Agri-Pulse Communications, who aspires to be "the most trusted farm and rural policy source in Washington, D.C., providing a balanced perspective on a wide variety of issues including the farm bill, nutrition, trade, food safety, environment, biotechnology, organic, conservation and crop insurance" has some snake oil to sell you.
Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. is pleased to lead a webinar to discuss how expanding, integrating, and modernizing the North American high-voltage grid can drive rural economic development. Speakers will highlight the good-paying jobs that expanding high-voltage transmission will create, in addition to improved electricity affordability, reliability and sustainability.
What good paying jobs? Building high voltage electric transmission is a specialized skill that is contracted through a handful of national companies. There are no local jobs for unskilled labor building new transmission. It's not going to make your electricity any more affordable either. Those lines don't get built for free. Electric consumers pay for them in their electric bills. If they build billions worth of new transmission, you're going to pay for it. Reliability and sustainability don't belong in the same sentence. Wind and solar is not reliable. And, besides, isn't your power already reliable? Why would you want to pay for increased "reliability" you don't need?
But the biggest lie: economic development. The new transmission will cut through prime farmland, placing an impediment in the production line. In exchange, farmers will get "fair market value" for a tiny strip of land whose use as a transmission right of way ruins the entire field. And just in case you're thinking, "Oh, heck no!", you won't have a choice. The transmission (or pipeline) company will apply for eminent domain authority and your state utility commission may hand this out like a party favor. How does any of this "help" a farmer? It doesn't. Not.At.All.
Even more insulting, these folks think you're a bunch of ignorant rubes who can be easily fooled. Do they believe if they just tell you it's beneficial, that you will fall all over yourselves to get some?
Got an hour to kill next week? Sign up for this "webinar."
But the biggest lie: economic development. The new transmission will cut through prime farmland, placing an impediment in the production line. In exchange, farmers will get "fair market value" for a tiny strip of land whose use as a transmission right of way ruins the entire field. And just in case you're thinking, "Oh, heck no!", you won't have a choice. The transmission (or pipeline) company will apply for eminent domain authority and your state utility commission may hand this out like a party favor. How does any of this "help" a farmer? It doesn't. Not.At.All.
Even more insulting, these folks think you're a bunch of ignorant rubes who can be easily fooled. Do they believe if they just tell you it's beneficial, that you will fall all over yourselves to get some?
Got an hour to kill next week? Sign up for this "webinar."
It probably won't be interactive so that you can tell these snake oil salesmen what snakes really want, but at least you'll be prepared for the sales pitch when they show up in your town like a traveling circus.
And if you don't like what you hear during the webinar, be sure to tell Agri-Pulse exactly what you think about their participation in this shameful scheme to take advantage of rural folks, and if they keep hanging out with these snake oil salesmen and helping to peddle the snake oil that they may no longer be trusted by the rural communities that financially support their company.
And if you don't like what you hear during the webinar, be sure to tell Agri-Pulse exactly what you think about their participation in this shameful scheme to take advantage of rural folks, and if they keep hanging out with these snake oil salesmen and helping to peddle the snake oil that they may no longer be trusted by the rural communities that financially support their company.
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