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By Calhouner
Can someone please explain to me why there is a media blackout on the PATH line?
More than 230 people have petitioned to intervene in the PSC case, probably the biggest number of intervenors ever, and there is nothing about it in any state or national media outlets?
Bloggers and newspapers in WV are debating lots of abstract policy ideas about alternative energy and global warming while 230 West Virginians are doing something about it.
National media outlets are covering PATH as if it were three different power lines in three different states. Why aren't they covering the amazing story of citizens and groups coming together to fight PATH across state lines?
Why aren't Washingon area media outlets letting their listeners know about how West Virginians feel about PATH and vice versa?
Why are the Charleston and Parkersburg and Wheeling papers not informing their readers that if PATH is built, they will be paying for this obsolete project on their electric bills?
The state media outlets ignore all the most important reasons why PATH is a bad idea and focus on land owners. Then, to confirm their self-made self-fulfilling account, they claim the only opponents of the line are land owner NIMBYs who don't want the line in their backyard.
Major media outlets spend their time xeroxing power company press releases and cashing advertising checks from power company ads, paid for by every rate payer in West Virginia. Right now, the best current reporting on PATH is being done by the Buckhannon Record Delta, Calhoun County's online Hur Herald and the Martinsburg Journal. Where is everyone else?
The silence is deafening. Why?
-- Cross posted on The Power Line, The View from Calhoun County at http://calhounpowerline.wordpr... |
