Smells Like Propaganda

Propaganda rag Bloomberg article about four long-stalled transmission projects, including Grain Belt Express, that the reporters claim are "inching ahead."  Ahead of what?  These projects have been bumping around for more than a decade without success.  Only one is actually being built, and that's the one buried on existing rights of way and underwater.  Coincidence?  I think not.

But that's not the stinkiest part.  The propaganda oozing from this article claims:

The fact these long-in-the-works projects are reaching similar milestones appears to be coincidence; no single policy is moving them forward. They are, however, advancing at a time of increasing understanding by local communities and even traditional opponents — including some conservation groups — of the need to move clean energy from rural outposts and to build more durable electric systems after a series of weather and climatic events have felled grids in recent years.

Who are these "communities" and "traditional opponents"?  Doesn't say, but it also "includes conservation groups" so perhaps we have our culprit right there.  Conservation groups are pretending they speak for landowners. Conservation groups like Sierra Club and all those other big green organizations that like to intervene in state siting and permitting proceedings to support the destruction of your community and property.  They speak for you about as much as former Missouri Governor Jay Nixon did when he negotiated "landowner protections" on your behalf without consulting you.  Now you've got posturing, sanctimonious swamp creatures claiming that you "understand" how you must sacrifice your home to the Gods of Climate Change that they worship.

Nobody affected by new above-ground transmission rights-of-way taken under threat of eminent domain "understands" this  idiocy.  That's a bold-faced LIE designed to make the hoi polloi believe that you don't mind being thrown under the wheels of the "clean energy" bus that they're driving so that they can all cheer about how they have saved the planet (that was never in any actual danger).  This is gas  lighting.  This is mainstream media propaganda.

These reporters also doesn't realize that what has "felled grids" in recent years is the retirement of baseload coal and gas electric generators and a failing attempt to replace them with intermittent industrial wind and solar generators.  It's not the weather.  It's the generation sources.  See how they did that?  "Not enough power?  Build more wind and solar and transmission lines!"  When their agenda causes a problem, they pretend you need to continue with their agenda to solve the problem that's being created.  They are doubling-down on the cause of the problem instead of finding a solution.  What is it going to take to stop this craziness?  Do we have to wait for these low-information fools to crash the grid?

Tell the reporters they are quite mistaken in their unsupported presumption.  We do care and we will continue to resist.