The Transmission Line to Nowhere

While the Governor's press office shot off releases faster than the Gube can text message a Mazzeo lookalike last week, there was one about the Gube signing some phase two report about the so-called "green" power transmission line.

Kickheifer was so busy shooting them off, he forgot to archive this one, but the New Jersey bloggers, who like publishing press releases because it makes for easy faux-journalism, nabbed it for your viewing pleasure. (NJpol)

Don't get me wrong. Where would blogs be if not for faux-journalism?

Anyways, as I noted before, the so-called "green" transmission line--marked by the large red arrow in the pic--is "faux-green" if you will. It is now sold and packaged as a means for transporting solar power from southern Nevada to the north. But for some reason the main proposed line heads towards Ely, not the population centers up in the north east.

Course, Ely's one of those places the Gube and the power company want to build some greenhouse gas spewing coal plants. Indeed, Michael "Smiling Yackman" Yackira, the fellow who runs the power company, explicitly linked the coal plants and the line just last month:

The proposed Ely Energy Center would rely on coal from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana, arriving at the power center by rail. The generation plant would use a new 250-mile transmission line to carry the electricity to Nevada Power and Sierra Pacific Power Co. customers.(LVBP)

Don't you love a bait and switch?

And if you're really bored, head on over to the Nevada Climate Change Advisory Committee archive of meeting minutes. (NAMBLA) You'll thrill to Gube appointee Mendy Elliot  working hard to undermine a modest proposal for a mere 10% decrease in greenhouse emissions by 2020 and arguing that the state had to find ways to make greenhouse gas reductions profitable to power producers. (MayMins) Set aside the fact that those producers have enjoyed a century of profits without having to pay the real costs of what they do: pollution and climate change.

Comments

[dave]

gee, isn't that the water pipeline corridor?