A little catching up to do. I got a new camera out in Washington, and started filling it up, but then when I got back I couldn’t find the USB cord, and once I did, I didn’t hide it and … Continue reading →
October 18th is a big day. Fargo DEIS Comments are due and Brookings routing comments are due. Send Brookings Routing Comments by 4:30 p.m. on October 18 to: capx.oah@state.mn.us or directly to Judge Luis at: Judge Richard Luis Brookings Docket … Continue reading →
There was a very strange report from North Dakota – somewhere on the CapX 2020 Fargo-St. Cloud road show last week, they were asked about the permitting status of that line in North Dakota, and we got some blather that … Continue reading →
Long day – it was the CapX 2020 public hearings in LeSueur and Arlington. Here’s rough notes, lots of errors, names are wrong, and several times I missed a lot: October 4 – LeSueur and Arlington The highlight of the … Continue reading →
It’s on us already — NEXT WEEK — the Hearing for the Brookings Route remand. Did I really not post this? AAAAAARGH! Here’s the Notice: MOES Notice of Public Hearings Public Hearings are scheduled for: MONDAY October 4, 2010 (Monday) … Continue reading →
Update on the Subpoena Requests filed by NoCapX 2020 and United Citizens Action Network in the Brookings-Hampton remand docket (08-1474). There’s been a flurry of activity. First, yesterday morning I had a chat with Dave Seykora, who noted that he … Continue reading →
The turnout has been disappointing thus far for the DEIS meetings (not hearings!) being held this week along the Fargo-St. Cloud CapX 2020 route.  But tonight’s crowd is bigger, YEAAAAA… For those wondering where those big maps are that they’re … Continue reading →
Catching up from a week “off” — Thursday and Friday, we exchanged Witness and Exhibit Lists for the upcoming hearings on the Brookings remand in early October. Here they are: CapX Applicants’ Witness & Exhibit List NoCapX & U-CAN Witness … Continue reading →
Here it is, note that the action starts way out in 2011. Mark the important days on your calendar: First Prehearing Order – CapX Hampton-LaX(Alma) What’s most disturbing is that in this, there is no connection of the USDA’s Rural … Continue reading →
Bill Glahn, of the Minnesota Office of Energy Security, has denied the NoCapX 2020 and United Citizen Action Network appeal of his scoping decision for the CapX 2020 Hampton-LaCrosse (Alma) transmission project. No surprise, but the agency’s steadfast refusal to … Continue reading →