Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Sunday, August 17, 2008 1:26:03 PM
I have only one question concerning
"The Plan". On whose land do we put these wind turbines? Okay, two questions... is that included in the price? Becuase that will be 'the question' when it comes to getting this thing to work. Purchasing land, condeming land, court cases, land leases, enviromentalists, and a host of other problems there are with getting the land you need to build these things on.
But a short search netted a interesting find. A Popular Mechanics article goes into another part of his 'plan',
a water pipeline.
Pickens is in the planning stages of a $1.5 billion initiative to pump billions of gallons of water from an ancient aquifer beneath the Texas Panhandle and build pipelines to ship them to thirsty cities such as Dallas. So far, no city has taken up his water company, Mesa Water, on the offer. But company officials and experts agree that a continuation of the drought impacting large portions of the United States could turn Pickens into something of a water baron. His yet-to-be-built pipeline would follow the same 250-mile corridor as electric lines carrying power from his wind farms. Pickens prompted the creation of a public water supply district, run by his employees, that can claim private land for the pipeline route through eminent domain. (Follow the pipeline's path here.)
Eminent domain. That is how he is going to make it work. Take citizens land for the good of the country. We all know how that works with the Supreme Court case
Kelo v. City of New London. The government can take your land for just about anything now, as long as it is deamed good of the public.
So of course you can follow Mr. Pickens logic. Beacuse of the current hype about global warming, he will build a water pipeline that he will control, he will get his wind turbines up without having to pay for the land, and he already is well invested in natural gas.
He will make a ton of money. He has got to sell it, but the odds are pretty good considering the current climate and the likelyhood of an Obama win.