CapX 2020 at Highway 61 south of Wabasha Monday, they had their CapX 2020 Love Fest at the Hampton substation, and I didn’t even get an engraved invitation. It’s a depressing point in time — 12 years on this project … Continue reading →
It’s out, the report from U of M Humphrey School of Public Affairs about CapX 2020, headlining it as a “Model for addressing climate change.“ Transmission Planning and CapX 2020: Building Trust to Build Regional Transmission Systems Oh, please, this … 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 →
This Thursday, the PUC will be taking my the NoCapX 2020 Complaint against Barr Engineering of Conflict of Interest… again. CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO TUNE IN LIVE! PUC staff recommendation is “no jurisdiction” and not action by PUC other … Continue reading →
Transmission going up in SW Minnesota (Fair Use – from mpr.org) As Xcel tries to build its CapX 2020 wonderland, and as people are being served with Petitions for condemnation of their land for easements for this transmission buildout, people … Continue reading →
Apparently Great River Energy and Xcel Energy are outlooking for money. Gee, I wonder why? I remember the snorts and hoots that broke out in the room way back during the CapX Certificate of Need hearing when they admitted to … Continue reading →
There was a very strange report from North Dakota – somewhere on the CapX 2020 Fargo-St. Cloud road show last week, they were asked about the permitting status of that line in North Dakota, and we got some blather that … Continue reading →
It looks like a deal is in the works to get the CapX 2020 Bemidji-Grand Rapids transmission line through the Leech Lake Reservation: Documents outline power line talks between Leech Lake, utility officials Posted: 5:21 pm Thu, August 26, 2010 … Continue reading →
Seems the ALJ doesn’t think it’s a problem to have the Final EIS come in and that the public not be able to comment on it. Seems the ALJ doesn’t acknowledge that in the Brookings case the record was expressly … Continue reading →
Today NoCapX 2020 and United Citizen Action Network have filed a Motion to Intervene in the CapX Bemidji-Grand Rapids case. Why? Because the comments of the EPA show that there are serious problems with the EIS and that issues raised … Continue reading →