My husband is a journeyman lineman. A couple of years ago he worked on a job in Lake Isabella, Ca. One of the poles they replaced had been in “awaiting approval” status with environmental hacks for over 2 years...and that was just to put the new pole in the same hole the old one came out of. It takes about 4 years to get approval to dig a new hole.
It makes you wonder how much money is wasted doesn’t it ?
How many bureacrats on both the government and power company sides wasted how many hours in the review and regulatory process ?
Costs passed along to taxpayers and electric customers.