"...Go often askew,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!"
What does it mean when a inexperienced company posing as a "utility" takes to Change.org with a couple of petitions that address nothing (But feel real good to sign. Support wind, yay! Jobs, yay! "Ally", yay!... Wait, what? Is this "Ally" by any chance a Clean Line employee?) to try and salvage public opinion for a project? When, after snarkily dismissing the opposition's petition because it's signed by people from other states, it sneakily sends out an email to supporters from other states asking for them to sign in support?
Well, it might mean that their Updated Section 1222 Application can't stand on its own two feet. Or that all those promises for taxes might be just promises (See Appendix 4-A, pg 5&6: The Feds are fixin' to own themselves a brand new shiny line -along with some number of easements- in Arkansas... but not the capacity. Wait, what?) Or that the relationship between certain parties involved in this project (not even talkin' about you, Jimmy) might be a little too close for kosher. It might mean that they're preparing an awesome comment that, yet again, won't deal substantively with any of the serious issues that have been raised about this debacle, but will include a 600 (ba-hahaha!) voter survey of Arkansans showing we support P&E. (Landowners? What landowners? Oh, wait... You mean the Sierra Club Executive Committee member you have listed on your website as a "landowner" even though he isn't even on the route? That landowner?) Because if there's one thing we've learned as a country, it's that if you have a majority opinion based on half-truths and rhetoric that tramples on the rights of a smaller, underrepresented minority, the majority is clearly in the right. That always turns out well.
Listen, guys... You can't outsignature the opposition and expect it to change anything. At least not with the people you'll actually have to deal with if by some miracle this thing goes through without SWN cleaning your clock for virtually ignoring their interest in the Fayetteville Shale (Hint: even with the current natural gas slowdown they are money in the hand. You are money... maybe... someday... when the legal battles are over... possibly).
Who are the mice here? And who are the men?
I gotta go, but I'm just gonna leave this here. Who is ElephantRider? Welcome to the microcosm. Enjoy:
And... Feelin' free to send along, as instructed:
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