“If this site is that critical, ... then I suggest they provide the money to make sure the power supplies to the two pipelines will not be affected by the next hurricane. If this is a national issue, let's fix it now so that we can take care of the needs of the people in the Pine Belt.”
“I reluctantly agreed to pull half our transmission line crews off other projects and made getting the transmission lines to the Collins substations a priority,”
“It was my decision to balance what was most important to people in South Mississippi with this all-of-a-sudden national crisis of not enough gas or diesel fuel,”
“You have to know the importance of this operation with three cabinet members coming to the site. If this site is that critical, then I suggest they provide the money to make sure the power supplies to the two pipelines will not be affected by the next hurricane.”
