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Something Suddenly Came Up

12/31/2017

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AEP seems to think that Mario Harturdo exaggerated the suitability of his Plains and Eastern Clean Line for use in its Wind Catcher project.

Shocker, right?  How could AEP possibly say "no" to Mario Harturdo's shameless groveling and begging for the company to use a worthless, failed transmission idea for their Wind Catcher project?

Just kidding!  I'm sure Mario was kidding, too.  If AEP was smart, it would have offered to buy the Plains and Eastern Clean Line, just to see what was behind Clean Line's ridiculous participation in the Oklahoma Corporation Commission regulatory proceedings for Wind Catcher.  Whoopsie, AEP!  You have to wear the dunce cap!  I mean you didn't really believe Clean Line's testimony, did you?  Have you been smelling your own fake, stilted testimony so long that you no longer recognize the scent?

What fun would it have been to disrupt Clean Line's secret deal with NextEra?  Mario never put THAT in his testimony, did he?

Michael Skelly:  "Ssssorry, NextEra, I'm going to have to cancel our meeting for Saturday night.  Something suddenly came up!"
AEP, big utility on campus, but sadly without a sense of adventure.

What did AEP say about the Plains & Eastern Clean Line in its response to Mario's testimony at the OCC?

It is my understanding based upon public information that Clean Line requested the use of federal powers of eminent domain through an arrangement with the U.S. Department of Energy under Section 1222 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 for the Plains and Eastern project. This request required the development of an Environmental Impact Statement under  the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) within which the specific purpose and need for the project, siting considerations, and specific environmental impacts for the Plains and Eastern Clean Line project were assessed and considered in order to receive final approval through a Record of Decision for the Plains and Eastern project.

Witness Hurtado has not provided any additional insight or discussion in his responses as to what potential additional permitting requirements and schedule risks may be associated with using a portion of right of way for the Plains and Eastern Clean Line project that was originally acquired for a project that was approved under a different purpose and need, under a different regulatory authority, and potentially, with different permitting requirements.


What?  You don't believe in the power of rainbow farts, AEP?  Don't you know that success in the transmission business is 99% wishful thinking and 1% actual effort?  Just look at how successful Clean Line has been dealing in fantasy and make believe for the past 9 years!  What is wrong with you, AEP?  Oh, the missed opportunities!

And when is Clean Line going to tell the OCC and the other parties that it no longer owns the Oklahoma portion of the Plains & Eastern Clean Line and therefore  no longer has any standing to participate in the case?  And when is NextEra going to file its petition to intervene out of time as the new owner of a project that was granted standing?  Or does NextEra think it has inherited a seat at AEP's settlement table?  And why would NextEra even be interested in the Wind Catcher proceedings any longer?  It now has its very own "fully permitted" transmission project that it can use to ship wind from its own wind farms.  Except it doesn't seem to have any load to serve, or any customers.  NextEra can now play the part of Jan Brady, watching AEP flaunt its huge customer base, and dream of cutting it off...
Oh, what heartbreak caused by greed, deceit and envy, where nothing is as it seems and failure is always lurking just around the next corner....
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Clean Line's Big Top Begins to Fall

12/26/2017

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Look out below, everyone!  The Clean Line circus tent is beginning to collapse.  Any clowns remaining in the ring are in grave danger!  Abandon circus, abandon circus!
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In the center ring, the Plains & Eastern Clean Line has been butchered and the tastiest cuts have been sold to NextEra Energy for an undisclosed sum.  It remains to be seen what NextEra will cook up with the piece it has purchased or whether there actually is a market for a huge amount of wind energy in eastern Oklahoma.  A NextEra spokesman commented, "...we have more work to do commercially before construction begins...".  Right.  Just like Clean Line, there are no customers.  I hope NextEra's Big Top is a little sturdier (and its pockets a bit deeper) than Clean Line's.

