HEA General Manager Brad Janorschke&rsquo;s dismissive response to a spate of recent letters critical of HEA&rsquo;s misguided scheme to build a hydropower dam on the headwaters of the Kenai River was entirely characteristic of HEA&rsquo;s arrogant approach to the project. 
Mr. Janorschke slyly suggested the public should reserve comment on HEA&rsquo;s Grant Lake project until 2013, pending completion of studies because he understands (as do developers of the Pebble Mine and the Chuit River Coal Mine) that state and federal permitting processes exist for the sole purpose of authorizing resource development projects. HEA knows once studies are completed, and it can begin shepherding its project through the banal formalities of permitting and licensing, no amount of public opposition will prevent agency approvals to construct the dam. 