Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. --
Margaret Mead
US social anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
It appears that EUCI has knuckled under from citizen pressure and kicked Clean Line's executives off the speakers line up for its 8th Annual Public Participation for Transmission Siting Conference scheduled for January 23-24, 2014 in Houston. Clean Line is also no longer sponsoring the conference.
The original agenda put together by Clean Line included offensive sessions entitled "Going BANANAS with NIMBYs - Best Practices in Dealing with Community Based Opposition Groups" and "Marketing to Mayberry: Communicating with Rural America."
The new agenda has been "cleansed" of Clean Line influence and the offensive sessions have been renamed "Best Practices in dealing with community based opposition groups" and "Communicating with rural America," dispensing with the offensive and cutsey-poo insults of transmission opposition groups.
But, does this make EUCI's continuing education conference any more useful? Probably not. It still more closely resembles a transmission industry echo chamber, where industry blowhards make crap up and feed it to the attendees as a successful example to follow. The truth is that "the public" continues to laugh at these idiots' attempts to "participate" with us to successfully site their projects. It's not about "participating" with the public at all... it's about sharing ideas for ways to lie and cheat the public in order to win project approval.
The only way to successfully "participate" with the public is to actually dirty your hands consorting with them, and EUCI isn't about to let THAT happen. Offhand, I can't think of a more useless conference for the industry. For the opposition, however, it's a fun opportunity, as protestors at a Missouri EUCI conference found out a couple months ago. See you there!
The original agenda put together by Clean Line included offensive sessions entitled "Going BANANAS with NIMBYs - Best Practices in Dealing with Community Based Opposition Groups" and "Marketing to Mayberry: Communicating with Rural America."
The new agenda has been "cleansed" of Clean Line influence and the offensive sessions have been renamed "Best Practices in dealing with community based opposition groups" and "Communicating with rural America," dispensing with the offensive and cutsey-poo insults of transmission opposition groups.
But, does this make EUCI's continuing education conference any more useful? Probably not. It still more closely resembles a transmission industry echo chamber, where industry blowhards make crap up and feed it to the attendees as a successful example to follow. The truth is that "the public" continues to laugh at these idiots' attempts to "participate" with us to successfully site their projects. It's not about "participating" with the public at all... it's about sharing ideas for ways to lie and cheat the public in order to win project approval.
The only way to successfully "participate" with the public is to actually dirty your hands consorting with them, and EUCI isn't about to let THAT happen. Offhand, I can't think of a more useless conference for the industry. For the opposition, however, it's a fun opportunity, as protestors at a Missouri EUCI conference found out a couple months ago. See you there!
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