TVA’s got Kentucky, six more to go
November 28, 2009
I hate to seem callous about this but have you seen the new “Pact” between the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the Tennessee Valley Authority? See http://www.tva.gov/news/releases/octdec09/moa_kentucky.pdf
I have read it all, carefully, and while it does not seem to favor Kentucky over any of the other six states in TVA’s territory, it does establish an extraordinary and legal cooperative agreement between the two and a framework for other states to follow.
TVA offers nothing substantial in exchange for Kentucky being obligated to submit reports and documents to TVA. Since there is no overriding statute in the TVA, it can ask for any data or reports it desires feigning co-operability.
Any other agency of the federal government would have to receive approval from the Office of Management and Budget to request reports or data from other sources, particularly in this case, with the TVA being the government suprapower.
The Memorandum basically states what TVA’s goals and plans are and gets Kentucky to agree to follow along. If there should be such an agreement between Kentucky, a sovereign state, and the United States government it should be from the point of view of the state of Kentucky, not from the state being dragged into what can be considered another federal mandate that surely will be more costly to the state of Kentucky.
This Memorandum of Agreement between TVA and Kentucky is another example of TVA seeking more control over its users of TVA electricity through a backdoor approach and the administration’s eventual nationalization of the electricity grid in America.
Ernest Norsworthy
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http://norsworthyopinion.com