Time for a nap. Just filed Comments on the USDA RUS’s Environmental Assessment for Dairyland’s Q-1 D South transmission line. Here’s the EA: Q1-South_Environmental Assessment And here are the Comments I filed on behalf of No CapX 2020: No CapX … Continue reading →
Dairyland’s Q-1D South Environmental Assessment Comments are due July 1, 2016 — send to: USDA’s Dennis Rankin: dennis.rankin@wdc.usda.gov (I’d also cc DPC’s Chuck Thompson: cat@dairynet.com) By U.S. Mail: Dennis Rankin Environmental Protection Specialist USDA Rural Utilities Service 1400 Independence Avenue … Continue reading →
Dairyland Power Cooperative’s transmission through Onalaska and La Crosse is something to see… Dairyland Power Cooperative and USDA’s Rural Utilities Service has released the “Q-1D South” Environmental Assessment, open for Comment until July 1, 2016: Q1-South_Environmental Assessment (BIG FILE) And … Continue reading →
American Transmission Company (ATC) is holding a “Construction Meeting” about the Badger Coulee transmission project on April 14, an open house from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Town of Springfield Town Hall, 6157 County Highway P, Dane County, Wisconsin. … Continue reading →
A little birdie just sent this graphic photo. How’s this for a scenic view overlooking the Mississippi, at the Onalaska scenic overlook, no less?!?!?! Onalaska, what are you thinking? Did you consider the impact of this transmission line on the … Continue reading →
It was such a beautiful day today. Got a good share of garden work in, pulled and raked out the back 40″, well, half of it anyway, and cut down all the big milkweed stalks. We grabbed a sub and … 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 →
Apparently Judge Oxley did not like the Overland and No CapX 2020 Petition for Intervention in the rate case, late Friday the Order came out. It was denied, without prejudice. And yet interventions for Commercial Group, Suburban Rate Authority, and … Continue reading →
On the way to Stephanie Henriksen’s Memorial Service today, along Hwy. 19 on the west side of Cannon Falls, I saw the CapX 2020 foundations in the ground, and Cor-Ten steel poles lined up, poised for installation. Dog, how depressing… … Continue reading →