So, Clean Line wants to pretend that because NextEra only bought the Oklahoma portion of the project that the remainder still held by Clean Line will someday become valuable.  That crap isn't even fit for sausage.  There is no value because there are no customers who want to buy at the TVA interconnection.  In fact, it looks like Clean Line's TVA interconnection queue position has been withdrawn.  That means Clean Line no longer wants to inject energy into the TVA region.  Over.  Done.  Maybe NextEra has enough cash to speculate on the Oklahoma portion someday being viable, but even they don't think the portion from the Oklahoma border to Memphis is worth the risk.

And over in the ring to my left, the Rock Island Clean Line has fallen off the trapeze and broken every bone in its body.  The clowns have been pantomiming continuing life support, but the audience knows it's a goner.

Over in the last ring, the Grain Belt Express lies gasping while the clowns are bringing in a string of potential buyers for pieces of its carcass in their cute, little cars.  How many transmission executives can you fit into a garishly-painted VW beetle?  And what portion of GBE does anyone think is viable?

Clean Line Energy's circus is all but over.

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Fire Sale at the Fire Station?

12/20/2017

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What better place for a fire sale on bad transmission ideas than an historic fire house?  I hope Michael Skelly is sliding eagerly down his fire pole these days, giddy about shedding his failures, preserving his reputation in the business world, and maintaining his pricey lifestyle in Houston high society (such that it is in the wild, wild west).

Talk continues to swirl about Clean Line trying to rid itself of failed transmission ideas.  In addition to its stilted courting of utility giant American Electric Power to buy the Plains & Eastern Clean Line, it now seems that perhaps everything is for sale to anybody who wants to do whatever with it.  Other stalled transmission projects, such as Grain Belt Express, may also be on the auction block.  Potential buyers for GBE could be companies that may already have a transmission footprint in Kansas, such as, perhaps, a company like ITC Great Plains?  Maybe Clean Line believes that its bad ideas can be recycled into profitable enterprises?  If so, why don't they do it themselves?  Why might they be trying to sell these bad ideas to new companies?

Last time we checked, Clean Line's investors have dumped more than $200M into Michael Skelly's transmission ideas.  I guess we can't blame the investors if they're trying to salvage some value out of their investment.

But you gotta wonder about who would buy these bad ideas and legacies of hatred?  Clean Line got blamed for stirring up landowner obstinacy at a recent SPP workshop.
Landowner Opposition Formidable Obstacle to Tx Projects
Several speakers discussed the opposition Clean Line Energy Partners has faced from landowners and regulators in its plans to connect renewable resources with urban centers via long HVDC transmission lines.
“You’re going right back to the not-in-my-backyard thing,” said Ted Thomas, chair of the Arkansas Public Service Commission. “That’s causing intense pushback. ‘My granddaddy had this land. This is our family property. I don’t want this big, honking thing coming through here. You don’t understand, this property is not for sale.’”

“Siting is difficult,” agreed Missouri Public Service Commissioner Steve Stoll. “Anytime you’re dealing with private rights and eminent domain, it’s difficult. You can say you’re helping our area by giving us the ability to sell our homes and attract business, but [the landowners] don’t see much value in it.”
So why would any transmission company want to willingly jump into the pool of transmission siting fatigue Clean Line created with its arrogant, heavy-handed dealings with local communities?  Once trust is gone, it's gone forever.  I think the Clean Line projects are beyond salvage.  If real transmission companies want to build transmission for wind across Oklahoma, Kansas, or other states once affected by Clean Line Energy Partners projects, they'd do much better to start from scratch.  Any "savings" from pre-planned routes or optioned rights of way held by Clean Line would evaporate quickly in the face of regulatory and community push back that requires expensive legal battles and huge buy-off payments for acquisition of Native American land rights and local government approvals.  And, let's contemplate this... why might Clean Line be abandoning its projects?  There's your reason right there.  I believe it's because they're never going to happen.

Once upon a time there was a happy, sparkling businessman who was in the right place at the right time.  Our businessman made a bundle of money by a stroke of serendipity, and also gained a reputation as a business genius.  His genius was so bright that many other businessmen thought he farted rainbows.  So, they all ponied up their money and allowed our businessman to gamble it on one of his rainbow bright ideas.  Except it wasn't really a good idea, and the businessman struggled and grasped but just couldn't make his idea work.  The investors probably weren't too happy.  Sparkling Genius could lose not only some money, but his sparkling genius reputation as well.  So he farted some more rainbows and tried to sell his old, worn out ideas to a new crop of businessmen whose geniuses he presumed sparkled much, much less than his own.  How might this story end?
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Is Desperate Clean Line Cuckolding AEP Already?

