Comments on: Electric transmission lines, eminent domain, and the consequences of vague and broadly worded laws – Part 1

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By: Scholars and Rogues » DOE Revisits National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:38:26 +0000

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By: Brian Angliss

Brian Angliss — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:11:32 +0000

fikshun – can you email me some references on that project you’re talking about?

Thanks.

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Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:32:49 +0000

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By: Djerrid

Djerrid — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:41:24 +0000

Wow. What an excellent and informative article Brian. I don’t have anything to contribute except thanks again for giving all of us another eye-opening and exhaustive expose of an issue hidden way behind the headlines.

By: fikshun

fikshun — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:14:40 +0000

Great post.

Speaking from local experience, a lot of us in rural San Diego county hate this. We’ve been fighting the local power company SDG&E, trying to keep a new transmission line from cutting across beautiful east county areas like the town of Julian and the Santa Isabel valley. It’s very demoralizing to feel as though you’re making headway and then have the Federal Government step in and say “suck it up, we’re taking the land”.

The onus should be on us, the residents, to conserve power and come up with better solutions. I imagine for the money SDG&E will spend to put in this transmission line, as well as buy all the property necessary, we could have given local area residents nice rebate incentives to go solar.

By: JS O'Brien

JS O'Brien — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:35:46 +0000

OK. I think this deserves a comment just because of all the work you put into it. Clearly, any time the gummint starts deciding that the common good (as the gummint defines it) is more important than the individual, there’s cause for concern. Of course, that happens a lot and has to happen a lot.

I know precious little about the US energy grid except for what I hear from my clients in utilities who insist that it’s a mess.

Thanks for the heads up.