{"id":5366,"date":"2014-05-15T09:36:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2014-05-20T08:35:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T15:35:09","slug":"5366","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=5366","title":{"rendered":"CETF&#8217;s Deb Severson on WPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Deb Severson:<\/p>\n<div class=\"moz-text-html\" lang=\"x-unicode\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">Today&#8217;s (5\/15) WPR Newsmakers covered Badger Coulee and provided an opportunity for commentary. \u00c2\u00a0While heard in SW WI, the statewide website carries the link for others to listen:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong><a style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wpr.org\/badger-coulee-transmission-line-project\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wpr.org\/badger-coulee-transmission-line-project<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>ATC is first<\/li>\n<li>PSC second<\/li>\n<li>Commentary third beginning at around 29 minutes (move the button vs fast forward if you want to go there)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is worth noting that Matt Johnson&#8217;s extremely strong and well done editorial in the Vernon Broadcaster hit many of the same themes:<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\">\n<div style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">(see link and below: \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\">http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html<\/a> )<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><\/div>\n<p>In Cooperation, Deb<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\">Matt&#8217;s Editorial_________________________________________________________<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\"><b>Badger Coulee proposal should be denied by Public Service Commission<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">May 14, 2014 8:00 am \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u00c2\u00a0Matt Johnson matt.johnson@lee.net<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">The Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC) has just cause to make history in turning down the application for the Badger Coulee line.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">The PSC has never turned down an application for an electrical transmission project in Wisconsin.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">Over the next 180 to 360 days, the PSC will consider the fate of the Badger Coulee line, which is being pitched by the American Transmission Co. and Xcel Energy. The Badger Coulee Line is a 345-kilovolt electrical transmission line from Madison to La Crosse.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a $550 million project that in the application phase is already a fossil.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">It is part of a spider web of other similar lines. It is not to benefit those who live near it. It is a mechanism by which utilities can \u00e2\u20ac\u0153trade\u00e2\u20ac\u009d electricity.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">Construction of this line is completely unnecessary.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">Why create enormous electrical transmission infrastructure at a time when less electricity is being used and the overwhelming trend is to create renewable local energy sources?<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">Toss out whatever clich\u00c3\u00a9 you wish \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the 800-pound gorilla in the corner, give it the duck test, identify the elephant in the room \u00e2\u20ac\u201c at the end of the day, an unnecessary $550 million power line is still an unnecessary $550 million power line.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">Examining the documents leading up to this moment is a nightmare of tedium. You can find all of the formal documents on the PSC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website http:\/\/psc.wi.gov under the case No. \u00e2\u20ac\u01535-CE-142.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dating back to 2010 there are more than 350 documents, diagrams, attachments, figures, etc., on this list. None of them reasonably state why the line is needed.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">There are cheerleaders for the Badger Coulee line \u00e2\u20ac\u201d those who would profit from its construction. This includes the restaurant association and numerous trade unions for whom its construction would provide jobs. We can all agree that restaurants need to serve food and people in the trades need jobs. But they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to get them by building an enormous, unnecessary electrical line.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">More importantly, electrical rate payers do not deserve to pay 40 years\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 worth of rate hikes for an unnecessary transmission line.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">We live in a world where electrical rate payers are buying out solar farms \u00e2\u20ac\u201d such as that offered recently at Vernon Electric in Westby. People understand and agree that they want local, renewable, clean energy sources. The Badger Coulee Line is a $550 million 20th century square peg that is being jammed into a 21st century vaporizing round hole.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">Our world needs less of everything the Badger Coulee Line represents, not more.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">A vote by the PSC to approve the Badger Coulee Line should be viewed historically for what it will be, an enormous money grab that ignores reality and the wishes of state residents, who have overwhelmingly asked for alternatives to this project.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/vernonbroadcaster\/news\/opinion\/editorial\/badger-coulee-proposal-should-be-denied-by-public-service-commission\/article_5c5f6f7a-cab4-51d1-afdc-cc22aef5f0b2.html\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">Babies who haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been born yet will be approaching middle age and look to the skyline and see this enormous boondoggle on the horizon. If it exists, it will be an epic monument to our failure to recognize their needs.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Deb Severson: Today&#8217;s (5\/15) WPR Newsmakers covered Badger Coulee and provided an opportunity for commentary. \u00c2\u00a0While heard in SW WI, the statewide website carries the link for others to listen: http:\/\/www.wpr.org\/badger-coulee-transmission-line-project ATC is first PSC second Commentary third beginning <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=5366\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[585],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badgercoulee-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5375,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions\/5375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}