12/19/2017

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The ink is barely dry on this
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And rumor has it that Clean Line has already started a secret relationship with another company.

Poor, pitiful American Electric Power.  Jilted before it even got a chance.  Although Clean Line's Mario Hurtado made a grand show of batting his eyelashes at AEP, I don't think he was really that into AEP.  Maybe AEP looked sort of good at 50 feet, or maybe AEP was just supposed to be acting as a beard while Clean Line got down and dirty with another company.  It seemed to me that there really was something very contrived about Clean Line's offer to AEP at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. 

I wonder if Clean Line is hoping to get a resounding and very public slap in the face from AEP in the Wind Catcher case in order to use same to bolster some new partnership that could be in the works?  What if Clean Line is working a deal with one of AEP's competitors, like maybe Next Era Energy Resources?

What if Next Era worked some deal with Clean Line to build the "first phase" of its project to eastern Oklahoma?  Wouldn't that be direct competition for AEP's Wind Catcher project?  What if AEP's Wind Catcher project doesn't get approval, but Clean Line/Next Era manage to build the "first phase" of a transmission line that Mario Hurtado claims would be very close to AEP substations in eastern Oklahoma?  Would AEP be obligated to buy energy and capacity from Clean Line and Next Era, instead of owning very profitable generation and transmission itself?

There, there, AEP.  Let me buy you a glass of wine and some chocolates and then you can have a nice, long cry.  Clean Line didn't deserve you, girl.  You're better than that.  You just stick your nose up in the air and get on with your business.  Junior High School and the energy business can be just so difficult to navigate sometimes.
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Clean Line Begs Utility Giant AEP to Open an Escape Hatch

12/13/2017

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UPDATE!
Is AEP just being taken for a ride in Oklahoma?
Will AEP end up stabbed in the back and dumped in a ditch?
Click here

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Things seem to be winding down at Clean Line Energy Partners over the last month or so.  The rats continue to abandon the mothership.  Take a look at Clean Line's "Leadership" page and notice that a couple former executives are now missing.  It looks to me like maybe the transmission folks are leaving, with only the wind energy people still on investor Bluescape's leash.  I wonder if Bluescape is trying to salvage something out of its investment in Clean Line by jettisoning the loser transmission projects and focusing on more wind farms like Mesa Canyons?

The Rock Island Clean Line is dead.  It can't use eminent domain in Iowa or Illinois.

The Grain Belt Express is on life support.  Despite Clean Line's desperate attempt to get the Missouri Supreme Court to hear its case, there has been no response and the case has been scheduled to be heard in the Appeals Court next year.  And, on the off chance that GBE succeeds on appeal, the Illinois courts must kill it because the Illinois Supreme Court already ruled in the RICL case that Clean Line isn't a public utility.  Checkmate.

The Plains & Eastern Clean Line is a zombie.  Despite the "participation" of the U.S. Department of Energy in that project, customers have stubbornly failed to materialize.  It's been nearly two years since the DOE issued its "Record of Decision" that Clean Line thinks gives its project the okay to build.  And still no customers in sight.  According to E&E News:
While not yet ready to begin construction, Hurtado said the next big milestone isn't far off, and Clean Line has turned its focus to finding key customers.

"We've been at it for a while, and we're very close to the finish line," he said.

Clean Line has yet to announce any firm agreements with Southeast utilities for transmission. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking.

"We think that there's a time-sensitive opportunity," Hurtado said. "I'm not comfortable waiting too much longer. The sooner we can get this done, the better. There are always risks, and you want to manage that really prudently. We're already in pre-construction. The sooner we get into full-fledged construction, the better."

"Obviously, the trick is to make sure that you have capacity at the right price to the people that are actually winning the contracts in the Southeast," Hurtado said. "There's direct commercial discussions that are going on that are confidential. There are RFPs [requests for proposals], and that's still moving forward. It's part of our overall commercial discussions that we've got that are sort of focused, but they're all sort of in the works."


