Hmm,

Pecan surprise bars go pretty good with beer. 

Pecan surprise bars go pretty good with beer.   

“31C. George Golie, 316 20th Avenue South, commented that he heard false statements regarding the price of power from the Highwood Generating Station is not sustainable, it is going to degrade the water and the air and, most of all, voters should have had a right to vote on it. Mr. Golie stated that he compares those statements to the Environmental Impact Statement that has already come out. The bottom line is there are no significant adverse effects of building the Highwood Generating Station.”    

I think I’m starting to have issues with Mr. Golie. I have seen a couple statements like this that he has made to the Commission. Now Mr. G as we all know, is a board member for ECP. He apparently has full faith in the EIS, and SME. I do not, and I find it rather disagreeable that he unilaterally terms these “false statements”.   

Can Mr. Golie in fact prove that there will be no adverse impacts on air and water? No, he can not.   

Can he prove that the price of power from the Highwood Generating Station is sustainable?

No, he can not. In fact, I question any comment he makes about the price of power.   

“Right now he is paying $58.00 and some of the customer rates for our customers right now are paying $42.00, some are paying $44.00, and this refinery’s highest rate in 2011 would be $46.14.” Golie said this in early October, after he changed his power supplier to ECP. So if, at the time he said it, he was paying ECP $58 then they are not being honest about prices. If those were NWE prices, he was not being honest, because they were not his power supplier when he made that statement. (and according to Mr. Gregori, Golie doesn’t even have the prices right “Our wholesale power rate today for the members of Southern Montana Power are approximately $31.00/mwh, NorthWestern Energy’s are about $57.00.”)    

And “most of all, voters should have had a right to vote on it.” How is that a false statement? How can this man, appointed by our commission, stand there and state that the public thinking they should have a right to vote on spending their own money is false or untrue, or unjustified?   

Who does he think he is to tell the public they don’t have a right to think anything they damn well want? He already promoted building the plant on the basis of local jobs, and then removed the possibility of getting those jobs from the majority of the local people qualified to get them.    

Now he thinks we are out of line and need to be chastised for *gasp* thinking for ourselves? The nerve of those people! Don’t they know the only thing they are needed for is paying those taxes?    

8 December 2007 | Life | Comments