That was Charlie the “faciliator” shussssshing me yesterday at the “Citizen Advisory Task Force” meeting in Plainview. Again… … and I said I would not leave, he again asked me to leave, and I wrote down Alan’s phone number on … 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 →
Hot off the press, more responses to my Data Practices Act request about Citizen Advisory Task Forces. So, starting from the beginning, here are the requests I’d sent: Task Force Data Practices Act – 1 Task Force Data Practices Act … Continue reading →
TOO CLOSE!!! Slapped together a Comment and Request for Hearing just now, whew, in under the wire, and just barely, in the CapX 2020 transmission Certificate of Need docket: NoCapX & U-CAN Comment and Request for Hearing MOES had filed … Continue reading →
Today NoCapX 2020 and United Citizen Action Network filed a Motion for Order to Show Cause, to push the PUC to require compliance with their Order way back when that the CapX 2020 Applicants disclose, which they have not done! … Continue reading →
Oh, great, look at this, “THE MEETINGS HAD ALREADY TAKEN PLACE AT THE TIME THE EMAIL WAS SENT.” (EMPHASIS ADDED). It’s in the Cannon Falls Beacon: Township Concerns about CapX2020 Debbie Stark, township clerk, received an email about a task … 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 →
NoCapX 2020 and United Citizen Action Network have filed Comments in the Xcel CapX 2020 rate recovery docket, well, really, it’s Xcel’s docket, and they’re claiming rate recovery, ENTITLEMENT to rate recovery, for the CapX projects. Meanwhile, they’ve not complied … Continue reading →
In the Marshall Independent today: CapX Economically Driven And hot off the press, i.e., 22 minutes ago, in the STrib — a report on the delay of the Brookings line. GOOD, that’s a start, but once again, they only report … Continue reading →
Here we are, long after the CapX 2020 Brookings transmission routing docket has been closed, and what do we see as of yesterday? Piles and piles of paper filed by CapX Applicants. The first one filed is odd pages only, … Continue reading →