The @NESpower disaster in Nashville reveals again that DEI is Deadly to Everyone Involved.
CEO Teresa Broyles-Aplin bragged that NES held 100+ trainings as part of their DEI agenda.
Now people are freezing without power for 5+ days. Maybe they should’ve focused on electricity instead of wasting valuable time on DEI? How has DEI affected their hiring in the last 8 years? I think we can all accurately guess.
And yes, this was a disaster. Other major power companies dealt with similar issues but they were prepared and they demonstrated just how incompetent NES is.
The legislature should strip Davidson County of their monopoly over NES where leftists hire and name leftists to power positions. Going forward every county they serve needs to be represented and the legislature should control NES, not the woke Nashville Democrats who named an environmentalist and a woke accountant to run a power company.
It’s not an accident that the one sore thumb in this photo is the county run entirely by Democrats.
Enough is enough. The people in charge there must be removed and replaced.
Source on the DEI story:
https://tennesseestar.com/news/letter-from-nashville-electric-service-ceo-shows-utility-company-held-102-dei-training-sessions-by-end-of-2024/tpappert/2026/01/29/?feed_id=16676&_unique_id=697c02806e1d6
https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/2017076127110480132
Ten Engineers Kidnapped from Canadian Silver Mine in Concordia, Sinaloa
Translated excerpt:
Ten employees of a silver mine in Concordia, Sinaloa, including engineers and security guards have gone missing since 23 January. Their families claim that they were kidnapped by an armed group.
According to local reporting, around 7:00 a.m., a group of armed men arrived at the La Clementina neighborhood where their employer was providing housing. The victims were forced aboard vehicles and have not been seen since.
The silver mine is leased by the Canadian mining firm Vizsla Silver Corp, who confirmed the kidnapping of their ten workers in a press release on their website yesterday. The company mention that “certain activities” have been suspended at the mine site.
The town of Concordia is 45 kilometers east of Mazatlan, a region that is currently violently contested by the Mayos and Chapitos factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Precious-metal mining operations are an attractive target for organized crime: they are asset-rich, geographically fixed, and often operated by foreign firms with weak internal security and senior leadership far removed from local realities. As silver prices sit at historic highs, criminal groups are viewing mine personnel, production, and logistics as leverage points for kidnapping, extortion, and theft.
Further, precious metals also offer dual utility for criminal networks, serving both as a high-value theft target and as an effective vehicle for money laundering.
In NES’ defense, slightly over 1/2 of NES customers were without power as this event unfolded. And they weren’t all in one are or path as would happen with a tornado - they were scattered all over the service territory of NES.
That’s not to say the the DEI horse hockey helped any, and most likely, it hurt. Probably a lot. The linemen can blow off that kind of stupid training as irrelevant, but middle and upper management types believe in it. They spent years at college having DEI force-fed to them as though it were beneficial.
They are reaping the rewards. Insufficient people in positions that can actually do something, slow to react. The operations people are or were overwhelmed, as you would be after an event like this tears up literally half of your distribution system, but having the people around and the know-how to deal with it is paramount for handling such a disaster.
I’ve followed this since electric power is my wheelhouse. They’re basically having to rebuild large swaths of their distribution system because it’s all been torn down by countless tree branches. Roads have to be made passable before line trucks can even get in to fix things. And if the customers are unlucky enough to have their distribution service in the back yard, that slows things down even more. Setting a pole and re-attaching wire along the road is a lot easier with a bucket truck than it is in a back yard where much of the work is manual and involves climbing poles and attaching things.
Perhaps, rather than government running NES at another level, it can be privatized. Southern Company, Louisville Gas & Electric, AEP, Duke Energy - there are numerous entities that would be able to get this mess fixed up.