E.O. 11-04 Establishing Goals and Procedures to Ensure that Certain Environmental Permits are Issued More Efficiently<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n That E.O. pushed the MPCA and DNR to ram through permits through FAST (and delay has NOT been a demonstrable problem, because the delays have been caused by applicants not providing required information) as if that “improves” environmental review.<\/p>\n A<\/strong>nd then comes Gov. Dayton’s Executive Order 11-32, which started this round:<\/p>\n He’s pushing for “streamlining” and those words are just so wrongheaded.\u00c2\u00a0 And they way he’s doing it, all this activity at the EQB making recommendations on “improving environmental review” and “governance and coordination” BEFORE they have the public meetings and this “Environmental Congress.”\u00c2\u00a0 So tell me, how is it that the fix isn’t in, and we’re now going through the motions after it’s already a done deal?\u00c2\u00a0 Do tell, how are these “oh-so-proud we’re DFL” Democrats any better than the “strip-the-funding-until-regulation-collapses” Republicans?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s bad news any way you look at it.<\/p>\n But yes, let’s look at it.<\/p>\n Here’s what the EQB released last week.\u00c2\u00a0 Deputy Commissioner Bill Grant (Settlement Agreement – ME3(Fresh Energy), Izaak Walton League, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, North American Water Office<\/a>) now in charge of Energy Facilities Permitting, and Matt Langan (who now works for Xcel, so two different sources have said, way to go Matt… sigh… after blowing environmental review on CapX Hampton-La Crosse, omitting transmission where there’s a HUGE corridor, and saying there’s transmission where there is none, GOOD JOB!) were to do the “Report Card.”\u00c2\u00a0 They have no business doing any such thing, are uniquely disqualified.\u00c2\u00a0 But Matt left, leaving Bill Grant… that environmental review is in any way in his hands is disturbing.<\/p>\n Reading the Evaluation and Recommendations for Improving Environmental Review<\/a>, maybe the Comments got through to some extent.\u00c2\u00a0 The ultimate recommendations are better than the draft, for sure.<\/p>\n OH MY!\u00c2\u00a0 The Recommendations for Environmental Governance and Coordination<\/a> are even better, recommending no changes to recognizing that there isn’t sufficient staff to do the work.\u00c2\u00a0 The MPCA part could still be a problem, as it recommends MPCA address how to change, so keep on it!<\/p>\n Some of the meetings are this week, starting Tuesday at TOO EARLY O’CLOCK!\u00c2\u00a0 It looks to me that Ellen Anderson is doing for Dayton what Mike Bull did for Pawlenty (well, among other things), these dog and pony shows across the state.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been passing out handouts about this hoping to get folks to turn out and give them a piece of their mind about what “improvement” of environmental review should mean.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Handout – RW Forum<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Starts in Rochester on Tuesday MORNING at 9:30 a.m.\u00c2\u00a0 Whose brilliant idea was that, who can show up at 9:30 a.m. on a Tuesday? How did this slashing of environmental review, started under Pawlenty, continue under Gov. 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November 27 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Rochester, Wood \t\t\tLake Meeting Center<\/a> 9:30am \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 12:00pm<\/p>\n November 27 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Bloomington, \t\t\tNormandale Community College<\/a> 6:30pm \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 9:00pm<\/p>\n November 28 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Duluth, Lake \t\t\tSuperior College<\/a> 5:30pm \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 8:00pm<\/p>\n December 10 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Worthington, \t\t\tWorthington High School<\/a> 3:30pm \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 6:00pm<\/p>\n December 12 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c St. Cloud, Stearns \t\t\tCounty Service Center<\/a> 5:30pm \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 8:00pm<\/p>\n December 14 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Moorhead, Minnesota \t\t\tState University<\/a> 3:00pm \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 5:30pm<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"