Residents are concerned about proposed high voltage lines
The subject of FPL's proposed high voltage power lines came up at a Merchant's Meeting and then again at a Village Council meeting. I didn't quite understand it then, but Eye on Miami has a great explanation today.
FPL wants to have "100-foot towers carrying 230-KV high-voltage power lines north from Turkey Point to Miami and beyond is right up South Dixie Highway right alongside the Metrorail." There is a meeting in South Miami on March 2.
You can get Eye on Miami's perspective and explanation here.
FPL wants to have "100-foot towers carrying 230-KV high-voltage power lines north from Turkey Point to Miami and beyond is right up South Dixie Highway right alongside the Metrorail." There is a meeting in South Miami on March 2.
You can get Eye on Miami's perspective and explanation here.
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Why do they not just put these under ground?? Expensive, sure, but then again there are plenty of City projects with big price tags and very little community return on investment. How about instead of a tax paid stadium we use the tax money and put all City of Miami power cables under ground. Imagine how nice the city would look.
I was part of a survey group by FPL @ 2 years ago regarding these. I said no to vereything especialy the fact of taking over property via eminent domain for this horrible idea. Everyone should get involved in this!
Why overhead lines? Because it's cheaper and FPL is long since been a public utility and is now a NYSE-listed private corporation, which has to pass along profits to its shareholders. High-voltage transmission lines cost lots per mile and every mile they can shave off by running it right up US-1 past our homes and businesses they get to pass along to the shareholders in dividends! Oh yeah, while the rest of us suffered ... check out FPL's record profits for 2008! We're gettin' screwed here and it's time to say we're not gonna take it anymore!
I forgot in the survey they also asked how we would feel about the cost passed on to the customers? Of course what do you think everyone said Sure come f___ us up the a__ some more!
Anyway this is an issue everyone should get fired up about because this may happen.
While it's generally true that the laws of physics don't seem to apply in Coconut Grove, that fact is that burying a 230,000 volt transmission line is a very different proposition from the buried line powering that 110 volt streetlight down the block. In fact, should one of those high voltage puppies ever get buried along South Dixie, you would probably want to avoid walking anywhere near the road whenever it rains.
Unbelievable. Slowly FPL is destroying this city. First it was crazy tree trimming in the Grove (and all over Miami) that destroyed the tree canopy. That has done horrible damage (have you seen Main Highway recently?). Now these power lines. I wouldn't be surprised if the Grove looked like the western neighborhoods of Miami in a few years. Too sad.
The poles for these lines will dwarf the MetroRail tracks, and I don't care what the FPL reps say, I believe there is truth to the theory that living nearhigh voltage lines is a health risk. This issue is hugely important and will be decided by State regulators. We need to make our opinions heard.
...but what is the alternative?
the reason they are building the power lines is because of our dependence on FPL, america needs to change the way it thinks. with passage of the stimulus bill there has never been a more inepensive time to go solar and get off the grid ($20 billion in solar rebates). stop buying juice from FPL and they won't expand.
"Don't cut the trees, but it's all FPL's fault when they affect my power." "Pay 50 times more to bury my electrical lines in corrosive coral rock and water, but don't charge ME for it." I don't find these arguments logical.
FPL is regulated by the PSC, appointed by our Governor and confirmed by our Senate... good places to focus our energy instead of moaning about conspiracy theories and profits. You wanna really give em the finger? Open your windows, toss the appliances, cover your roof with solar panels, and throw up a few windmills in your backyard.
You don't like FPL? Get involved! Sign one or all of the three petitions out there circulating right now:
* http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-florida-power-light-monopoly
* http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/STOPFPL/
* http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/NoRiverofGas/
And come to the public on the high-voltage lines:
Monday, March 2nd, 2009 @ 7pm
South Miami City Commission Chambers
South Miami City Hall
6130 Sunset Drive (1 block west of US-1)
South Miami, FL 33143
FPL has notified all residents adjacent to the proposed powerlines. They had an event at the Boys & Girls Club on Dixie & 32nd Avenue, as well as other central locations. Anyone with comments was invited to attend and review the Master Plan. They served great cookies, too!
yeah, great cookies! and I'm sure the FPL PR (propaganda) machine was in full swing, giving residents no real idea of what those poles look like ... did you see the photos at Eye on Miami! That's what they put up in North Miami when residents didn't protest ... is that what you want running up and down US-1?? Take a good look at the photos in yesterday's post at: http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/
Opening your windows is not going to keep these huge poles off our streets cause they’re not for supplying electricity to people in Miami-Dade they’re to facilitate the expansion of FPL’s network in Central & Northern Florida & beyond so their shareholders get higher dividends and FPL is willing to disfigure OUR neighborhoods to this.