One potential customer, the Tennessee Valley Authority, so far hasn't shown an interest in taking transmission service from the Plains and Eastern.

TVA signed a memorandum of understanding with Clean Line in 2011, but the utility currently has no need for more energy on its system as its long-range plans show no demand growth for the next decade, said spokesman Scott Brooks.

And any older power plants being shut down by TVA are generally being replaced with natural-gas-fired generation, Brooks said.
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But wait!  A real utility has proposed a new transmission project across Oklahoma.  American Electric Power wants to buy a ginormous wind farm and build a 765kV alternating current transmission line across the state and distribute the energy to its customers.  And AEP wants ratepayers in four states where it serves customers to pay for its project.  That's right, AEP wants state utility commissions in Oklahoma and other states AEP serves to allocate the cost of their project to ratepayers.  AEP is not building a merchant transmission project, where the  utility finances the project construction and then negotiates rates with voluntary customers.  AEP will only build its project if its cost will be covered by ratepayers, along with a hefty return on equity to AEP.

A look at the Oklahoma Commerce Commission's docket (Case No. 201700267) for AEP's filing doesn't look promising.  It seems most of the parties are against it, either because they don't want to shoulder the cost, or because there was no competition in selecting the wind generator.  And AEP is trying to rush this through with only a cursory examination because it must latch onto the government teat known as the Production Tax Credit before it expires in order to bring "savings" to ratepayers.  If this project only provides "savings" from tax subsidies, then it's just not worth doing.  But AEP stands to make a bundle on its investment in a new wind farm and transmission line.  Whoever owns the assets makes the profits.

And wouldn't you know it, Clean Line intervened in AEP's project docket to support this "laudable" project.  But only if AEP uses Plains & Eastern instead of building its own transmission line.  Or maybe AEP can partner with Clean Line?  Or invest in Clean Line?  Or AEP can completely redesign the project and change its route?  Or perhaps buy the Plains & Eastern Clean Line?  Or perhaps scrape Clean Line off the underside of a park bench with a putty knife, chew it up, and spit it out?  It seems that Mario Hurtado is pretty much open to anything that would monetize his fruitless efforts to build the Plains & Eastern Clean Line for the past eight years.  Sounds like Plains & Eastern is begging AEP to open an escape hatch so they can get this cash cow off the books.
Plains and Eastern is open to PSO or other utilities customers owning all or a portion of the transmission line, commensurate with their transmission needs. In addition, Plains and Eastern is open to PSO or other utilities managing part or all of the Plains & Eastern Project's construction.

If there is a demand for Oklahoma Panhandle wind in eastern Oklahoma, the Project's first phase could be built solely in Oklahoma. Subsequent phases could be built at a later date if market demands warranted such action.

While Plains and Eastern's efforts have been focused on HVDC transmission, other technical
solutions could be constructed in the Project's right-of-way, such as 345kV AC or 765kV AC. Plains and Eastern is open to modifying the
Project to a different technology or voltage level if it offers the best value to customers.

