The Energy Department announced this week that it would not move forward with designating three areas as National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors, a move that could get them federal help to speed up powerline buildout.
A press release from the agency said that the previous administration had sought to designate these areas as a high priority “as a means to advance their Green New Scam agenda.”
“Transmission policy must serve the American people—not special interests or a climate-alarmist agenda that drives up costs, worsens reliability, and disregards the concerns of local communities,” said Energy Secretary Chris Wright in a written statement.
The Biden administration identified three corridors to be part of the program: parts of Lake Erie and Pennsylvania, parts of Colorado, New Mexico and Oklahoma and parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska and five Native American reservations.
Designating power lines in these areas as being in the national interest would have allowed federal regulators to issue permits to approve them if states do not act quickly enough or deny them permission to build.
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