![]() ![]() A separate suit held the CMP transmission line was in the public’s interest. It has financially propped up local opposition groups, and has directly poured millions into extended hearings, court cases and referendums the first referendum was summarily declared unconstitutional. It is headquartered in Florida and operates in 30 states and five Canadian provinces. NextEra is one of the largest fossil fuel energy providers in the nation. has led the fight to block a Central Maine Power transmission line that would allow Canadian hydropower to pass through Maine to markets in Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() These delays enhance fossil fuel corporation profits.Ī 2020 article in the Atlantic summed it up well: “The oil industry is quietly winning local climate fights.” The article continues: “In the past few years, the American Petroleum Institute and its allies have fought climate friendly policies in at least 16 different states.” If court challenges fail, they fund referendum to overturn approved projects. If regulatory approvals are ultimately granted, they fund court challenges to these approvals. They have stoked (NIMBY-type) fears and called for added hearings at state and local levels of government portraying power lines as dangerous, an intrusion on traditional scenic views, fishing, hunting and other quality-of-life activities. These realities have been understood and cynically played by fossil fuel energy producers with no regard for the environmental consequences: continued global warming.ĭriven by profit motives, fossil fuel interests from Maine to California have worked to slow grid system upgrades by individual states and groups of states. No national counterpart to a federal air traffic control or interstate highway system exists. Third, notwithstanding the regulatory preference for green energy over fossil fuel energy, and the fact that improved green energy technologies have reduced the per-unit cost of this energy, grid systems capable of transmitting the increasing supply of green energy to urban markets are not being provided by state (or multi-state) instrumentalities as quickly as the need to mitigate global warming dictates. Second, fossil fuel energy facilities (and the grid systems they require) are often in close proximity to the urban markets they serve. ![]()
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