OPINION: 'We aren’t going to agree on the best path forward, but we can eventually agree on a better path forward. Permitting reform is a good place for us to begin to do that,' writes Mike Carran of the Citizens…
For years, we have comforted ourselves with the belief that climate change must be addressed, but time to do so is plentiful. Water shortages in the West, flooding in the Midwest, tornadoes where they were unknown, and massive human migration belie that belief.
Moving Midwestern wind energy and Southwest solar energy will require vast new transmission lines, a task that will require an estimated three decades and 1 million miles of new transmission lines. The money to do this has been appropriated. The permission to do it has not. That permission will be subject to slow-moving review by federal, regional, state, and local authorities. We simply don’t have time.
Getting a wind farm through the permitting process can require four to six years, and that’s for a project that is in one place. Moving electricity from a wind farm in Iowa to Arizona would require crossing multiple authorities and would require environmental impact statements whose writing requires an average of 600 pages of length and four and a half years of analysis. This will be followed by a set of mitigation measures which, if implemented, will dramatically increase costs.
Sen. Joe Manchin introduced permitting reform in the last Congress. While that failed, talks are now underway to introduce it again. If passed, Manchin’s bill would cap the page length of environmental review reports and the time to write them to two years. Both political parties understand that this reform is critical, but both are deeply suspicious of the other.
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