No, really! Yes, my jaw dropped, too. How DARE they?
Here's the entire quote in a new article from a publication named The Center Square.
Here's the entire quote in a new article from a publication named The Center Square.
Invenergy spokeswoman Beth Conley said the bill was expected and is no different than previous efforts to use property right concerns as a fake reason to derail the delivery of “clean energy” overwhelmingly supported in Missouri and across the country.
So Beth thinks opposition to GBE is just an effort to derail delivery of clean electricity? Any landowner concern about eminent domain is merely "fake" window dressing?
She's really, really, really gone and done it now.
And she should know better.
She was bought up from Clean Line along with the GBE project. She's been working on this project as long as you have. Beth thinks landowner concern about property rights has been nothing but an act for 10 years?
You know, 10 years is a long, long time for busy farmers to carry on a "fake" grassroots movement to prevent "clean energy." Like farmers have nothing better to do than spend a decade of their lives, and a big chunk of their savings, just to make sure "clean energy" isn't delivered to Missouri and other states.
Landowners across Missouri have shown up in Jefferson City to support property rights legislation again and again. I've honestly lost track of how many years legislation has been proposed. Does Beth think it's easy for these folks to take a day out of their work schedule to travel to the capitol? Unlike Beth, these people never take a day off. Animals still must be fed and cared for. Crops still need attention. There are a million different things farmers need to accomplish every day, and there is no time clock to punch out for a day to visit Jefferson City just to fight against "clean energy."
What is wrong with you for suggesting such a thing, Beth?
Missouri landowners are about the most genuine people I know. They don't have time or money to play fake political games. They are fighting to protect their property rights because they are deeply concerned. They are concerned that their generational farms are being slowly gobbled up by development for benefit of others far, far away. They are concerned that construction of a new transmission line across their farm is going to hinder their productivity and lower their yield. They recognize that GBE isn't a necessary power line needed to provide electric service to their neighbors who don't have it. Instead, it's a private, for-profit roadway through their farms that's going to make Invenergy a bundle of money. GBE won't benefit these landowners in the least, and for their trouble Invenergy wants to pay them a "market value" pittance. Worse yet, if the landowner resists Invenergy's offer, Invenergy wants to use the solemn power of the government to condemn and take the land of uncooperative landowners. Nothing at all "fake" about being concerned about that.
Maybe Beth should take a look in the mirror? After all, isn't there an active complaint at the Missouri PSC regarding Invenergy's fake claims about what project it's trying to build? Beth herself claimed in a podcast that Invenergy was building transmission for gen tie and started that ball rolling. Invenergy has been all over the media (and at the Kansas Governor's place) touting its changed plans. But yet, Invenergy has been telling the MO PSC that its project hasn't changed a bit and that it's still entitled to use the threat of eminent domain to coerce landowners to sign agreements.
Seems to me that Invenergy is the fake one. Pretending to build one thing while planning another. Pretending it's about to condemn property in order to get landowners to sign early and cheaply. Pretending that it's bringing "benefit" to Missouri.
Pretending that GBE could prevent a Texas-style power outage in Missouri. Now that's really FAKE! The project Invenergy says its building in Missouri will sell 100% of its capacity through negotiated contracts with load serving entities in other states (less a tiny fraction for Missouri municipalities looking for a free lunch at the expense of landowners miles away). Another option for Invenergy is to sign with a generator who wants to deliver to customers at the other end of the line. The point is that ALL GBE's transmission capacity will be owned by other entities. These entities control what flows over GBE and where it goes. Beth and Invenergy cannot commandeer GBE back from the customers who own its capacity in order to ship energy to other customers elsewhere. So, let's say another big freeze happens across the Midwest and Missouri's generators freeze up and go offline (this would never happen because Missouri generators are protected from winter weather). If that happens, Missouri would need a big shot of power to keep the lights on. Except Missouri's neighbors are probably also having issues and have no power to spare. Even if they did, unless they owned some of GBE's capacity to use for this purpose (or could purchase or rent it through someone who did), GBE is about as useless as a bucket underneath a bull. GBE is not a public access transmission project that anyone can use. It's a private transmission project for the exclusive use of private customers who pay the most to use it.
Grain Belt Express should not have the power of eminent domain.
