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People Love Wind - Just Not In Their Backyard

11/25/2019

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I've been waiting at least a decade for offshore wind to catch up with onshore wind.  Finally, it's getting real!

Take a look at a map of wind energy potential in the U.S.
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The blue, red and purple have the most potential.  In addition, offshore wind blows more consistently than land-based wind.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine that the best potential is offshore.  But the wind energy industry has been using the wrong map, one that doesn't include offshore wind.
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This makes it look like the best wind potential is located in the middle of the country.  And that's where they've been building it for the past decade.  Except there isn't a lot of demand in the middle of the country.  Electricity usage is highest where the most people are, mainly along both coasts and the Great Lakes.  Serendipity!  That's where the greatest offshore wind potential is located!

Big wind developers have overbuilt in the Midwest, and now they're out of nearby users.  The more they build, the more they need to export, and export to load centers requires billions (or even trillions) of dollars of new electric transmission.  That's expensive!  And it's even more expensive to bury it, so big wind and big transmission developers have been hard at work trying to necessitate big overhead transmission builds that will fly over all those communities between the middle of the country and the coasts.

And now, finally, the populated coastal states have figured out that harvesting nearby offshore wind for their own use, instead of importing it from the middle of the country, makes financial sense.  It keeps their energy dollars in their own state and region and fosters a whole new offshore wind industry in their communities that will provide local jobs and economic development.  Win-win!

Except the people who live there don't want industrial energy infrastructure in their own back yards.  They don't want to see wind turbines on the horizon or have their night views ruined by blinking red lights.  And they certainly don't want their beaches disturbed by new electric cables connecting offshore wind turbines to their already substantial transmission networks.

But they still love wind, just not in their own backyard.
Fenwick Island resident Tom Brennan asked why consideration isn’t given to putting windmills closer to Indian River Inlet, and “continuing the commercialization up there instead of ruining of what we have down here?”
Ms. Dudley Eshback referred to periodic flooding at Fenwick Island State Park. “Should the proposed major power transmission plant be flooded following one of these regularly occurring and increasingly frequent storms imagine the public safety impact. It could be very disastrous,” she said. “We must explore alternative, clean sources of energy. And I’m not an expert on wind energy, turbines or transmission stations but I do know it is folly to consider further developing and destroying what little open space is left.”
And they have plenty of suggestions of someplace else to put it.  Except those folks don't want it either.  Nobody wants industrial renewables in their own back yard!

Well, welcome to the world of industrial renewables, everyone!  The people in the middle of the country don't want it either, especially when they will receive absolutely no benefit from it.  Nobody in the middle of the country wants to have their horizon ruined with turbines and blinking red lights.  And that's not the entirety of onshore wind... they're built so close to existing homes and businesses that the people suffer from shadow flicker and other health effects.

Nobody wants to live near industrial onshore wind installations.  Nobody wants to live near industrial offshore wind installations.  Nobody wants to live near industrial wind installations!

Maybe industrial wind isn't the answer?  Industrial wind actually supplies a very small percentage of our power.  It's impact on climate change is really very small.  However, the big wind industry has been pumping out the propaganda so long, that a lot of Americans are completely brainwashed into thinking that it is the solution to climate change.  And the big wind industry has been making money hand over fist installing its infrastructure across the country.  The intersection of corporate profits and climate change propaganda deserves careful thought.

Industrial wind is an orphan nobody wants.  Instead of pushing it off somewhere else and accepting the sacrifice (as long as it's not OUR sacrifice), isn't it time we all stand up and find another solution that doesn't cause any sacrifice?  The reality of industrial wind is now being revealed to the populated coastal areas, and they don't like it.  Eventually will also realize that it's nothing more than a corporate money-making scam that does little to reverse climate change.

