Those are the words from Tim Gregori when he heard that Grant County [Washington] Public Utility District said no to purchasing power from SME.
According to the article in today's Tribune, Grant County PUD notified SME in late June that they were not interested. Gregori claimed "this is the first I heard of it. We never really had a formal relationship with Grant County PUD. At this point, it's immaterial."
At the June 16 Grant County PUD regular meeting, representatives from SME presented information on the Highwood project. This article was posted June 20 announcing the idea and by the time Grant County PUD met on June 30, opposition seems to have been running high.
Even though Gregori claims this is "immaterial", he must of thought it important enough, since he took a swat at CCE, criticizing them for sending "inaccurate" information about the plant to central Washington-area residents.
I really don't think that Grant County PUD relied only on information given from a non-profit organization, not in favor of the coal plant, to make their decision.
It's called due diligence. Too bad the City of Great Falls didn't do it.
According to the article in today's Tribune, Grant County PUD notified SME in late June that they were not interested. Gregori claimed "this is the first I heard of it. We never really had a formal relationship with Grant County PUD. At this point, it's immaterial."
At the June 16 Grant County PUD regular meeting, representatives from SME presented information on the Highwood project. This article was posted June 20 announcing the idea and by the time Grant County PUD met on June 30, opposition seems to have been running high.
Even though Gregori claims this is "immaterial", he must of thought it important enough, since he took a swat at CCE, criticizing them for sending "inaccurate" information about the plant to central Washington-area residents.
I really don't think that Grant County PUD relied only on information given from a non-profit organization, not in favor of the coal plant, to make their decision.
It's called due diligence. Too bad the City of Great Falls didn't do it.
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The FACT is that the Grant County commission had to reach a decision last Monday (on their agenda posted at gcpud.org) regarding the integration of the Highwood coal plant's energy into their long-range energy plans due to the state 1 Sep. Citizens there were ATTENTIVE and concerned and encouraged their commission to PERFORM due diligence, which they did and nobody in Montana performed a 'Vulcan mind-meld' on 'em..the PUD commissioners made a conscious decision on their OWN.
As for 'innacurate' information, I ask SME to identify specific innacuracies, as we'd like to know, especially the information we've sought to complete Highwood cost projection spreadsheets, since it seems EVERYTHING is proprietary and citizens are forced to rely upon open-source information, which seems to have been adequate for our city and county commissions, who are still kept 'in the dark' but the cover of 'trade secrets' which compelled citizens and MEIC to file suit to fulfill our state's vigorous open government and open records provisions.
We await a list of innacuracies, along with the 'off limits' document log being worked by whom again, the city staff and/or SME?
LOVE THOSE TRADE SECRETS.
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