EXCLUSIVE: Trump team compiles infrastructure priority list

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Trump team compiles infrastructure priority list

President Donald Trump’s team has compiled a list of about 50 infrastructure projects nationwide, totaling at least $137.5 billion, as the new White House tries to determine its investment priorities, according to documents obtained by McClatchy’s Kansas City Star and The News Tribune.

The preliminary list, provided to the National Governor’s Association by the Trump transition team, offers a first glimpse at which projects around the country might get funding if Trump follows through on his campaign promise to renew America’s crumbling highways, airports, dams and bridges. The governor’s association shared that list with state officials in December. The group told the officials the projects on that list were “already being vetted.”

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Comment by Deborah Andrew on January 30, 2017 at 5:41pm

Eric, you are right about the state of ND, let's not let this get in the way of exploring, perhaps advocating for state banks as an option to consider.

Comment by Sherwin A. Start on January 30, 2017 at 5:35pm

THe U.S. Government  PROVES AGAIN that it KNOWS how to WASTE BILLONS of dollars !Its too bad that the PEOPLE Of this Country do NOt have one word as to how their TAX  Money is Spent!!

Noteably was their Plan to BUILD Power Transmission Lines  for the Conveyance of ENERGY from thw WEST coast to the MID-West users market- AT TAXPAYERS   EXPENSE - Mean While in NEW England the ALL Important CRitical Infrastructure is paid FOr  By the RATE Payers in the POWER GENERATION STATES - i.e.   MAINE,New Hampshire and VERMONT !!!

Being an engineer- I can tell u for a fact that- There are Many City's and Towns  and States that are  Loosing ground every day  in their ability to Keep their CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE Maintained & Operational - Roads, Streets, Water Treatment Systems, Potable Water Supply Systems, &  etc.

In fact the latest report submitted by ASCE - Shows that OUR Infrastructure is literally  CRUMBLING  into total disrepair and Loss of Use - IN OTHER WORDS we CAN'T keep Maintained  What we Already Have in PLACE !! 

Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on January 30, 2017 at 5:33pm

Not that it is related to state banks, but ND is not so keen either when it sells your mineral rights out from under you for a price the state agrees to, leaving the owner with $.05 per $75,000 retail value consumer cost.

Comment by Deborah Andrew on January 30, 2017 at 5:29pm

Our response should be to prevent any public/private partnerships or private funding ... instead to form state banks (as in ND).  Read Ellen Brown on this subject for more details.

 

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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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