Farmers Against Power Poles

[grefer]

We had ours buried many years back. I am glad to have them gone but we have never had so many outages. I bought a generator large enough to keep us from freezing in the winter and have used it many times but fortunately only once in the winter. I don't know what the cause is but it's very frustrating and worrisome in the winter.

[biglentil]

Saskpower spent something like a billion on carbon capture tech while the rest of the grid is in tatters. Why not invest in in a dozen crews with vibratory plows?

[bucket]

Big lentil

You are just talking crazy. Stop it.

Sarcasm intended. Lol.

[bucket]

Biglentil

Sorry that's an infrastructure - why invest in it? Better to have lower taxes than a safe and reliable power grid.


Better to spend on carbon capture that even if canada captured 100 percent of its carbon it wouldn't make a difference to the world levels.

[sumdumguy]

Does anyone know how to get the wages of CEO's and management at the crowns?

[farmaholic]

grefer. When they plowed our powerlines in they only went as far as our yard, no one else is on this "loop". A little more than a mile and a half off the three phase. We have basically no trouble other than when the three phase goes off.

Come to think of it I'm luckier than I first thought. They would have had to bore both the highway and the railway tracks to service just us with this line burial!!!

[westernvicki]

So where's SARM on this one in general and in particular the strategically placement of just in off the roadway nightmare, which was told you could PAY quite handsomely if you wanted them moved.

[AllisWD45]

True story on a parcel of land i own.Overhead power to old abandoned yard. Previous owner many years ago set 6 new 2000 steel bins near this line and cried to Sask Power and they buried almost half mile for him because of bin hazard.Still one of the few underground lines in area.
I grew up an hour away from here and the homestead got power in 1959. Most of this line is still there with original posts and wire.

[Rareearth]

Sask power has a massive liability risk. They have randomly placed structures on there right of ways and know of the increasing evening traffic around these structures. Vary dangerous, they should install reflectors ASAP.

[wmoebis]

As I understand it and can recollect, the power lines were place away from the roadways because of safety concerns, many people were getting hurt when hit them with cars and when there was a pole problem from collision or lightning, live lines would fall onto roadway increasing the risk of electrocution. Today roads in general are much better, more gravel, we have better cars and tires that keep use all around safer. Many of you have never driven a rear wheel drive 1/2 ton on Coop milemaker Bias ply tires on roads with no gravel
Telephone lines were put on the edge of roadways for couple reasons, they had to be accessible to linemen in adverse weather (no snow machines in those days) as there were many line problems. They also felt the risk was lower as telephone lines didn't carry high voltage and was less dangerous if the fell on roadway.

The telephone lines were put underground because the cost of line maintenance was getting too high and telephone lines were not typically as high as power and as equipment go bigger every roadway and approach would have t be raised.

We do have a serious problem do to the aging of the infrastructure. I am glad we didn't pay to change structure 10 to 15 years ago, we would have paid to run power into a lot of yards that are now vacant. like we did with telephone, gas and water. How do we recoup those costs once vacated, how do we justify paying to run 10 or 15 miles of underground wire to serve 1 customer who may or may not be there in ten years?