Arkansas Blog

What the hell is going on?

According to google Thomas Schueck owns the largest steel company in Arkansas with phenominal growth.

IT APPEARS A GUY SELLING STEEL TO SWEPCO GETS TO DECIDE IF THEY KEEP BUILDING (buying)!!!!!!!

Obviously something this blatant can't be going on!

The picture in today's DG shows what appears to be hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of steel on the construction sight.

OK, Louie, fess up. What kind of lucrative hand do you have in all this in new construction? Are you getting an exclusive on the newspaper rack setup at the plant? Promises of full page advertisements? You are a sly old dog, having survived Dickson Street, so there's nothing I would put past you.

Did you see where Dollarway got beat? Wow.

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"What kind of lucrative hand do you have in all this in new construction? Are you getting an exclusive on the newspaper rack setup at the plant? Promises of full page advertisements?"
by: Cato

Better YET! The password to Steel Wings compound...Duck and Cover!

Some men would kill you if that's what it'd take for them to make money..

I'd rather milk a cow, gather eggs, have a garden so there's plenty to eat than die with cancer.
IF everybody did too they'd always have a job and be their own boss and make babies....
Life is more that to me than meat or clothes.
God supplies all our needs and many wants.

Right on, Max. I am going to keep saying this until the mainstream media starts covering. The PSC hired an outside expert to figure out what will be the cheapest way to meet energy demand in this state. The expert came back and said that the proposed coal power plant is the most expensive option among the three options that he studied. The least expensive option is to put in an efficiency program and use the Union Station Power Plant in Union County to its fullest capacity. Currently the plant sits idle 5 months out of the year. We subsidized this plant partially, and it sits there idle. I"m an environmentalist, but I'm a fiscal conservative first and foremost. I'm mad that we already subsidized a plant, it sits idle 5 months out of the year, the PSC won't let it produce energy year around, SWEPCO wants to build a plant because it can't make money off of a plant owned by another company, and no one wants to be against it because being against $2 billion project sounds bad on campaign trail. Beebe wants to claim the project during the next election, Suskie voted for it because the attorney general didn't intervene, and the attorney general remains silent because he doesn't want to take the heat for being against a $2 billion dollar project. By the way, his job is to protect Arkansas ratepayers. Even with the volatility in natural gas prices, the PSC's expert came out with the same conclusion: $150 million needed to upgrade transmission lines for the existing Union Station Power Plant is cheaper than $1.6 billion needed to build the SWEPCO plant. Mike Beebe, Paul Suskie, Dustin McDaniel, shame on you for sticking us with a $1.6 billion project when a $150 million one is available. PSC, shame on you for blocking Integra, the company that owns Union Station Power Plant, from making its case in front of the commission. To me, it seems like someone in Beebe administration really wants SWEPCO to make money at the expense of Arkansas ratepayers. Time to check and see any of them own stocks in SWEPCO?

Zaoy,

Your informed commentary on this issue is refreshing. Good luck getting the corporate media to address it in a timely fashion. That's the larger issue. We discuss problems and solutions in the comments sections of blogs then, 3 weeks later a watered down version whispers by in print . And it usually involves an administration pretending to address a problem but it's really just window dressing for an uninformed public. (See the recent "moratorium" on land applied fluids) The press needs to be FOLLOWING UP CONSTANTLY. There is enormous injustice on a daily basis. The Arkansas press doesn't address it head on because it will take food from their plate. What's a body to do?

Do a little homework on which of your state representatives are benefiting from less than environmentally optimum technologies in the Fayettevile Shale. It would be laughable if I could stop crying.