Tag Archives: NoCapX 2020
Plainview yesterday, Pine Island today!
For a copy of the application call Xcel at 800-238-7968 or email lacrosseinfo@capx2020.com You really need an application to deal with this. Today’s CapX 2020 EIS Scoping Meeting (not hearing) sponsored by Commerce/MOES is in Pine Island: May 5, 2010 … Continue reading →
From Bly’s blog – Gov. SIGNS eminent domain bill
Maybe Pawlenty knew the revolution waiting if he did not sign. BE SURE TO LET THOSE LEGISLATORS WHO SUPPORTED IT KNOW HOW MUCH YOU APPRECIATE THIS BILL.  Here’s the scoop plagiarized direct from David Bly: Governor signs eminent domain law … Continue reading →
Scoping meetings start TODAY!
Above – That’s the CapX 2020 Hampton to Alma line as proposed. Today is the start of the CapX 2020 transmission project’s “Hampton-Alma” line scoping meetings. What are “scoping meetings” for? The purpose is to get comments from US THE … Continue reading →
Greetings from Plainview!
Today is the first meeting of the CapX 2020 North Rochester-Rivercrossing Citizen Advisory Task Force. Thanks to Xcel’s Grant Stevenson for guidance on the AC!!! What would we do without electricity!!!! And even better, City of Plainview has wireless! The … Continue reading →
CapX Hampton-Alma(LaX) EIS Scoping Meetings
Members have been appointed to the Citizens Advisory Task Force CapX 2020 transmission line from Hampton to Alma (f/k/a LaCrosse). Rumor has it that there are NO CITIZENS on the CITIZENS Advisory Task Force. SAY WHAT?!?!?! More to follow on … Continue reading →
STrib at it again…
WTF?? The STrib does it again. For the ~240 mile CapX 2020 transmission line from Brookings to Hampton, the story is framed as a NIMBY victory for about 2 miles of landowners who are getting their way, and nothing at … Continue reading →
Now they say “Disregard” yesterday’s filing?
Remember yesterday’s Recommendation from ALJ Luis on the CapX 2020 Brookings-Hampton transmission line? Now things get stranger… the following email arrived this morning: The report released on 4/22/10 is incomplete and a Findings of Fact, Conclusions and Recommendation will be … Continue reading →
ALJ Recommendation on Brookings is OUT!
When it rains, it pours! Just a couple of hours ago, we got the New Jersey BPU decision on the Susquehanna-Roseland transmission line. Now the CapX 2020 Brookings-Hampton Route Recommendation comes out. eService says that it’s been filed, but for … Continue reading →
Rochester area doesn’t NEED CapX
Remember all the hype about Rochester, home of the Mayo Clinic, freezing in the dark on a respirator without a job? A little birdie sent me this: Rochester Public Utilities 2009 Electric System Engineering & Operations Report On p. 18 … Continue reading →