We need better solutions, for everyone!
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Transmission Tax Credits Are Dumb

11/23/2019

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A bunch of schemers who profit from building transmission have announced their "Statement of Principles" for overbuilding transmission.  Big deal.  The "principles" are just so much glittering generalities, such as:
  • Policy makers in the United States and its several states and municipalities and in Canada and its several Provinces, Territories, and municipalities are urged to review and improve the regulation of the infrastructure that comprises the electrical grid, to (1) streamline processes governing economic and environmental reviews of projects where possible, (2) promote economic and energy efficiency, (3) deliver important environmental benefits, and (4) ensure equitable sharing of the cost of needed infrastructure, as appropriate;
  • As applicable, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Department of Energy, and state economic regulators should assess the need to improve upon and revise regulatory processes and corresponding regulations and policies governing the planning and cost allocation of high voltage electric transmission, balancing the public's interest in expedition, cost savings, care of the environment, and an equitable sharing of burdens;
  • U.S. States and Canadian Provinces and Territories that adopt renewable electric generation (fuel) requirements for their domestic utilities and other generators should, at the same time, recognize and take into account the extent to which such policies necessitate the development of additional transmission lines and/or the deployment of advanced technologies;
  • Canadian and U.S. industry leaders and public policy makers must ensure that investment in grid infrastructure in both countries responds effectively to threats from extreme weather and cyber intrusion.
"We want new laws that gut regulation and make it easier for us to do whatever we want."  Why use 1,000 words when 18 will do?  Really, there's nothing in the "principles" that a good lobbyist couldn't cure.

These "principles" were supposedly cooked up at the first "International Summit on the Electric Transmission Grid."  Apparently, it was a frothy good time! 

"This will be a frothy presentation of new planning approaches driven by new technological developments."

WTF?  Frothy?  Who wrote this garbage?  An intern who moonlights at Starbucks?

All the usual suspects were there...  trade groups, unions, and environmental organizations.  These guys will support anything that makes them money or checks a box on a grant deliverable.  Doesn't make it necessary or needed.  Oh, c'mon, quit pretending that your money making goals benefit anyone other than yourselves.

Sounds like this "summit" was a bit of a joke and the only guys there that weren't biased towards more transmission as a money maker or grant deliverable made fun of the other speakers.
“The turf wars and feuds between RTOs are legendary; MISO and SPP, these people, for reasons that are often lost to the mists of time, they don’t really like each other that much, and they don’t work well together,” Skelly said. “So the notion that FERC’s going to pass something that says, ‘Hey, you guys, coordinate and work together’ … come on. It has not happened, and it’s not going to happen.”

In a later panel, MISO President and COO Clair Moeller disputed that, saying, “I’d submit we don’t actually have a planning problem. We have an objective problem. The reason we don’t get the answers that everybody agrees with is that people’s objectives are different.
“Lanny and I had a fistfight in the bathroom because RTOs don’t get along well,” he joked, referring to Lanny Nickell, SPP senior vice president of engineering, who was in the audience. “Well, that’s simply not true. The simple fact is the objectives are different.
Making crap up... and being called out on it.  Way to go, Mikey!  RTOs are set up to serve their own regions.  They're not set up to provide benefits for other regions.  Just because Skelly failed to find any economic need for his interregional transmission projects doesn't mean there's a problem with the RTOs.  There's just a problem with Skelly.  He keeps trying to pin his own failure on everyone else.

Skelly also had this terrible idea:
Skelly also described the confusion that state regulators have to endure when being pitched multiple interstate lines. “We need policy mechanisms so that the RTO shows up and FERC shows up. Somebody needs to show up from some sanctioned body to say, ‘Yes, this makes sense.’”
But FERC commissioners “hate telling state regulators what to do,” Gensler said. “That is a fate worse than death for most FERC commissioners.”
FERC Commissioners hate telling states what to do because they have no authority or jurisdiction to do so.  It doesn't matter what FERC or the RTO thinks about a transmission project.  The state doesn't care.  Its regulators are following state laws and policy.  In fact, the heavy handed interference of FERC and RTOs in state regulatory proceedings can have the same compelling effect as your mother suggesting you wear a hat and boots to school when you're a teenager.  It inspires secret rebellion for rebellion's sake alone.

Lots of "formerly" important people were there, such as former DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz, who got all excited reminiscing about the Paris climate change thing and an "absolutely beautiful" attempted rape of Arkansas.
“For the United States, the integration with Canada, and the opportunities for getting additional carbon-free electricity is absolutely essential” to reaching the targets under the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, said Ernest Moniz, former secretary of energy under President Barack Obama. “We have to get the infrastructure to support it.”

