We Don’t Trust Them.
The following was submitted in response to the announcement by the chairman of the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that the agency will review
its approval process for interstate gas pipelines:
If
FERC were an agency which truly put the public interest first, the
announced plan to review their process for approving pipelines would be a
welcome development. But facts don’t lie: over the past 30 years FERC
has granted permits for all but two proposed interstate gas pipelines.
It is a rubber stamp agency, and it has been this through both
Democratic and Republican administrations.
This
announced plan comes on the heels of FERC’s efforts in New York to
override the rights of states to make decisions on air and water permits
for proposed pipelines. It comes as FERC considers Rick Perry’s order
that they change regulatory rules and increase costs to consumers so
that coal and nuclear power are given special privileges in the
supposedly fuel source neutral, FERC-regulated market.
The
“need” as far as new gas pipelines is to stop building them and get
serious about the urgently-needed shift to renewables. But all signs
indicate FERC is going from bad to worse. Instead of moving forward into
the 21st century world of wind, solar and other renewables, the Trump-appointed
FERC leaders want things to go backwards to the fossil fuel-dominated 20th century. We don’t trust them.
Source: Beyond Extreme Energy
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