News from the PATH public hearings
Since Monday’s power company PR event, I haven’t had much time to work on PATH reporting … I do promise to get the Coal Tattoo reader questions and power company answers up on line shortly.
Meanwhile, the West Virginia Public Service Commission began its public comment hearings on the PATH project Tuesday and Wednesday over in Shepherdstown, W.Va.
You can read more about those hearings from West Virginia Blue, the Martinsburg Journal, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
And over at the Maryland Energy Report blog (published by John Howley, whose brother Bill Howley does The Power Line blog here in West Virginia), there’s an interesting post called AEP strains trust of Marylanders.
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I attended all three of the hearings in Shepherdstown. A couple of observations: The speakers in favor of the project were (with one exception, noted below) members of the IBEW and the carpenters’ unions, and almost all of them were from Maryland and Virginia. One of the union guys told me he got a call at home the night before the hearing “suggesting” he show up.
As for the one gentleman who spoke in favor of the project who did not identify himself as a union member, he cited the blackouts and brownouts that California went through in 2000 - what, he never paid any attention ever to the news? You know, the investigation into Enron’s manipulation of electricity supplies, prices, etc.? NOT because of an inadequacy of either power or transmission lines? In fact, another example of greed run amuck (just like PATH)?
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