County officials will get about an hour to meet with the federal Gateway West Transmission Line Project “Rapid Response Team” Friday and its response to Power County on another transmission project suggests they have some work to do. This team of nine federal agency officials appointed by President Barack Obama will meet with state, and local officials about the proposed 1,150-mile Gateway project, which would run from Glenrock, Wyo. to Melba. Idaho counties have generally praised the Bureau of Land Management’s handling of this project in part because it studied routes they proposed. But on another project, the Mountain States Transmission Intertie Project, Power county has been especially critical of the BLM for its lack of responsiveness. In October, chairwoman Vickie Meadows wrote a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar complaining. “Our requests get ignored, BLM promises are broken and the project moves very slowly, if at all,” she wrote. So how did Salazar respond to the October 13 letter from Power County? He didn’t. In fact no one from Interior did...more
Guess he was too busy with Obama's Great American Outdoors to answer this letter. Let's see now, how many voters are there in L.A. as compared to rural Idaho?
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