The Project begins near Wind Catcher's generation position in the Panhandle and the route runs within 50 miles of PSO's Tulsa North substation, the proposed interconnection point for the Wind Catcher line.  In eastern Oklahoma, there are also other potential interconnection points in PSO's service territory that are even closer to the Plains & Eastern Project's route than the Tulsa North substation and could be utilized to serve PSO load and other loads.
Clean Line wastes a lot of ink touting its "approved route" and purchased easements for its project as a sure thing that will save AEP time and money.  Except Plains & Eastern's route is nowhere near AEP's proposed route and does not connect with AEP's substations.  Somehow, finding a new route to connect P&E's proposed route with AEP's proposed route gets glossed over.  Why would AEP want to take some circuitous route across the state and build many more miles of transmission than it actually needs?  But like a polished used car salesman, Clean Line tries to sell its route and "relationships" with landowners as a sure thing.  Clean Line seems to take the position that is is somehow superior to AEP in the transmission building game and can do it better.
Furthermore, the Plains and Eastern team has received many questions from landowners and other stakeholders in Oklahoma about the Wind Catcher project. The team has been asked if Plains and Eastern can be involved or assist in the Wind Catcher project given that Plains and Eastern has a construction-ready, long-haul transmission project that runs from the Oklahoma Panhandle to the east and has acquired easements on more than 750 parcels in Oklahoma.
Said no one ever?  Who are these people?  Do they have names?  Why in the world would anyone want a company that has never built anything or realized a dime of revenue to "assist" a public utility that has been around for more than 100 years?
After being approached by representatives of PSO, Oklahoma landowners have asked the Plains and Eastern team if they should work with PSO even though they have already signed an easement with Plains and Eastern.
And what was the "team's" response, Mario, do tell?  Did you say, "Transmission lines are like Lays Potato Chips, you can never have just one?"  Or did you tell the landowners to slam the door in the face of any PSO (AEP) land agent?  Or maybe you told them to try to sell your project to AEP so you'd have enough cash to make the next payment on your easement option contracts?

All of a sudden, Clean Line has changed the focus of its Plains & Eastern project.  It's no longer about bringing wind power to "states farther east."  It's about bringing wind power to eastern Oklahoma now.  Ahhh... desperation, the mother of invention...
The power markets have evolved substantially since Plains and Eastern received its order from this Commission in the past eight years and eastern Oklahoma is now a strong delivery point for the Plains & Eastern Project. The Project could be utilized to accommodate high-voltage either direct current ("HVDC") and alternating current ("AC") transmission solutions to accomplish this interconnection in eastern Oklahoma and Plains and Eastern is willing to engage to consider either option. Mr. Hurtado stated that he would explain that Plains and Eastern is open to building a first
phase of the Project that is located solely in Oklahoma.
And then Mario comes out with this gem.
SPP has no plans to build new transmission
lines in the next decade, making independent transmission necessary to enable large amounts of new wind farms to be built in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
SPP plans and orders built all transmission necessary for reliability and economic reasons within its region.  Oklahoma is in the SPP region.  If SPP doesn't order it built, it's not "necessary."

And then Clean Line says its project is fully approved.
Plains and Eastern has also secured all key regulatory approvals necessary for construction on that route.
Except the "approval" Clean Line has is for a merchant project that must first secure enough customers to finance its construction.  Clean Line does not have "approval" to build a cost allocated line paid for by ratepayers in Oklahoma and other states.  It's like using an apple when your recipe calls for an orange.  As well, Clean Line's "approval" by the U.S. DOE is currently being challenged in federal court and could very likely simply evaporate when the court rules.  And until Clean Line has enough customers to finance its project, it cannot be built.  How long is AEP supposed to wait for Clean Line to find enough customers to build the line?

Clean Line says that DOE's routing of its project "approved" a preferred route.
The DOE independently analyzed the proposed route and several alternative routes in its
EIS and ultimately approved a preferred route through its Record of Decision.
But DOE does not have statutory authority to site a transmission route, therefore it cannot "approve" a preferred route.  Section 1222 of the Energy Policy Act reserves siting for the impacted states.  This point is also part of the ongoing federal lawsuit.

Clean Line says landowners in Oklahoma love them.
Plains and Eastern's careful and open approach to landowner interaction and easement acquisition established the company as a solid partner and good neighbor in Oklahoma
Gosh, that's funny.  The landowners in Oklahoma that I've talked to despise Clean Line and have vowed to NEVER sign a voluntary easement.  Perhaps all Clean Line's Oklahoma friends could be characterized as "low hanging fruit," the easy sells.  Anybody with a checkbook could acquire these easement rights.  It's the difficult ones (according to Mario's testimony more than 40%) that can delay a project for years.  I'm thinking that AEP has never built a transmission project that required eminent domain takings for more than 40% of its route.
Many landowner conversations are on-going, and Plains and Eastern is highly confident that all right-of-way necessary to start construction could be completed in time to allow for construction to start in 2018 and an on-line date in 2020.
Also hard to believe, since Clean Line is depending on the federal government to effect all eminent domain takings for its route, and the U.S. DOJ's attorney absolutely would not commit to the takings during recent oral arguments before a federal judge in Arkansas.