Beth needs to get herself back to the land of the fake in Chicago and quit insulting rural Missourians. Does she really think that's going to help the situation? Make sure your legislator knows exactly what Invenergy thinks of Missourians.
The race is on... who is going to stop Invenergy's fake condemnation of private property in Missouri first? The legislature, or the PSC?
She's really, really, really gone and done it now.
And she should know better.
She was bought up from Clean Line along with the GBE project. She's been working on this project as long as you have. Beth thinks landowner concern about property rights has been nothing but an act for 10 years?
You know, 10 years is a long, long time for busy farmers to carry on a "fake" grassroots movement to prevent "clean energy." Like farmers have nothing better to do than spend a decade of their lives, and a big chunk of their savings, just to make sure "clean energy" isn't delivered to Missouri and other states.
Landowners across Missouri have shown up in Jefferson City to support property rights legislation again and again. I've honestly lost track of how many years legislation has been proposed. Does Beth think it's easy for these folks to take a day out of their work schedule to travel to the capitol? Unlike Beth, these people never take a day off. Animals still must be fed and cared for. Crops still need attention. There are a million different things farmers need to accomplish every day, and there is no time clock to punch out for a day to visit Jefferson City just to fight against "clean energy."
What is wrong with you for suggesting such a thing, Beth?
Missouri landowners are about the most genuine people I know. They don't have time or money to play fake political games. They are fighting to protect their property rights because they are deeply concerned. They are concerned that their generational farms are being slowly gobbled up by development for benefit of others far, far away. They are concerned that construction of a new transmission line across their farm is going to hinder their productivity and lower their yield. They recognize that GBE isn't a necessary power line needed to provide electric service to their neighbors who don't have it. Instead, it's a private, for-profit roadway through their farms that's going to make Invenergy a bundle of money. GBE won't benefit these landowners in the least, and for their trouble Invenergy wants to pay them a "market value" pittance. Worse yet, if the landowner resists Invenergy's offer, Invenergy wants to use the solemn power of the government to condemn and take the land of uncooperative landowners. Nothing at all "fake" about being concerned about that.
Maybe Beth should take a look in the mirror? After all, isn't there an active complaint at the Missouri PSC regarding Invenergy's fake claims about what project it's trying to build? Beth herself claimed in a podcast that Invenergy was building transmission for gen tie and started that ball rolling. Invenergy has been all over the media (and at the Kansas Governor's place) touting its changed plans. But yet, Invenergy has been telling the MO PSC that its project hasn't changed a bit and that it's still entitled to use the threat of eminent domain to coerce landowners to sign agreements.
Seems to me that Invenergy is the fake one. Pretending to build one thing while planning another. Pretending it's about to condemn property in order to get landowners to sign early and cheaply. Pretending that it's bringing "benefit" to Missouri.
Pretending that GBE could prevent a Texas-style power outage in Missouri. Now that's really FAKE! The project Invenergy says its building in Missouri will sell 100% of its capacity through negotiated contracts with load serving entities in other states (less a tiny fraction for Missouri municipalities looking for a free lunch at the expense of landowners miles away). Another option for Invenergy is to sign with a generator who wants to deliver to customers at the other end of the line. The point is that ALL GBE's transmission capacity will be owned by other entities. These entities control what flows over GBE and where it goes. Beth and Invenergy cannot commandeer GBE back from the customers who own its capacity in order to ship energy to other customers elsewhere. So, let's say another big freeze happens across the Midwest and Missouri's generators freeze up and go offline (this would never happen because Missouri generators are protected from winter weather). If that happens, Missouri would need a big shot of power to keep the lights on. Except Missouri's neighbors are probably also having issues and have no power to spare. Even if they did, unless they owned some of GBE's capacity to use for this purpose (or could purchase or rent it through someone who did), GBE is about as useless as a bucket underneath a bull. GBE is not a public access transmission project that anyone can use. It's a private transmission project for the exclusive use of private customers who pay the most to use it.
Grain Belt Express should not have the power of eminent domain.
Beth needs to get herself back to the land of the fake in Chicago and quit insulting rural Missourians. Does she really think that's going to help the situation? Make sure your legislator knows exactly what Invenergy thinks of Missourians.
The race is on... who is going to stop Invenergy's fake condemnation of private property in Missouri first? The legislature, or the PSC?
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