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Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF) retweeted
The entire process has been chaos. Rushed timelines. No accountability. No due process for landowners. Estimated $10 billion in "uncompensated" property value. Utility bills go up. Grid reliability goes down. Failure to justify that these massive transmission lines will solve the problem. And approved routes that will destroy some of Texas beloved rivers. @MQSullivan @RobbyMontoya let's hope our state leaders wake up.
Well, what do you know… It seems the @PUCTX commissioners may not want to follow the Lottery Commission down the path to oblivion after all.
Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF) retweeted
Things scarier than Halloween? Watching the state approve massive transmission lines through private property despite widespread opposition.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas recently approved the first of three proposed 765 kV transmission lines, despite objections from landowners, lawmakers, and property rights advocates.
American Stewards of Liberty has intervened in all five segments of the project and plans to appeal the latest decision.
For Texas landowners, the fight is far from over.
Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF) retweeted
“How much? $100 BILLION, with a B?!”
That’s @drbennettTX's lifetime cost estimate for Texas’ 765 kV plan.
What do households get for their share? Where’s the added reliable generation?
Why not build power near the Permian’s abundant fuel?
Watch his explanation. 👇
@TPPF @kevinsparkstx @BradBuckleyDVM @ShelbySlawson @wesvirdelltx @LtGovTX @GovAbbottPress @DrSchwertner @TXlege @TexasScorecard
Lawmakers Asked “Where’s the $100 Billion Number From?” Here’s the Answer 💰
Brent explains why this affects every Texan. Texas spreads transmission costs across the whole system these lines are being built in West Texas, everyone in the ERCOT region pays for them
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Did Geren’s legislative role and his wife’s professional relationship with Oncor create a potential conflict of interest? Note that Robert Black went to Abbott's office 3 days before PBRP.
Snapshot of top layer of the web. It is profound and deep. @GregAbbott_TX let's vote for PUC commissioners.
Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF) retweeted
Our lives and livelihoods are more than lines on a map.
When landowners painstakingly document and map homes, schools, businesses, and productive ranch and farmland they say @oncor missed, is anyone reviewing that information? Does it change anything?
Does private property matter to @PUCTX?
These are families’ futures. Their concerns deserve answers. #Stop765 @GovAbbottPress @LtGovTX @TXLege_
The route was drawn from behind a computer screen. Scott Brown documented his family's lodge inside the 500-foot buffer. The assessment was never updated.
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Watch the full YouTube video here: youtu.be/D9VdOn-bHa4
Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF) retweeted
Massive transmission lines could soon crisscross Texas to carry wind and solar power. If Rahm Emanuel is praising Texas’ “green energy” push, shouldn’t that give you pause?
Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF) retweeted
#txlege, #johnrich, #secrollings Here’s the truth. The Public Utility Commission Texas needs to be reformed. The Commissioners need to be elected not appointed so they answer directly to the Public. The very same Texans they should be serving. Lt Gov Patrick, AG Paxton, Chairman Schwertner, Chairman Buckley, 40 plus Senators and Representatives, and 6 Administrative Law Judges all have called on the Commissioners to delay or deny these extra high voltage 765kV transmission lines that are scaring thousands of acres of land and negatively impacting the livelihood of thousands of Texans but yet they continue to trample on our due process rights. It appears there are shady dealings going on behind the curtain. They answer to the large utility corporations that are guaranteed billions in profits on the backs of Texas ratepayers. They do not protect the very same people they were sworn in to protect. This has to stop.
Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF) retweeted
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#txlege The majority of the Senators on the Business & Commerce Committee are on the landowners and ratepayers side. The way ERCOT used the electric grid model to justify the Permian Basin Reliability Plan’s 765kV Transmission lines was manufactured. They “cherry picked” future demand and generation to force electricity to flow from east to west thus calling them import paths. They then included these massive transmission lines into the statewide 2024 Regional Transmission Plan as they were existing infrastructure. The three import path transmission lines were never checked for “need” in a statewide model that uses “all” future load and generation. ERCOT has created falsehoods….the Public Utility Commission hasn’t stepped up. As Senator Kolkhorst said….”We (l) don’t like Falsehoods!!!” Keep fighting…keep swinging away…ask for an independent investigation.
Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF) retweeted
In a memo dated 8/6/26 Gleeson wrote regarding Docket 59315:
“Ultimately, I believe the ALJs misinterpreted the requirements in our rule. The plain language of the rule only requires that a utility hold at least one public meeting prior to filing its application. Oncor satisfied this requirement by holding at least one public meeting and mailing notice of the public meetings to landowners within 500 feet of the centerline of the transmission facilities as the project existed at the time. Oncor's actions were consistent with Commission
precedent. In past CCN licensing cases, the Commission has found that utilities satisfied the public
meeting requirement by sending notice to landowners within 500 feet of the preliminary links presented at the public meeting-even where the utility subsequently added or modified links after
the public meeting.”
Let me decipher this for you. Basically ONCOR doesn’t have to afford every impacted landowner a public meeting because the PUC makes the rules to benefit the TSPs not Texans.
The @PUCTX has the worst case of regulatory capture and cowardice I’ve ever seen. They side with Cali-based Sempra and to hell with Texans.
#txlege
Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF) retweeted
Where is the fiduciary responsiblity to protect ratepayers in Texas? An additional $100B subsidized by Texas households will hurt the least among us. texaspolicy.com/100-billion-…
Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF) retweeted
Permian demand is set to triple. These 3 lines carry only ~6 GW. So why are oil & gas majors pushing this plan while data centers go off-grid?
I asked @drbennettTX. He breaks it down.
My vote: Property rights. Common sense. My hard-earned money stays in my wallet to support causes I choose, not globalist ESG goals.
#Stop765 @TPPF
Permian demand is set to triple, but these three lines only carry about 6 GW. Dr. Brent Bennett on why the oil and gas majors are backing a project that won't serve them, and why data centers are building their own off-grid gas instead of waiting.
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Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF) retweeted
State Sen. Kolkhorst: "We have TDU’s that are guaranteed a 9.6 percent rate of return." #transmission #TXSen
Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF) retweeted
This is the heart of the problem.
West Texas has about 40 GW of wind and solar, compared with only 5 GW of natural gas. The proposed 765-kV lines are a very expensive band-aid, not a long-term reliability solution.
As @drbennettTX explains, if Texas does not fix the market and build more dispatchable generation, @ERCOT_ISO will be back asking ratepayers for more money to finally build the thermal generation we should have started with.
So how much reliability does this project actually buy for its estimated $100 billion lifetime cost? Nada.
Each Texas household is estimated to shoulder an additional $150-$200 per year. And that is just for THIS transmission project.
Stop forcing Texas families and landowners to fund a corporate globalist ESG agenda that raises our bills and takes our private property.
@TPPF @PUCTX @GovAbbottPress @LtGovTX
#Stop765 #KeepYourPoliticsOutOfMyPurse
40 GW of wind and solar in West Texas vs. about 5 GW of natural gas. Dr. Brent Bennett explains why the 765-kV lines are a band-aid, and why without fixing the market, ERCOT will be back asking for more in 10 years.
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Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF) retweeted
State Rep. Brad Buckley is asking U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to oppose ERCOT’s 765-kV transmission buildout and support a pause until the 2027 Texas Legislature can review the project.
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Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF) retweeted
Landowners question the modeling used to justify proposed 765-kV transmission lines.
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Clare Nelson, Retired (Executive Director at DIF) retweeted
The 765KV transmission project in Texas is the Green New Deal‘s best friend. This project will further our dependence on unreliable wind and solar generation. @ERCOT_ISO cooked the books to make it so, tried to make Pablo the $6M man, @PUCTX rubber stamps the deal and hard-working Texans pay the bill. @SecRollins, these lines trample private property rights to advance a radical climate agenda right here in your home state. Join us in opposing this project and call for a pause until the people’s representatives take this up in the 90th #txlege
A massive 300-MW solar project that threatened productive farmland in Montgomery County, New York, has been stopped.
@GovKathyHochul’s administration approved Flat Creek Solar DESPITE fierce opposition from farmers and a historic Amish farming community. But local residents fought back and WON — and now the developer has surrendered its permit.
America should never be forced to sacrifice its most productive farmland to satisfy a radical energy agenda.
@USDA will continue standing with American farmers, protecting the land that feeds our nation, and ensuring rural communities have a voice when their future is on the line.
Governor Hochul should listen to New York’s farmers, not steamroll them.
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