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In Texas, the problem lies in getting power from the proposed site in the Panhandle to a distribution system, Pickens said in an interview with The Associated Press in New York. He'd hoped to build his own transmission lines but he said there were technical problems.

That's it? That's the whole reason they're pulling the plug on this $12 billion dollar project? Of all the half-ass schemes I've ever heard of...