http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/files/grantees/eaglenet_infrastructure_amendment4_suspendltr.pdf
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/EAGLENet-NTIA-Grant-SUSPENDED-5-4372035.S.193530897?view=&gid=4372035&type=member&item=193530897 On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Fred Goldstein <[email protected]> wrote: > At 12/6/2012 06:56 PM, Ryan Ghering wrote: >>probably will be tomorrow.. I got a call from my Boss who got a call >>from Greg Brophy who got a call from Cory Gardner.. >>Then I found the tweets.. >> >>Cory's tweet >>Rep. Cory Gardner @repcorygardner >> >>BREAKING: Grant suspended for govt funded broadband provider EAGLE-Net >>due to "ongoing concerns" relating to compliance with grant rules > > The suspension letter was posted on the ntia web site. However, that > site is not very reliable, and doesn't seem to be up now. A copy was > downloaded by the lawyer who has been leading the opposition to ENA > (I've been helping him out a bit myself) and he sent it to me. > > ENA's grant was suspended on (theoretically) environmental > grounds. By not building where they had originally proposed, and by > not doing full environmental review of the actual revised routes that > they were building, they were in violation of the grant. So they are > frozen. They can get permission to start building again if they can > complete the various requirements (quite a few, actually) that they > are not in compliance with. Of course the easiest way to do that > would be to go back to the originally-approved plan. You know, the > one whose maps were "redacted" in the original public form of the > application by having a black box layer placed atop them in the > multi-layered PDF... gee that isn't hard to remove in OpenOffice, is it? > :-) > >>On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Sean Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: >> > is there a news article or something??? >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Ryan Ghering <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> SenatorBrophy @SenatorBrophy >> >> >> >> Eagle-Net grant pulled. Stimulus boon-doogle that hurt businesses in >> >> rural Colorado reigned in. Damage was already done, recovery starts. >> >> >> >> Word is the CEO of Eagle-Net has also resigned!!! >> >> >> >> BEST NEWS EVER!!! > > -- > Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com > ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ > +1 617 795 2701 > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- Ryan Ghering Network Operations - Plains.Net Office: 970-848-0475 - Cell: 970-630-1879 _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
