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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.\u00c2\u00a0 The Wisconsin EIS scoping period is happening now.\u00c2\u00a0 Scoping is the determination of the “scope” of the EIS and your comments on what should be included can, indeed, influence the scope.<\/p>\n
Public “open house” style sessions were held in Dodgeville on November 8,\u00c2\u00a0 in Middleton November 12, and in Lancaster on November 14, 2018.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, they way to get comments in is to send them to the PSC.<\/p>\n
EIS SCOPING COMMENTS ARE DUE JANUARY 4, 2019.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, the USDA’s RUS is working on an EIS, these two are separate… WHY?\u00c2\u00a0 That RUS EIS is due to be released December 7 or 14, 2018, though that could change.\u00c2\u00a0 For more info:<\/p>\n USDA-RUS Cardinal-Hickory Creek page<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Has it occurred to USDA’s RUS that a massive transmission build-out hurts agriculture?\u00c2\u00a0 Has it occurred to USDA’s RUS that massive transmission build-out provides incentive and subsidizes generation projects that hurt agriculture?<\/p>\n Here are the PSC’s comment comments:<\/p>\n Note this caveat, where the PSC limits information it will be confronted with:<\/p>\n A comment may consist of the writer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s personal knowledge or personal opinions only. A reference document, newspaper article, professional journal article, white paper, study or any other prepared material not written by the person commenting is not considered a public comment, but may be referenced in a person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comment.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n That policy has been, and remains, infuriating.<\/p>\n To send comments, in order of my biased preference:<\/p>\n EIS SCOPING COMMENTS ARE DUE JANUARY 4, 2019.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Get it done, write up your comments.<\/p>\n I’m particularly concerned about this high voltage build-out, because the grid is already overbuilt.\u00c2\u00a0 This line, together with the others, increases reliance on central station power, and once built, provides a disincentive for distributed and dispersed power.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not needed, it’s wanted. Why? Because utilities make a lot more money through FERC approved return on capital investments for infrastructure than they do selling electricity.\u00c2\u00a0 DOH!\u00c2\u00a0 Who benefits, who pays?\u00c2\u00a0 They benefit, we pay. Thanks, thanks a lot!<\/p>\n My comments from December 2016 to RUS:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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.\u00c2\u00a0 The Wisconsin EIS scoping period is happening now.\u00c2\u00a0 Scoping is the determination of the …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[924,405,192],"tags":[180,179,891,840,671,953,857,879,1034,695,35,188,170,28,1035],"class_list":["post-6573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardinal-hickory-creek","category-ferc","category-rus-eis","tag-american-transmission-company","tag-atc","tag-cardinal-hickory-creek","tag-carol-a-overland","tag-dairyland-power-cooperative","tag-dpc","tag-itc","tag-legalectric","tag-no-capx-2020-usda","tag-power-line","tag-powerline","tag-rural-utilities-service","tag-rus","tag-transmission-line","tag-us-department-of-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573","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=6573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6576,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions\/6576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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