It shouldn't take 25 years to build a power line

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It shouldn't take 25 years to build a power line
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'A baby born the same year that the Arizona Public Service company began working on a 732-mile, 3,000-megawatt line connecting a wind farm near Rawlins, Wyoming, with the power grid of Las Vegas, Nevada, would be old enough to vote today.' -conncarroll

Construction on the project still has not yet begun, but if there are no further delays, the project should be completed in just five years — almost 25 years after it was started.The project was not held up due to supply disruptions or engineering problems. Blame for the delay falls entirely on our federal government’s permitting process.

Obtaining approval from four state governments also made the process difficult, although the federal government was the biggest barrier. Unfortunately, Democrats don’t seem to care that almost all the investments they made in the Inflation Reduction Act will be for naught if the federal permitting process isn’t reformed. When House Republicans passed an energy bill reforming the federal permitting process last month, only four House Democrats out of 213 voted for it.

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