He talked about “an absolutely beautiful case” under Section 1222 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Clean Line Energy Partners’ Plains & Eastern Clean Line. “It was a beautiful example to implement, and the only problem was called ‘Arkansas.’”

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Maybe it's the hair?  Why didn't Arkansas just submit to Clean Line's advances?  Why did Arkansas think it had any rights to say "no?"  Next thing you know, Arkansas is going to start smoking cigarettes and thinking it should have the right to vote!

But maybe this was all about something else...
As a potential solution, Skelly pointed to Sen. Martin Heinrich’s (D-N.M.) announcement that he would introduce bills to create an investment tax credit for “regionally significant” transmission projects and to direct FERC “to improve its interregional transmission planning process.” Heinrich, however, has been introducing similar legislation since 2015 to no success.
Oh, right, Martin Heinrich, legislative utility pet.  This guy has more electric utility and energy company and environmental group political donors than any fossil fuel company I know.  He could make a Koch brother blush!

But, as RTO Insider tells us, Heinrich's legislation is rarely successful.  Thank goodness for that!  Especially because Heinrich's new "idea" that came out of this ridiculous transmission-lovin' circus is completely unworkable.
“Where this is right now, I have floated this with people across the industry who have done this type of work, and they have said it would make a real difference,” Heinrich told E&E News in a brief hallway interview.
Right.  All the folks at his Transmission Summit never look their gift horse in the mouth.

So, what makes this idea so bad?
Heinrich said the general framework of his bill would enable an investment tax credit for transmission development that meets a “regionally significant” threshold.
Such an incentive, he argued, would represent a more cost-effective way to help promote transmission development than other measures, although the New Mexico Democrat admitted he’s still working out the exact bar for how much the credit would be worth and what projects would qualify.
The need for additional transmission lines to help move power from rural outskirts to more heavily populated corridors has increasingly come to the forefront of energy planning and the push to add more renewable energy onto the grid.
“It could potentially be a game changer,” Heinrich said. “We are going to have to build a lot more transmission to have a completely green grid. You have to be able to move those electrons from where they are generated to where they are used.”

How are we going to define "regionally significant," and who is going to make that determination?  Let's face it, your real purpose is to build transmission for renewable energy.  But the electric transmission grid is "open access" to all kinds of energy, and it is completely impossible to separate "clean" electrons from "dirty" ones.  An electron is an electron.  Any tax credits for transmission will also support "dirty" energy.

As well, lack of investment isn't the problem.  A number of investors wasted over $200M (that's two hundred million dollars!) on Clean Line Energy Partners and never recouped a dime.

Heinrich envisions this working similar to the federal production tax credit for wind energy, where energy produced generates tax credits.  Except we're doing away with the PTC.  It expires at the end of this year.  Why would we need a new tax credit for transmission?

Especially when FERC already administers a generous transmission incentives program that awards all sorts of financial benefits to transmission owners.  At least those incentives are paid for by the users of the transmission in question.  One of the first principles for cost allocation is determination of benefits.  The cost of transmission shall be paid for by those who benefit from it.  Under Heinrich's brilliant idea, all the tax payers in the U.S. would pay for transmission that only benefits a handful of users.

Houston, we have a problem.  This idea is one of the dumbest! 
That infrastructure has hit hurdles, both political and regulatory, that have added years and millions of dollars to development, resulting in the abandonment of more than one high-profile transmission project.
An example is the proposed Plains and Eastern Clean Line project, a $2.5 billion, 705-mile transmission line from Oklahoma to Tennessee to deliver up to 4,000 megawatts of wind electricity. It stalled last year after running into individual state permitting problems.

And what do federal tax credits do to solve state siting and permitting problems?  Actually, nothing.  Less than nothing, because a state is likely to reject a project that is made more costly through added incentives.

Dumb, dumb, and dumber!

