Next week, the Xcel Energy rate case public hearings are in St. Cloud and Red Wing, both in areas hard hit by CapX 2020. Southern Minnesota was also hit with the ITC MN/IA project, which is the northern part of … Continue reading →
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 →
WOW… can you believe?? It’s not just me, it’s not just denial of Intervention of No CapX 2020.  See 20162-118122-01_Denial2_Overland-NoCapX Intervention. Intervention as a party in this Rate Case is only open to those who sold out to Xcel Energy … 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 →
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 →
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 →