Rocky Mountain Power recently held an open house to announce plans and answer questions regarding its new Beck Street Transmissions Project. The representatives were friendly, cordial, upbeat. They did their best to explain Rocky Mountain’s intent to service the growing needs of Marathon Petroleum Corporation, by the refineries in north Salt Lake, which, they say, will benefit everyone.
Rocky Mountain’s open house was not a public hearing. It was the announcement of a fait accompli. In fact, for those of us most impacted by Rocky Mountain’s plan, the open house was the first news we’d ever heard about this new, major intrusion into one of the city’s vulnerable, struggling neighborhoods.