CapX 2020 at Highway 61 south of Wabasha Monday, they had their CapX 2020 Love Fest at the Hampton substation, and I didn’t even get an engraved invitation. It’s a depressing point in time — 12 years on this project … Continue reading →
“Rodney Dangerfield is the patron saint of transmission systems,†quipped Will Kaul, vice president of transmission at Great River Energy and chairman of the CapX2020 group of 11 Minnesota utilities involved in the 800-mile project. Why would there be a … Continue reading →
Enough of holidays and time off, it’s back to the CapX 2020 road show. If you can’t make it to the hearings, you can send comments, identified as “Comments – 09-1056” to: routecomments.oah@state.mn.us or Judge Beverly Heydinger Office of Administrative … Continue reading →
DEIS IS OUT AND DEIS COMMENT MEETINGS ARE SCHEDULED MOES has released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the CapX 2020 Fargo-St. Cloud line (09-1056): Notice of DEIS Release and Public Meetings Fargo-St. Cloud DEIS page – VIEW AND DOWNLOAD … Continue reading →
I’ve been ranting at these meetings for over a decade now… Once more with feeling, here we go… Deja vu all over again… For those of you who have experienced how the Power Plant (transmission too) Siting Act works and … Continue reading →
Here are notes from yesterday’s Brookings CapX 2020 evidentiary hearing in St. Paul. Two interesting things revealed – one, defensive as they are, expansion of the Lake Marion substation could instead be plopped down at the southern most part of … Continue reading →
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Last night we went until a little after 11:54 p.m. when I last saved my notes. The court reporter says it was 12:15 a.m.! We’re here at the Holiday Hotel until about 12:30 (at least that’s what’s planned). Notes … Continue reading →
Brookings CapX Public Hearings are happening. Here’s last night at the Hog Wild Saloon, ROUGH notes, this is assuredly NOT a transcript!!! Hearing notes – December 7 Interesting tidbits — letters from US Fish & Wildlife have surfaced: Ex. 318 … Continue reading →
Last night, Rep. Steve Drazkowski and Rep. Tim Kelly (who wasn’t there!) hosted a meeting about CapX 2o2o (you’ll find this post on Legalectric too, because there’s a lot more than CapX 2020 going on here). But Rep. Randy Demmer, … Continue reading →