What is the solution?  Building renewables closer to load as distributed generation.  No transmission needed.  Ratepayers will save a bundle while the energy supply gets cleaner.  But then again, it wasn't called the Frothy International Distributed Generation Summit.  And none of those people donated to Heinrich's political campaigns.

No matter how badly these people want to overbuild transmission, they will never be successful.  We simply don't need it.  There are much better ideas!
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Transource IEC No Longer Meets PJM Benefit Cost Ratio

11/19/2019

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It was bound to happen.  The Transource IEC has tanked and fallen below the benefit to cost threshold allowed by PJM.  The sooner PJM admits this and abandons this project, the cheaper it's going to be for ratepayers.  We're all on the hook for the cost of the project, so the sooner they quit spending money on it, the better off we'll be.

PJM is still trying to pretend that the IEC maintains an acceptable benefit/cost ratio, but it got the stink eye from someone who sees through all the baloney at a recent Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee meeting.  Who would you rather believe?  An independent member with no stake in the project, or PJM's assurances that we should blindly trust their magic math?

RTO Insider reports that PJM's analysis of the reconfigured Transource project was challenged by Sharon Segner, vice president of LS Power, at last week's TEAC.
Transource Energy’s alternative configuration for its Independence Energy Connection project doesn’t pass PJM’s cost-benefit test, LS Power said last week.

Sharon Segner, vice president of LS Power, told the Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee on Thursday that her company’s review of the newly proposed path for the eastern segment of the project only carries a benefit-cost ratio of 1, far below PJM’s 1.25 threshold.

Segner said PJM’s base case used to calculate the ratio doesn’t consider the impact of a nearby project that would alleviate congestion on the Hunterstown-Lincoln 115-kV line. PJM plans to present both projects to the Board of Managers in December for inclusion in the Regional Transmission Expansion Plan, Dumitriu said.
PJM pretends the IEC project has a 1.6 to 1 benefit/cost ratio.  But Segner says that a different project, a rebuild of the Hunterstown-Lincoln 115-kV, will eliminate a lot of the congestion that Transource is proposed to solve.  Now that PJM will be seeking approval for Hunterstown from its Board, the congestion solved by the Hunterstown project needs to be subtracted from the IEC's benefits.  Once that is done, the IEC no longer meets the 1.25 to 1 minimum ratio.

Both of these projects cannot relieve the same congestion, it's one or the other.  How much cheaper would it be for ratepayers to only pay for the Hunterstown rebuild?  The IEC is a dead dog that PJM just won't bury!

We no longer need the eastern leg of the IEC.  Without it, do we really need the western leg of the IEC?  Since PJM has refused to separate these two geographically diverse segments into stand-alone projects, chances are that the western leg cannot stand on its own.  It was always an "add on" to fulfill a transmission operator's eager dream to be able to connect the parallel west to east transmission lines by running a north-south line between them.  Now that the congestion issues in the east can be solved by a simple re-build, the western segment has no basis.  We're spending an awful lot of money trying to make this connection, including rebuilds of other lines that would support this north-south connection.

It's all a house of cards!  So, PJM will be presenting both the reconfigured IEC AND the Hunterstown-Lincoln rebuild to its board at an upcoming meeting and seeking approval for both.
Meanwhile, PJM must update its RTEP to include the alternative plans for the IEC.

“We are going to give the board the complete picture of what’s going on,” said Ken Seiler, PJM’s vice president of planning. “There’s a lot of moving parts and a lot of variables, and we will make sure the board has the right information.”

Seiler added that “at some point,” the plans must move forward. “The area is congested and will be congested until we get some of these projects built,” he said.

Ya know, I seriously doubt that PJM will give its Board "the complete picture" when it makes it presentation in December. It wants to double count congestion relief benefits on each project.  C'mon... it's one or the other, but not both.  The PJM Board of Managers needs to start acting in the best interests of the ratepayers it works for, instead of its utility members.
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File This Under "M"

11/18/2019

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...for muddled, when your confusion causes you to come to inaccurate conclusions.

It's really no surprise that CleanTechnica has published another article touting the Grain Belt Express, written by someone from Union County, New Jersey, that makes inapt conclusions.  This author has been missing several crucial pieces of the GBE puzzle for years and doesn't appear to any closer to finding them.  It's always about how fabulous wind power could be, if only GBE gets built.

