-faced lie isn't even that hard to disprove. Here's a graphic by the US Energy Information Administration showing over a hundred billion dollars of investment in transmission projects built since 1997 (only 20 years ago)! Go ahead, google search for "transmission investment" to find hundreds of examples that disprove this lie. LIE.
And then there's the $9B figure attached to Clean Line's $2.5B project. Where did that come from?
I think Clean Line is pretty disgusting lately trying to remake itself to appeal to a new administration. Is there no boot too dirty to lick when there's money to be made?
Especially because all this posturing and lying doesn't actually accomplish anything for Clean Line. Anderson thinks if Trump signs an Executive Order advancing the infrastructure projects on the list that they "will be approved in 4 months." "Approval" isn't Clean Line's problem. Clean Line already thinks its project is "approved" by the U.S. Department of Energy. What's holding up Clean Line's project right now is LACK OF CUSTOMERS. That's right, Plains and Eastern has NO CUSTOMERS. An Executive Order can't force utilities to pay for Clean Line's project. Anderson is barking up the wrong tree, and all the lies in the world cannot create a revenue stream for a project that's not needed.
Fake news.
And then there's the $9B figure attached to Clean Line's $2.5B project. Where did that come from?
I think Clean Line is pretty disgusting lately trying to remake itself to appeal to a new administration. Is there no boot too dirty to lick when there's money to be made?
Especially because all this posturing and lying doesn't actually accomplish anything for Clean Line. Anderson thinks if Trump signs an Executive Order advancing the infrastructure projects on the list that they "will be approved in 4 months." "Approval" isn't Clean Line's problem. Clean Line already thinks its project is "approved" by the U.S. Department of Energy. What's holding up Clean Line's project right now is LACK OF CUSTOMERS. That's right, Plains and Eastern has NO CUSTOMERS. An Executive Order can't force utilities to pay for Clean Line's project. Anderson is barking up the wrong tree, and all the lies in the world cannot create a revenue stream for a project that's not needed.
Fake news.
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