Looks like there's something in your ointment.
Yes, we all know you're in a great, big hurry to get your Wind Catcher scam approved by state regulatory commissions. And just when you thought you had things all sewed up in Oklahoma with a July 2 commission hearing on your settlement agreements with certain parties, Stan dropped the ball.
Stan did nothing to put out the opposition fire that started in and around Bixby. In fact, he threw gasoline on it by ignoring the concerned people and pretending he had things handled in the media.
Yesterday, the City of Bixby filed a motion to intervene at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Bixby reasons that it did not receive proper notice of the project in time to participate in the administrative hearings before the Commission. Up until about a month ago, AEP planned to route its transmission line north of Tulsa through Osage County and tie into its northern substation. Now AEP says it will use a route south of Tulsa right through Bixby, and word is AEP has optioned a 160-acre property upon which to build a ginormous, new, 40-acre substation in Bixby, just down the road from Bixby's planned new elementary school in one of the fastest growing areas of the city.
The City of Bixby also filed a motion to continue hearing to postpone the Commission's July 2 hearing on Wind Catcher until September 1 or later. The City of Bixby needs that time to examine Wind Catcher's application, and the Commission needs to calculate exactly how much cost a new 40-acre substation and re-route south of Tulsa will add to Wind Catcher's cost. The City also asks that the Commission schedule a public comment hearing for affected individuals in and around Bixby.
Bixby's assistant mayor commented the other night regarding the substation, saying that he just couldn't even imagine what a substation of that size would look like. Neither could the people of Mt. Airy, Maryland, when AEP proposed a 41-acre substation for its 765-kV PATH transmission line on a farm surrounded by thousands of homes. Those people fought that plan...
Yes, we all know you're in a great, big hurry to get your Wind Catcher scam approved by state regulatory commissions. And just when you thought you had things all sewed up in Oklahoma with a July 2 commission hearing on your settlement agreements with certain parties, Stan dropped the ball.
Stan did nothing to put out the opposition fire that started in and around Bixby. In fact, he threw gasoline on it by ignoring the concerned people and pretending he had things handled in the media.
Yesterday, the City of Bixby filed a motion to intervene at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Bixby reasons that it did not receive proper notice of the project in time to participate in the administrative hearings before the Commission. Up until about a month ago, AEP planned to route its transmission line north of Tulsa through Osage County and tie into its northern substation. Now AEP says it will use a route south of Tulsa right through Bixby, and word is AEP has optioned a 160-acre property upon which to build a ginormous, new, 40-acre substation in Bixby, just down the road from Bixby's planned new elementary school in one of the fastest growing areas of the city.
The City of Bixby also filed a motion to continue hearing to postpone the Commission's July 2 hearing on Wind Catcher until September 1 or later. The City of Bixby needs that time to examine Wind Catcher's application, and the Commission needs to calculate exactly how much cost a new 40-acre substation and re-route south of Tulsa will add to Wind Catcher's cost. The City also asks that the Commission schedule a public comment hearing for affected individuals in and around Bixby.
Bixby's assistant mayor commented the other night regarding the substation, saying that he just couldn't even imagine what a substation of that size would look like. Neither could the people of Mt. Airy, Maryland, when AEP proposed a 41-acre substation for its 765-kV PATH transmission line on a farm surrounded by thousands of homes. Those people fought that plan...
...and they won. No one can be sure what it would have looked like, but it would have been monstrous.
It looks like AEP planned to tie into an existing substation north of Tulsa. Now they're planning to build an entirely new substation? That comes with a huge increase in cost and time to construct. And just the other day AEP said it had not yet decided on a route. No final route. No substation. No timeline. No idea how much this will cost or when it may be completed.
The only thing missing from this jar of ointment is the shysters from Clean Line popping back up and saying, "I told you so!" Of course, using Clean Line's proposed route would have necessitated the construction of another huge tie line from the south to existing lines in Tulsa, sort of the same situation AEP finds itself in right now.
Almost, AEP, almost. You almost got to enjoy all those creamy, delicious profits. And then they were snatched right out of your hands by wildfire opposition.
Ut-oh!
It looks like AEP planned to tie into an existing substation north of Tulsa. Now they're planning to build an entirely new substation? That comes with a huge increase in cost and time to construct. And just the other day AEP said it had not yet decided on a route. No final route. No substation. No timeline. No idea how much this will cost or when it may be completed.
The only thing missing from this jar of ointment is the shysters from Clean Line popping back up and saying, "I told you so!" Of course, using Clean Line's proposed route would have necessitated the construction of another huge tie line from the south to existing lines in Tulsa, sort of the same situation AEP finds itself in right now.
Almost, AEP, almost. You almost got to enjoy all those creamy, delicious profits. And then they were snatched right out of your hands by wildfire opposition.
Ut-oh!
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