Like Sherman’s march across Georgia, Clean Line Energy Partners wants to string a 4,000 megawatt transmission line across Arkansas so that wind energy from Oklahoma’s panhandle can be delivered to the Memphis area. The Arkansas Sierra Club, the Southern Wind Energy Association and of course the Department of Energy all heartily support the project. Arkansas landowners don’t and are fighting to keep the power line off their land.
The Department of Energy however has weighed in and claiming the power to grant eminent domain has awarded Clean Energy the land it wants for the project. Now the courts get to decide who has sovereignty over where transmission lines are sited, the states that the line runs across or the federal government that wants to see “clean energy” moved from the relatively empty West, across flyover county to the populated East.
State’s rights were ceded long ago in favor of an unlimited, forceful federal Government. Under the Progressive/Socialists it has grown even more powerful.
What determination will a Federal Judge or Court make?
@cato – States rights were indeed ceded long ago, specifically June 21, 1788. That’s when the statist framers ratified the Constitution with its 5th Amendment.
All the landowners have to do, is to place a little AMFO at the base of the transmission towers along the path, and keep doing it until the DOE and Clean Energy move the lines elsewhere.
I’ve enjoyed reading all the MSM articles about why there was a huge blackout recently caused by the failure of the entire grid in South Australia. Just kidding, of course: there has been virtually nothing written about the failure because it was forecast years ago and occurred pretty much exactly as foreseen. SA closed down its last coal fired base generating station, the only synchronous facility left, and when the wind fluctuated a bit, and not even to a particularly unusual extent, the bat-chomping bird-slicing eco-crucifixes could not coordinate to maintain the required 50 Hz AC frequency.
So, yeah, lets connect more and more crap “renewable energy” sources to the grid. Greedy idiots.
A couple of good articles about the event and what led up to it:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/10/01/south-australias-blackout-apparently-triggered-by-the-violent-fluctuations-from-the-snowtown-wind-farms/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/10/02/south-australias-wind-energy-crisis-state-wide-blackout-were-foreseeable-and-foreseen/
@JMV:
FTFY
Oh please let their be an Indian reservation along that path
And that’s folks, how commies fuck you over, little by little all for greater good. 😉
I’ve been seeing these clearings of land all over the place that are marked near the highways with tall poles that have strings of flags between them, looking like a finish line at a motocross race. I thought at first that they might be having a chuck wagon race or something — flags all over the place, like a used car lot or something. Then I heard they were running gas lines. And now this.
Just wait until we get a good freeze going and the ice takes these lines down, like it does about every other winter with the electric lines in N. Arkansas.
I have relatives in Memphis, but that doesn’t keep me from saying “Fuck Memphis!” Fuck the sierra club and southern wind too.
And where’s the tree huggers on this? Thousands of trees are being cleared for this project.
If I were a landowner I would tell them I am a spotted owl farmer.
Mark Zist, you might be able to do that with honey bees soon. They are now considered an endangered species in Hawaii.
Uncle Al–
does DHS SWAT have enough personnel and funds to constantly patrol 700 miles of transmission lines/towers? I doubt it. Armed insurrection/civil disobedience is the only way things will ever change in this country, especially the way things are now.
JMV, I have some G men acquaintances, and they claim DHS doesn’t have their own “Soldiers”. They use everybody elses from DOJ to ATF to Local.
Okies couldn’t just sell the NRG to Amarillo via a 20 mile line, could they?
Then the energy that Amarillo DIDN’T demand could be absorbed by the ‘grid’; meanwhile, Memphis buys from the grid and local solar.
@JMV – I don’t see a realistic alternative to hard-nosed civil disobedience on the way to armed insurrection – we are agreed on that point. I do think it isn’t very smart to take explosives to an easily forecast place. I would be smarter to blow up the statist executives on their way to the office.
Not that I would ever EVER do anything like that or even THINK of encouraging anybody else to do such a horrible thing.