It’s out, the USDA’s RUS EIS for Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission project: Draft Environmental Impact Statement – November 2018 Volume 1: Chapter 1-3 Volume 2: Chapters 4-8, Appendices From the RUS Notice, how to send in comments and list of public … Continue reading →
Cardinal-Hickory Creek is the $492-543 million southern part of MPV5, running SW-NE, the line from near Dubuque to Middleton, near Madison, connecting into the 345kV overlay. The Wisconsin EIS scoping period is happening now. Scoping is the determination of the … Continue reading →
Slow evening at Rural Utilities Service’s (RUS) scoping meeting for the Environmental Impact Statement for the Cardinal – Hickory Creek transmission project. RUS is involved because Dairyland Power Cooperative (DPC) plans to hold a 9% undivided interest in the project, … 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 →
SENT! On behalf of No CapX 2020 I sent the following Comments: No CapX 2020_Q-1D South_Comment_9-25-2015 I’ve asked how many times for more information, nada, still nothing. N-O-T-H-I-N-G! Of particular note is this handy-dandy chart that Bruce McKay had put … Continue reading →
The USDA’s Rural Utilities Service has released the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the CapX 2020 Hampton-Rochester-LaCrosse transmission line. COMMENTS ARE DUE ROUGHLY AUGUST 20, 2012, that’s 30 days after the Notice of FEIS should be published in the Federal … Continue reading →
The Draft Environmental Impact Statement is out for the CapX 2020 Hampton – LaCrosse line! I’m shocked, expected that with the workload lately, it would be at least another month. The big issue for me is that they’re not working … Continue reading →
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reviewed the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) prepared by MOES as a joint MOES/Rural Utilities Service Environmental Impact Statement. To see the DEIS, go to www.puc.state.mn.us, then “Search eDockets” and then to docket 07-1327. The … Continue reading →
Got word today, as those of you who sent comments did, that “comments were received” and a blurb about how it goes. Here’s the poop: All comments will be analyzed and summarized in a public scoping report, which will be … Continue reading →
Here’s the official poop from Stephanie Strength, USDA’s RUS: When the deadline falls on a weekend, comments will be accepted postmarked the following business day or emailed through midnight of that day. In this case that would be Monday July … Continue reading →