So, any time objections are placed before Clean Line about all of the various different inconsistencies, inaccuracies, lack of information provided, etc., they give one answer: "Go to our website to find out more information."
That's exactly what I did. Many of us have been skeptical of Clean Line's drawdown at the Department of Energy from a dual, 7,000mW line, to a single, 3,500mW line. We just assumed that Clean Line has it in their plans to, at a later date, construct a second 3,500mW line. Or is the current line 4,000mW? At the Tennessee Regulatory Authority hearing last Tuesday, Clean Line testified that the Plains and Eastern Clean Line was NOT going to transmit 3,500mW as stated in their application to the DoE, but instead 4,000mW. That's a post for another day, however.
Drawing information directly from Clean Line Energy Partners website (located under "Filings - Federal") from a link entitled "Plains and Eastern FERC Filing," I will allow you to be the judge:
As recently as September of 2013, the "Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council" used similar wording in a "project" entitled "Tennessee's Advanced Energy Asset Inventory" to describe the Plains and Eastern Clean Line project. Keep in mind, Clean Line is heavily involved with the TAEBC. They are members, have a "to be disclosed" seat on their advisory committee, and also have a member in TAEBC's "delegation" (aka "lobbyist") named Max Shilstone.
Note the green snippet above that describes the Plains and Eastern as "what would be America's largest power transmission line". Sounds fun, eh?
So, what's it going to be, Clean Line? What are landowners facing, here? Your inconsistency is appalling. Is it going to be a single, 3,500mW line as described in your application to the Department of Energy? Is it going to be a single 4,000mW line as described in your testimony before the Tennessee Regulatory Authority? Or, is this a two-phase project in which you wish to impose not one, but eventually two 3,500mW transmission lines with a 750 mile, 400' wide footprint?
The true stakeholders, the landowners on the path of this monstrosity, DEMAND an answer from you in the form of a written statement that indicates your ACTUAL current and future plans. Perhaps the media would be the better avenue to seek answers to these questions? Either way, a written response can be emailed to us at:
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