{"id":15086,"date":"2013-07-11T10:51:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T15:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=15086"},"modified":"2013-07-11T10:53:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T15:53:27","slug":"grda-yields-to-fallin-on-plant-upgrades-during-confrontational-board-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/07\/11\/grda-yields-to-fallin-on-plant-upgrades-during-confrontational-board-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"GRDA Yields to Fallin on Plant Upgrades During Confrontational Board Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tougher environmental standards prompted the Grand River Dam Authority, a state-owned electric utility, to announce plans to spend $80 million to upgrades its existing coal power plants, and $300 million do build a new natural gas power plant.<\/p><p><a title=\"StateImpact Link\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/07\/09\/tension-grows-as-governors-office-tries-to-stop-grda-vote-on-plant-upgrades\/\" target=\"_blank\">StateImpact reported<\/a> that Gov. Mary Fallin&#8217;s administration was trying to stop a scheduled vote on the plans at Wednesday&#8217;s GRDA board meeting.<\/p><p>And it did just that, as the\u00a0<em>Tulsa World&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em><a title=\"Tulsa World Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tulsaworld.com\/article.aspx\/GRDA_delays_action_on_new_generating_plant\/20130710_504_0_VINITA674575?subj=1\" target=\"_blank\">Randy Krehbiel reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Grand River Dam Authority directors avoided open defiance of Gov. Mary Fallin by withdrawing from Wednesday&#8217;s board agenda consideration of a $300 million generating plant opposed by the governor.<\/p><p>The meeting was not without some post-July 4 fireworks, however.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more-->But the fireworks didn&#8217;t come from GRDA board members. It was State Rep. Doug Cox, R-Grove, \u00a0flinging the insults.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We all like to bad mouth Washington, D.C. We all like to bad mouth the president, Barack Obama,&#8221; said Cox. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got a little of D.C. here. We have a governor circumventing the Legislature with executive orders.&#8221;<\/p><p>Cox said he has asked a &#8220;neighbor&#8221; not to refer to the governor as &#8220;Mary Hussein Fallin.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Fallin&#8217;s representative at the meeting, Finance Secretary Preston Doerflinger, says the governor will meet with the GRDA&#8217;s chief executive director next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StateImpact reported that Gov. Mary Fallin&#8217;s administration was trying to stop a scheduled vote on the plans at Wednesday&#8217;s GRDA board meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490,491],"tags":[518,545],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15086"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15102,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15086\/revisions\/15102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}