This article focuses on the new Nucor plant in Sedalia, Missouri.  As a small part of its planning, Nucor signed a power purchase agreement with Kansas energy company Evergy for wind power from Kansas.  Wind power supplied on existing transmission lines.  The plant is slated to open by the end of this year.  GBE is still  nothing more than an idea without the necessary permits.

Access to wind power had little to do with Nucor's decision to site the plant in Sedalia.
Nucor selected Sedalia because of its shorter time and lower freight costs to ship rebar to Kansas City and the upper Midwest and Plains markets as current cargoes "travel long distances," the company said in its November 2017 announcement.
The steelmaker also highlighted ample scrap supply available in the immediate area for deciding on the region.

Except in the muddled mind of the CleanTechnica author, who somehow makes the unlikely GBE the notable reason for both Nucor and other new manufacturing possibilities in Missouri.
Missouri also has easy access to some of the very best wind resources in the US — or it would, if the 4,000 megawatt Grain Belt Express long distance wind transmission line ever gets done.
Seems like several crucial facts got left out here.  Like the fact that only 500 MW of GBE's proposed 4,000 MW capacity is even available in Missouri, IF a conversion station gets built in Missouri (but GBE has lost its option to purchase land to site the station) and IF a corporation chooses to pay the high costs to purchase the remaining Missouri capacity left after GBE sold 200 of the 500 MW to Missouri municipalities at a loss.  The loss must be subsidized by other buyers in order to make the project financially viable.

Seems like Nucor choose Missouri despite its distance from "cheap" wind power in other states only accessible through "high priced" existing transmission.  If it was all about access to "cheap" wind power, Nucor might have chosen to site in Kansas, or Nebraska.

Instead, the fake news environmental organizations like to pretend that "clean energy" was the driving force behind Nucor locating in Sedalia, and that GBE had something to do with their choice.  Anyone who listens to the trash Renew Missouri pumps out as "news" is bound to have their thinking muddled.

Here's the reality:  Nucor chose to site its new plant in Missouri despite the fact that GBE is going nowhere.  We don't need GBE to attract new industry to Missouri.  Nucor is proof that it can happen.

Therefore, there is no need to sacrifice private property and agricultural productivity, along with the jobs and economic development this industry provides, in order to attract other industry to Missouri.

CleanTechnica also continues to make crucial errors about the viability of GBE.  It continually fails to recognize that GBE's Illinois permit was vacated by the court.  GBE  is NOT approved in Illinois, in fact it's back to square one.  It hasn't even filed an application for a permit.  In addition, its Missouri permit has been appealed and the matter has yet to even be heard.  GBE is regressing, not progressing.  Meanwhile, Missouri continues to thrive without it.  That's the real story.
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Coalition Sues to Block Boardman to Hemingway Transmission Line

11/14/2019

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The Boardman to Hemingway transmission project probably needs a longevity award for its sheer annoyance.  It's been bumping along for more than a decade now, still no closer to actually being built.  If it hasn't been built in more than 10 years, chances are good that its necessity has been obviated.  Once upon a time, it got added to Obama's "Rapid Response Transmission Team".  That really helped, like the kiss of death.

And now it's headed through the court system.  Nothing rapid about that!
Concerned citizens across Oregon have joined forces to oppose construction of the massive, nearly 300-mile-long, Boardman to Hemingway (B2H) high-voltage transmission line. Stop B2H Coalition and Greater Hells Canyon Council charged the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service with failure to adequately review the impact of the route Idaho Power has proposed for the B2H transmission line across five eastern Oregon counties. The suit was filed in federal court in Pendleton.

The suit addresses the federal agencies’ failure to adequately evaluate the need for and environmental effects of the line, which would cause harm to family farms, residential areas and wildlife habitat.

Jim Kreider, Co-Chairperson for Stop B2H Coalition, explained: “Public comment on the federal environmental review closed more than four and a half years ago, long before Idaho Power completed its design for the project. The transmission line route was changed to pass within 2,000 feet of homes in La Grande, and there has been a lot of new information about the project’s likely destructive impacts on eastern Oregon. We are trying to prevent catastrophic damage to our public and private lands by an out-of-state corporation which prioritizes profits for its shareholders.”

