Here we go again… Administrative Law Judge Kathleen Sheehy has file notice of a Scheduling Conference for the CapX 2020 Hampton-Alma/LaX transmission line routing permit docket — it’s the Monday after next. Monday, August 9 @ 1:30 p.m. Scheduling Conference … Continue reading →
The “Citizen Advisory Task Force Reports” for the CapX 2020 Hampton-Alma/LaX transmission line are out: Final Hampton-Northern Hills 345kV Transmission Line ATF Report Final North Rochester-Mississippi River 345kV Transmission Line ATF Report Early on in the Hampton-Alma/LaX Citizen Advisory Task … Continue reading →
Death threats to an Advisory Task Force member? Well, that’s different! I’ve just come back from the Cannon Falls Citizen Advisory Task Force for the CapX 2020 Hampton-Alma/LaCrosse transmission line route. Got there just a tad-bit late, and learned I … Continue reading →
You all know how disgusted I’ve been watching Citizen Advisory Task Forces devolve over the last decade, from a group that could meaningfully participate in a routing/siting proceeding to a neutered exercise in choreographed futility. In these proceedings, we’ve had … Continue reading →
Here’s their Response: CapX Response to NoCapX & U-CAN Motion to Suspend Where they actually say: Intervenors’ assertion that uncertainty about Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. (“MISOâ€) cost allocation methodologies somehow warrants delay of the Brookings Project routing proceeding … Continue reading →
The Minnesota DOT’s comments on the scope of the EIS for the CapX 2020 transmission line from Hampton to Alma/LaCrosse are posted. Mn DOT Scoping Comments May 20, 2010 And the Mississippi River Parkway Commission comments are posted too: Mississippi … Continue reading →
CapX 2020 transmission is in the news again: Power substation won’t eat up 20 acres of Holmen TIF district By ADAM BISSEN Special to the Tribune | Posted: Saturday, May 22, 2010 12:00 am HOLMEN – Holmen won’t lose 20 … Continue reading →
We’re tryin’ — the fun never sets… Today NoCapX 2020 and United Citizens Action Network filed a Motion in two routing dockets — the Brookings-Hampton (PUC Docket 08-1474) and Hampton-Alma (PUC Docket 09-1448) — to suspend the proceedings based on … Continue reading →
Recent coverage of the CapX 2020 transmission line EIS Scoping Meetings for the Hampton-Alma route (f/k/a Hampton-LaCrosse): CapX concerns at 52/19; comment until May 20 by Ken Haggerty Minnesota Office of Energy Security (MOES) public meetings on the CapX2020 high … Continue reading →