Misdelivered Mail From The Great Beyond

The GBE propaganda from Invenergy is getting pretty thick on the ground.  One landowner received this mailer yesterday, along with a 60-day notice to sign an easement or else eminent domain may be used.

Does Invenergy really think this landowner is going to visit their little website to share why they support having their property taken by eminent domain in order to make way for a speculative transmission project that has no customers?  I continue to ask... what's the point of wasting millions of dollars on garbage mailers, radio & TV ads?  The whole thing is whack and can only work in the mind of Invenergy's PR hucksters.  Sort of like "Positive Energy."  Did the same team that was responsible for that PR disaster think up this one?  Looks like it to me.

Invenergy even has the wrong address for this landowner in its files and keeps trying to send notices to an address that hasn't been used for more than a decade.  Speaking of wrong addresses, a couple of responses to GBE's advertising binge that asks recipients to visit a website to share why they support GBE seem to have been delivered to the wrong place.  Perhaps their delivery got scrambled on the way from the great beyond?  I think I'll forward them to GBE via this blog, since GBE is one of my biggest fans.

Dear GBE, 

Here’s the thing… I don’t support you. I think you are an opportunistic thief without a moral compass. I would never treat people that way. Don’t compare yourself to me. I made millions smile, but you have made millions cry. Your hundreds of threats of eminent domain to take private property has turned Missouri into The Unhappiest Place on Earth.

Never yours,
Walt Disney
Rolling in my Grave

Hello Folks!

When it comes to disaster for Missouri, we've got a lot in common!  I may have turned a whole town into an environmental disaster, but you da man, turning an entire STATE into an environmental disaster! 

I support Grain Belt Express because of its potential for both environmental and financial disaster for Missouri.  We disasters gotta stick together!

At first, everyone thought I was harmless, but when I got sprayed all  over the place to control dust, it soon became apparent that I was a bad idea, much like you.

Times Beach would be a great place to build GBE.  The landowners there no longer mind.

Love,
Dioxin Contaminated Motor Oil
Former Superfund Site

Dear Grain Belt Express,

I was once quoted as saying, "Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened." 

When the mirror is held to GBE, I'm afraid it looks like a speculative energy project without enough customers that is having way too much fun playing with its new eminent domain toy unwisely gifted by a misguided, and perhaps biased, politically-poisoned institution.

Last time I checked you didn't have enough commercial interest to make your transmission project economically viable.  But yet you seem to be in a big, big hurry to take land for a project you can't build.  Is there something else going on here?

Please stop using my name in your insultingly facile advertising.  As the former "most trusted man in America", I do not support you.

And that's the way it is,
Walter Cronkite
Reporting from the Great Beyond

Rumble, tumble, Invenergy!  You shake things up more than I do, and not in a good way.  That's why I support the Grain Belt Express!

Sincerely yours,
New Madrid Earthquake
Soon to be Born Again if They Keep Pumping Things Deep Underground

To Whom It May Concern,

On the off chance that your misguided advertising campaign actually produces more than a handful of self-interested "supporters," I advise that whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.  But I don't think you'll get much of a response from the Missouri people.  They know manure when they smell it.

I propose a grand deal... if you don't find any new supporters, then you abandon the Grain Belt Express.  What do you say?

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made public relations hacks.

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog,
Samuel Clemens (my REAL name)

Sirs:

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

You have demoralized the people of Missouri with your selfish, greedy scheme.

General John J. Pershing
No Longer At War In The Afterlife

Lovely, Contentious, Disastrous GBE,

We support you and look forward to adding you to our repertoire.

All the best,
Fire, Disease, Flood, Bad Weather and Pestilence, Inc.

Dear Invenergy,

Stop it!  You're making things tough on us.  We need the cropland you're taking out of production to stage our own disasters.

Not a fan,
Plague of Locusts

Hey Hucksters,

You don't really think people are going to go out of their way to support massive eminent domain takings across Missouri so that you can build a power line without any clear benefits for Missouri, do you?  Your "Way of the American Genius" campaign is a ship without a rudder.

What are you going to do with your manufactured support?  Push it under the noses of Missouri utilities and hope they see the light and sign up to become your customer?  Don't you know that utilities want to build and own infrastructure of their own because it's highly profitable?  Should Missouri close its own electric generators that employ thousands in good-paying jobs and replace them with energy imported from other places?

Or is this campaign just cover so you can make up "supporters" and then try to leverage your kingdom of make-believe for political purposes?

Failure looks good on you,
John Q. Public
Scanning a QR Code Because I Have Nothing Better To Do