The citizens groups’ complaint also cites likely public safety hazards along the project route, including geologic instability and excessive noise near homes, recreation areas and campgrounds. The B2H project would also crisscross the Oregon Trail’s historic ruts and viewsheds—yet BLM refused to consider a citizen-proposed alternative of burying the line for less than two miles in front of the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center in Baker County, where 40,000 people come each year to admire the historic Trail.

"This power line would literally cut a permanent destructive swath through local forests and grasslands," said Brian Kelly, restoration director for Greater Hells Canyon Council of La Grande, who also expressed concerns for BLM’s failure to adequately address impacts on wildlife corridors, clean water, climate change, habitat for elk, deer, salmon, and more. "We must protect these values that are so important for all of us.”

The citizens groups say that BLM underestimated the line’s impacts on several resources, including Morgan Lake Park and the habitat of imperiled plants, fish and birds—including the Greater sage-grouse, whose Oregon population in 2019 reached its lowest level in three decades—as well as the likely spread of invasive weeds on public lands and family farms. “In addition to those obvious deficiencies,” Kreider went on to say that “technological changes in the utility industry have made Idaho Power’s 12-year-old proposal obsolete.”

The groups are represented by Portland-based attorneys, including the Crag Law Center.
Rrrrrrr.  Rrrrrrrr.  I think this "rapid" transmission project's battery is dead.
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Transource's Tall Tale

11/13/2019

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"Look, look," said Transource.  "We care about your community!  We're planting trees!"

Honestly, this public relations stunt is about as transparent as tracing paper.

Instead of reporting on the way Franklin County got tossed under the bus in Transource's settlement with York County, the media covered Transource's propaganda stunt like a trained monkey.

Transource pretended that it "donated" money "to support local conservation efforts of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed."  Is this the same watershed that it's going to degrade with new transmission on new right of way in Franklin County?  You betcha!

So, while Transource "volunteers" (wanna bet these employees were paid their normal hourly rate, which is charged to electric ratepayers, while "volunteering" for an out-of-office activity) planted 300 trees to create a future riparian buffer along the West Branch of Conococheague Creek, it still plans to destroy the mature riparian buffer along Falling Spring?

Trees and vegetation would no longer shade the stream in the area, which would damage the habitat for fish and the insects they feed on, according to Chris Rudyk, vice president of Falling Spring Chapter of Trout Unlimited. There's also a danger of defoliants running into the stream. Many defoliants approved for use in Pennsylvania cannot be sprayed in California, New York or Delaware, Rudyk said.
Warren Christman, chapter president, said blasting during construction could impact the flows to the limestone creek.

Of course!  They call it "mitigation," as if destruction of nature can somehow be negated by helping nature somewhere else.  A real nature-boosting "donation" from Transource would be if they packed up their carpet bag and hightailed it back to Columbus, Ohio.
“At Transource, we are proud to advance shared priorities like this and we understand the important role streams play in the natural ecosystem and community recreation,” said Todd Burns, director of Transource Energy.
Shared priorities?  Get outta town, Todd Burns!  Todd Burns only understands the important role streams play in the natural ecosystem and community recreation when the stream in question isn't slated to be destroyed by his company's money-making schemes.

What's the point of all this?  I'm guessing Transource's fee-fees were a bit bruised when its settlements with eastern leg parties weren't glorified by the media.  The people of Franklin County failed to lie down in front of the bus like defeated doormats.  Transource maybe thought it needed a little good press to counterbalance all the negativity stemming from its settlements.  Gagging settling parties didn't create a media lovefest.

But here's the thing.... nobody cares!  Transource shot its wad way too early.  The real negativity hasn't happened yet.  It's dangling over Transource's head like an anvil on a fraying cable, and when it drops it's going to flatten them.  What's Transource going to do when that happens?  Throw cheap candy from a garish float in a Franklin County Christmas parade?  Quick, someone think of a random act of fake charity Transource can hide behind when the anvil falls...
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