Executive Vice President of Business Operations, Quanta
Search every verified Derrick Jensen interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Derrick Jensen, an author and environmental activist, discussed the Gateway South transmission line project in a November 2025 Quanta Services video. He described it as a 425-mile, 500 KV line from Wyoming to central Utah, calling it "hands down the most challenging job I've been a part of." Jensen noted that the project involved nearly 21 operating units, encountered easement issues and delays from the Bureau of Land Management, and required helicopter access for 27 roadless sites. He stated that the line was energized three weeks prior to the video and that the experience "laid the groundwork for our next projects." In earlier appearances from 2024 and 2023, Jensen argued that civilization is "inherently unsustainable" and that the environmental movement has shifted from protecting wild places to "sustaining this destructive culture a little bit longer." He said that "the only level of technology that has ever been sustainable is the Stone Age" and that "the dominant culture will continue to grind away until it collapses under the weight of its own ecological destructiveness." Jensen also criticized marijuana legalization, stating it has been "a disaster for marijuana culture and for communities in the Emerald Triangle," and argued that it represents "a transfer of wealth from family farmers to governments and to those who are rich enough to enter the market."
“This was the beginning of the new future for how we're going to build these banker projects — kind of the pioneers of the new Quanta way. The silos started coming down and pulling everybody together.”
“We didn't get the contract signed until 2022, right before the Ukraine war started, which interrupted our steel supply; work had to start that year, so it was a rush to get things going.”
“It's not just let's go out and build a line from Wyoming to Utah — we had nearly 21 operating units on this project trying to identify where we can work, where we can't work. You've got a lot of moving parts, a lot of communication that takes place; hands down the most challenging job I've been a part of.”
“As soon as it started in June, we ended up having some easement issues and also the BLM not approving access to the rideway.”
If you’d like to gain access to early release of full, ad-free episodes and support the podcast, consider becoming part of the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewilderness. We are an independent production and rely on the support of listeners like you. Make a one-time contribution to http://paypal.me/brianjamessoul On this episode I speak with writer, ecophilosopher and activist Derrick Jensen. True to our Sagittarian natures, we have a wide-ranging conversation that covers a lot of ground, including personal stories of childhood trauma, healing, activism and the journey toward realizing you…
In this episode, Stan Berteloot continues to explore how leading American collapsologists thinkers conceive of the collapse of our Western civilization. Since the 1990s, scholars have been predicting that the end of the Cold War and the struggle between capitalism/communism will also bring about “the end of history.” But, are these worries founded? What are we to make of the last 30 years? After previous episodes with John-Michael Greer (https://pod.fo/e/a0491) and Richard Heinberg (https://pod.fo/e/ac1c3) , Stan sat down with Derrick Jensen, an American author, ecophilosopher (https:…
This is the full interview with author Derrick Jensen filmed for the 2023 documentary "Eden's Last Chance" which is now available on Apple TV, Amazon, Vudu and Vimeo Watch Eden's Last Chance on: APPLE TV: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/edens-l... AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Edens-Last-Cha... VUDU: https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/d... VIMEO: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/edenslastc... VISIT THE OFFICAL WEBSITE AT: https://www.edenslastchance.com/ SYNOPSIS: If this is the end of the world, then what do we do? Galvanized by scientists' dire warnings, Joshua Wright dropped out of high scho…
Derrick Jensen's new book is called, Marijuana: A Love Story. It details his wild romance with this oft misunderstood plant teacher ...
In his latest book "Bright Green Lies" he wrote with Max Wilbert and Keith Lierre, the brilliant Derrick Jensen dismantles the illusion of 'green' technology in breathtaking, comprehensive detail. He reveals a fantasy that must perish if there is to be any hope of preserving what remains of life on Earth. In this interview we speak to this as well as exploring his perspective on facing the grief inherent in his deep love of the natural world.
March 16th, 2021 This session is a part of the "Let Us Maybe Make the Meta-Crisis Our Superordinate Goal Symposium" Derrick Jensen returns to The Stoa, along with Lierre Keith and Max Wilber, the co-authors of his new book: Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It (Politics of the Living) "Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the imp…
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September 21, 2020 Derrick Jensen visits The Stoa for a conversation with Peter Limberg, followed by a Q&A. "Derrick Jensen (born December 19, 1960) is an American author, ecophilosopher, radical environmentalist, and anti-civilization advocate. According to Democracy Now!, Jensen "has been called the poet-philosopher of the ecological movement." more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick... The title of this talk comes from this quote: “at some point in his career, everybody who loves Derrick Jensen's work is going to hate him, because he refuses to follow any ideological lines, and takes…
Note: The audio starts around 12:45. What happened? Read here: https://deepgreenresistance.blogspot.... Derrick Jensen spoke live in Eugene, OR on March 4th. Tune in here to watch the recording. "You should not believe everything you read. You should learn to be more clinical. You should ask the obvious questions like "how" and "why" and you should pay attention to how easy it is to wantonly harm a person with baseless accusations and the mob mentality that follows. Not to do those things makes you culpable. Makes you dangerous. Makes you despicable." Dominique Christina MORE FROM DEEP GRE…
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