Does Clean Line think AEP has been in business for over 100 years because it's gullible and easily swayed by a fast-talking salesman?  AEP may be a bunch of jerks, but they're not stupid.  AEP knows a Fifty Foot Car when it sees one.

Or is this just the first act in a poorly presented regulatory Kabuki theater where AEP buys up the Plains & Eastern project and systematically cannibalizes it to extract only those land easements that work with its preferred route?  If so, Plains & Eastern is dead.    If AEP wanted to build merchant transmission, it would have proposed its own project as a merchant and wouldn't have any opposition at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.  Instead, AEP wants to build a captive ratepayer funded transmission project completely within the state of Oklahoma.  Clean Line's expensive dance with the DOE is completely useless, in that case.  But what about Clean Line's agreement to pay the U.S. DOE 2% of its quarterly profits?  Would AEP have to pay DOE 2% of its quarterly profits if it bought Plains & Eastern and used DOE's "approved" route?  I'm sure that will keep a lot of lawyers busy for a long, long time.

AEP says it will respond to Clean Line's filing by the December 22 deadline.  And, hey, Merry Christmas, Clean Line! 
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Tone Deaf Transource "Listened" But it Failed to Hear

12/12/2017

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How sad it is when a company's op ed about how much it cares about your community comes with a "fill-in-the-blank" for the name of your community?

Transource claims to have "listened" to your community, and wants you to know:
We heard about the valuable role agriculture plays in this region and our engineers worked to ensure typical farming practices in **INSERT COUNTY NAME HERE** County, from crops to orchards, could continue to exist within the right-of-way.
See York County version here.
See Franklin County version here.
Same op ed, only the county names were changed.  It's like getting a "personalized" piece of junk mail in your newspaper.
What does an electrical engineer in Columbus, Ohio, know about "typical farming practices" in Pennsylvania?  Transource "heard" what it wanted to hear  -- that its project could be built without impacting farmland.  But that's not what the community was telling Transource.  In fact, as a wise person pointed out, if Transource really heard what the community was saying, there would be a few electrical engineers tiptoeing around quite gingerly because they'd have a monopole shoved where the sun doesn't shine.

The communities in York and Franklin counties said "no" to Transource.  No, you cannot build that line across our land.  No, you cannot build the project without impacting farmland.

Todd Burns is living in some kind of fantasy world, where the communities accept the transmission project and are so happy that Transource "listened" to their opinions and "started a dialogue."  Of course, nothing much changed.  Todd just wants you to think you had some influence on the process.  Transource wants to build its project.  It will be very profitable.

The actual "folks" in the community want a "dialogue" about whether to build this project or not.  And if it's built, they want to shape how and where it's done.  Perhaps the project should be built on existing rights of way owned by other companies, or perhaps it should be buried.  The only choices Transource gave the community was to suggest that an aerial line on new right of way could be shifted onto a neighbor's property.  That's no choice at all.  That's not a "dialogue," it's a monologue.  When "folks" objected to the project, Transource tossed out some "responsible construction practices that respect the environment and your property, and the operation and maintenance of the transmission line," and some "practices to fairly compensate landowners when we acquire easements for the new line, including compensation for potential impacts or crop loss during construction and restoration."  But the "folks" were not satisfied, and they're still not satisfied.

So, what kind of performance art* was that op ed?  The affected "folks" didn't feel that their concerns were addressed.  If they did, there wouldn't be any opposition.  And yet I found myself in an auditorium filled with staunch opponents of the project last night.  And they're not giving up.  And they're not giving in.

So, yes, let's get on with this, Transource.  Let's get on to the REAL listening to "folks" that happens in the regulatory, political and public relations arena.  Let's examine the fragile claims of "need," and let's admit that this project provides no benefit to the "folks" Transource wants to burden with its impacts.

The real listening has only just begun.

*Oh for the love of Christmas cookies, Todd must think the "folks" can't read, so he needs to act it out for them on video.  I'm not sure whether to laugh or throw up.

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