Slow evening at Rural Utilities Service’s (RUS) scoping meeting for the Environmental Impact Statement for the Cardinal – Hickory Creek transmission project. RUS is involved because Dairyland Power Cooperative (DPC) plans to hold a 9% undivided interest in the project, … Continue reading →
WOW… can you believe?? It’s not just me, it’s not just denial of Intervention of No CapX 2020.  See 20162-118122-01_Denial2_Overland-NoCapX Intervention. Intervention as a party in this Rate Case is only open to those who sold out to Xcel Energy … Continue reading →
Tomorrow it’s a meeting or two about a pipeline, but that’s not all… it’s about a gas plant at the beginning of this pipeline route! First the pipeline — Minnesota Energy Resources Corporation is the applicant, and it’s PUC Docket … Continue reading →
Remember Xcel’s CapX 2020 peak demand projections of 2.49% annual increase? How wrong can they be? And how unjustified was their basis for a Certificate of Need for CapX 2020? And how are they held accountable for those gross misrepresentations? … Continue reading →
I haven’t given out one of these in a long time, but here we go, the Horse’s Ass Award to Xcel Energy and Office of Administrative Hearings, based on the bias and double standards for participation and obstructions to intervention … Continue reading →
Well, we all knew that… but in the LaX Tribune: Former cabinet members: Top Walker aide [Mike Huebsch, now on PSC] ordered them to avoid state email, phones. And this guy now sits as one of three Commissioners on the … Continue reading →
AS you scroll down, keep in mind the tremendous job that the City of Onalaska did presenting their case in the Badger Coulee transmission docket (go HERE and search for docket 05-CE-142, and look for Onalaska filings). Grace – Direct … Continue reading →
SENT! On behalf of No CapX 2020 I sent the following Comments: No CapX 2020_Q-1D South_Comment_9-25-2015 I’ve asked how many times for more information, nada, still nothing. N-O-T-H-I-N-G! Of particular note is this handy-dandy chart that Bruce McKay had put … Continue reading →
I’m having one of those “D’OH!” moments… Remember at the tail end of the ITC case where there was suddenly a claim that the Geronimo wind project in SW Minnesota wouldn’t go on line without the ITC MVP 3 transmission … Continue reading →
YES, another Buy the Farm win, just released today! OPA131474-030415 Check it out, read the decision. On MPR: Supreme Court backs farmers in CapX 2020 powerline fight On KSTP: State Supreme Court Rules Against Utility Companies in Farmland Dispute For … Continue reading →