A new post by WJLA ABC7 local news and Fox45 local news reporter Gary Collins entitled ‘Clean energy’ goals forcing Maryland to double size of electric grid, Moore official says is showcasing perfectly the limits of “clean energy” virtue signaling ideology in Annapolis… and also the way local Maryland politicians will always exempt their lands, their labor from the very “rules” they’ll try and force on everyone else – particularly those in the countryside. It almost perfectly exemplifies the term “neo feudalism” — which is rampant in MoCo and beyond.
What is neo-feudalism? “Rules for thee, not for me” is a quick answer. Wikipedia defines it as “Unequal rights and legal protections for common people and for nobility, dominance of societies by a small and powerful elite, a lack of social mobility, and relations of lordship and serfdom between the elite and the people, where the former are rich and the latter poor.”
At the heart of this coming dispute over massive power line construction, potential seizing of private properties (so-called eminent domain), energy starvation (in MD, because of Annapolis clean energy / greenwashing mandates) and data center (energy hog) construction are some key players – including someone local.
They are: Eric Luedtke, Governor Moore’s chief legislative officer and a former state delegate, and husband to a MoCo Councilmember Dawn Luedtke, the MPRP (power line builder) developer, Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), and Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick County residents and landowners (the hoi polloi).
“[The Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project] is being presented to us as a way that Maryland is going green, but it’s not,” Beale said. “They’re talking about destroying hundreds of acres of farmland, of preserved agricultural land, of land that goes through wetlands, endangered species, and all kind of things they should not just be plowing through to put up power lines.” A Carroll County resident is quoted as saying, in the Fox45 piece.
Notice who isn’t going to be impacted by the potential taking of lands, via eminent domain, by PSEG… MoCo residents (at least so far). And specifically wealthy, large lot (2 acre) owning residents in Ashton, MD who work in local government. Their site lines and forested lot will be A-OK. No eminent domain needed.
Yet, the cause of all this confrontation is mainly because of legislation back in 2019 called SB0516, the ridiculously named “Clean Energy Jobs Act”, which is 100% the source of this energy starvation in MD and the pressing need for more power transmission grid construction right now. Maryland is increasingly starving itself of basic, reliable, energy sources and therefore has to import energy from neighboring grids. Look at how it was celebrated by a special interest group back then:
The challenge and the key in Maryland right now is the distribution infrastructure,” Luedtke said. “That is going to remain a challenge that we are going to have to work through.
Yeah, well, you should have thought of this sir when you supported this ideological bill in the Maryland House, back in 2019:
This story is just getting started. Virtue signaling is meeting reality. More to come.
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