Duck and cover! Condemnation notices are being served for the CapX 2020 Brookings-Hampton transmission line in the Redwood Falls area. IF YOU ARE SERVED WITH A NOTICE OF CONDEMNATION GET LEGAL COUNSEL RIGHT AWAY. Do NOT sit in this, it … Continue reading →
American Transmission Company just got slapped upside the head by FERC in the Order that came out Friday. ATC claimed that IT was the owner of Badger-Coulee, the extension of CapX 2020 transmission from La Crosse to Madison (dashed line): … Continue reading →
Last week, Thursday to be precise, the “Buy the Farm” provision under the Power Plant Siting Act and Northern States Power’s challenge to compensation avenues available to landowners electing the “Buy the Farm“ option under Minn. Stat. 216E.12, Subd. 4 … Continue reading →
Tomorrow is THE day for the Minnesota side of the CapX 2020 Hampton-Rochester-LaCrosse transmission project. Meeting Notice – April 12, 2012 Notice the notice says “North Route Citizens Alliance?” Hello — that was Fargo, and this is Hampton-LaCrosse and it’s … Continue reading →
Here it is, MTEP 11, the Midwest Transmission Expansion Plan for 2011 (CLICK HERE, look on lower right), and it’s in the news too. The main report and some appendices: MTEP 11 – Draft Report MTEP Appendices A B & … Continue reading →
There has been a flood of public comments in response to, and because a comment period opened about, Xcel’s request for permit amendments. The lion’s share of them are regarding the short stretch of E-5 and AS-1, from landowners near … Continue reading →
Remember not too long ago that landowners challenged the utilities’ attempt to limit their compensation if they chose the Buy the Farm option? Buy the Farm is Minn. Stat. 216E.12, Subd. 4: Subd. 4. Contiguous land. When private real property … Continue reading →
Virgil Fuchs has been around this powerline concept a time or too. But it now seems that one of the Permit Amendments that Xcel is requesting for the CapX 2020 Fargo-St. Cloud route would run right over Virgil Fuchs’ land … Continue reading →
There’s also been some things happening on the Fargo route. The decision came down some time ago, June 23, 2011, with some additional time for Reconsideration because the state was shut down. Route changes first. Xcel filed a HUGE packet … Continue reading →
The new “need” report is out, Xcel Energy filed it yesterday, in WISCONSIN, and it’s a doozy, reverse engineering, shifting nuts in the shell game, and pinning the tail on the moving donkey.. Xcel Supplemental Need Study – August 2011 … Continue reading →