Like molasses, FERC is moving on Delaware and Maryland’s cost allocation complaint, raising the oh-so-pertinent issue that they’re being charged for transmission yet aren’t receiving the benefit. I wonder if Minnesota, pass-through state of the Midwest, is paying any attention, particularly with this MISO 17 project MVP Portfolio and the bill for the massive transmission build-out of these projects and CapX coming due? And remember, Illinois Commerce Commission v. FERC August 6, 2009, is still in negotiations.
Here’s how FERC framed Delaware and Maryland’s issue, note the similarity with Minnesota as the pass through state for outstate generation headed eastward:
On November 24, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued an order which accepted a PJM Tariff filing on Artificial Island, then suspended the changes for five months.
The FERC accepted the October 9 PJM filing, which responded to a complaint from the Delaware and Maryland public service commissions regarding the cost allocation for transmission.
FERC has determined that overall the current method of allocating the costs of transmission projects is just and reasonable. In certain instances, however, the allocations led to complaints that individual results were unjust and unreasonable.
The commission is setting up a technical conference for early 2016 to explore whether an alternative cost allocation system can be established for projects which do not fit well with the FERC’s current solutions-based methodology.
PJM will be pleased to support the FERC’s process to explore alternative cost allocation methods for projects that may not fit into the current process.
The PJM Board of Managers approved the Artificial Island project on July 29.
Thanks to the STrib’s Libor Jany for posting the Statement of Probable Cause for Allen Scarsella. The four are Scarsella, Joseph Backman, Nathan Gustavsson, and Daniel Macey. Hennepin Co. Atty. Freeman’s press conference starts soon.
It looks like all four will be charged. I’m very glad to see the County Attorney handling this quickly. I believe they’re also looking at whether to charge this as a hate crime. Given all the video and online threads, it’d be pretty hard to show it wasn’t a hate crime.
Methinks cognitive dissonance has people’s minds in a wringer leading to silence.
Whenever a police officer is killed or seriously injured on the job, my facebook feed lights up with “Prayers for _______,” “blue line” memes, and #policelivesmatter hashtags. Officer Garrett Swasey was killed by a white male terrorist at Planned Parenthood of Colorado Springs, likely one of the first on the scene of that violent attack. Five other officers, not publicly identified, were injured. Yet the internet is virtually silent. The usual many, many comments are not there. Only two of the many people I know who are usually filling the feed with “Prayers for” comments have offered concern about the fallen officer, and there’s been nothing at all regarding those injured.
There are quite a few comments about this silence…
A suspect is taken into custody outside a Planned Parenthood center in Colorado Springs, Colorado November 27, 2015. Police arrested a gunman who stormed the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Colorado Springs on Friday and opened fire with a rifle in a burst of violence that left at least 11 people injured, including five officers, authorities said. REUTERS/Isaiah J. Downing FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
What am I thankful for? I’m thankful that we have an opportunity, today, to recognize and acknowledge our rights, and our right and obligation to stand up for our rights and the rights of everyone, but particularly the rights of women, blacks, Muslims, immigrants, and everyone else who is under siege. It’s times like these where I’m thankful to be an attorney, sworn on oath to uphold the Constitution, grateful to have this piece of paper that says I can open a door for others. Day to day, I do this in a small way, helping people speak up, participate, and exercise their rights. But the much larger picture is so ugly. Each and every one of us, this is our right and our obligation. We have lost so much in the rights department since 2001, and now our most fundamental Constitutional rights are being challenged from all sides, in many venues. Stand up, ramp it up.
Today, it’s a domestic terrorists shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, CO, so far shooting at least one police officer killed and four injured, and two civilians killed and unknown others injured, 9 or maybe more civilians injured.
Planned Parenthood notes that:
We share the concerns of many Americans that extremists are creating a poisonous environment that feeds domestic terrorism in this country.
It’s not surprising there’s be a terrorist at a Planned Parenthood, it’s happened before, and will probably happen again. But it raises the issue of responsibility of speech. One of the latest right-wing political distractions has been a protracted, orchestrated, inflamed and vitriolic focus on Planned Parenthood, based on a phony video, and aimed at cutting Planned Parenthood federal funding. Nevermind that Roe v. Wade is the law of the land since 1973, despite so many attempts to legislate it away (like the 50+ attempts to repeal “Obamacare”), since that time there have been repeated efforts to strip federal funding, many Planned Parenthood clinics do not offer abortions, abortions constitute just 3% of services, and look HERE at the government funding. And today a guy goes in and shoots up Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, CO.
What this says to me is that this is not about abortion. It’s a rallying cry to limit Constitutional rights, and to prevent women’s access to health care and birth control, cancer testing, and STD treatment.
In tandem, we see a rallying cry to prohibit entry of refugees, to establish a “religious test,” and such inflamed hatred directed at Muslims, citizens and non-citizens alike. Horrible, ugly stuff. Over and over, the rants are based on a claim of theocracy, the the U.S. is a “Christian” nation, and that only “Christians” should be allowed in. Not a thought is given to the founding of this country by people fleeing theocracy! No weight is given to the Constitutional prohibition of establishment of a state (government) religion.
And in Texas, a Texas militia group posts names and addresses of Muslims and “Muslim associates” (report HERE) for what purpose other than to encourage “religious” terrorists? Here’s THE Texas Militia site: Texas Militia. Same one?
Donald Trump is a prime offender, but it’s much broader than Trump.