STOP THEM! Come to the meeting in South Miami City Hall, Monday,March 2, 7pm
The high voltage transmission lines will negatively impact the value of adjacent properties while FPL's profit will increase. Get out and let everybody hear what you think.
Everybody start buying panels, and go solar. In this area, you will on a 2000 square foot or better house you will produce significant excess power, and by law, FPL has to buy back your excess power (though at a significantly lower rate than they charge for the same power - ask your state legislators about that BS).
We need to crush this issue. Where are all of our Mayoral candidates on this issue? Spearheading a campaign against this seems like a good way for someone to earn our trust and appreciation.
Think this is about anything other than profits for FPL? Take a look at their financials online at Yahoo! Finance here: http://tinyurl.com/dyb7za ... share price, up and up and up since 1985. Why? whydayathink??? They just keep building up and out, with nuclear and other fossil-fuel-fired plants, ruining our skyline with these ugly high-voltage lines and then soaking us on our electricity bills, month after month, year after year. And passing the corporate profits on to their investors, not Joe or Jane public, but some fund manager handling millions for somebody you can bet doesn't live right here in Miami-Dade County!!!
Many, many, many years ago, there was a billboard sign in Miami with red and white stripes, a bald eagle, fancy gold lettering, stars, and the message:
"Free Enterprise Makes America Great"
At the bottom, in small letters, "Florida Power & Light Company."
I've always wished I had taken a photo of that billboard.
The City of South Miami (2 sq miles) appears to be the disproportional focus of a large no. of these proposed transmission line routes? Can someone explain why?
This is not a South Miami issue. This effects everybody. Pinecrest already voiced where they are standing. Coral Gables and Coconut Grove need to step up.
Do we still need these power plants anyway. The big building boom of building is over for a long time!
Dittos to last comment ... what we need here is a coalition. This is not only any single community -- these are in FPL's own description, "Turkey Point nuclear reactor 6 & 7 transmission lines." These reactors have not even been built yet and are not needed, as power consumption is way down in Florida due to the recession and as we move to renewables in the US of A, nuclear will be les and less viable of an option. This should be a coalition movement -- environmentalists, responsible urban planners, cities and neighbors throughout Miami-Dade County and South Florida united to stop these greedy projects from FPL that are ruining the environment and our communities.
Didn't say that the proposed transmission lines were just a City of South Miami (CSM) issue. What I said was that CSM appears to be the focus of several proposed transmission line projects. First we were informed of the Davis to Miami/US 1 project and weeks later CSM residents were informed by FPL of a completely separate transmission line project. Additionally it appears that existing transmission line routes running along SW 62 Ave and through the CSM's CRA district are also being upgraded to possibly support a higher voltage transmission line.
Why is that African-American communities like the one in South Miami and up in North Miami always get shafted by unsightly FPL high-voltage lines?
Up on the Biscayne corridor, the better-heeled residents of Miami Shores gathered thousands of names on petitions and the city commission passed a resolution in 2006 opposing FPL lines through their community and what happened? FPL just moved the lines to another route right through North Miami, predominantly African-American and where the citizens weren't as well organized around the issue didn't put up enough resistance.
The gall of the politicians -- going into these neighbhorhoods and declaring them "blighted" and targets for "community redevelopment" when so much of the "blight" comes from ugly FPL high-voltage lines that the politicians support!!! They and all the Miami-Dade residents from other communities that let this happen should be ashamed!!!
We need everyone to contact all of the legislators in Tallahassee and tell them to vote yes for HB 1315.
We need the florida senators to vote yes on SB 2466. These items will give municipalities more say so when FPL tries to run their lines through their cities.
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