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 →
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 →
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 →
Before, Onalaska’s scenic overlook, gazebo, and “Sunny” the famous Onalaska fish: After Xcel Energy’s chain saw workout to “relocate” its 69 kV line away from Hwy. 35: What do you think of this clearcutting for Xcel’s 69 kV line along … 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 →
Today a FERC order came out addressing a Petition for Limited Intervention Out-of-Time made by No CapX 2020 and United Citizens Action Network, filed on May 20, 2010, nearly 6 years ago. FERC Intervention-NoCapX & U-CANÂ FERC Docket ER09-1431 This … 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 →