{"id":788,"date":"2009-06-17T20:12:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T03:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=788"},"modified":"2009-07-28T06:39:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T13:39:55","slug":"wanamingo-another-well-attended-rus-eis-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"Wanamingo &#8211; another well-attended RUS EIS meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00252.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-790 alignleft\" title=\"dsc00252\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00252-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dsc00252\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There&#8217;s &#8220;larger than life&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.u-canmn.org\">Joyce Osborn, United Citizens Action Network,<\/a> at the Wanamingo meeting tonight, where RUS was holding an open house to gather public comments for their Environmental Impact Statement.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, nevermind, it&#8217;s a MINATURE turbine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tonight, there were about 200 people &#8212; Stephanie Strength said that last night&#8217;s crowd in Plainview was MORE than 200!\u00c2\u00a0 It was a good gathering and I got to meet a lot of people I&#8217;ve been corresponding with but never met, and Joyce and Judy from U-CAN (United Citizens Action Network) were there and I overheard someone telling Joyce how much she&#8217;d appreciated her comments at the Cannon Falls PUC Public Hearing, that she really went at it and said what needed to be said!\u00c2\u00a0 That kind of statement makes this battle a lot easier!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you want to be added to my email notice list, drop me a line &#8212; you know how to find me!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-791 alignleft\" title=\"dsc00250\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00250-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"dsc00250\" width=\"324\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here are some suggestions for Comments &#8211; feel free to use them, expand on them, apply them to your situation (I cannot get links to work in this doc, so you&#8217;ll probably have to cut and paste them into browser):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/commentsuggestions-scopeeis.pdf\">Comment Suggestions &#8211; Scope EIS<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And here&#8217;s a perennial favorite that I can&#8217;t ever print enough of:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/buy_the_farm.pdf\">Buy the Farm &#8211; Minn. Stat. 216E.12<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here are the primary documents to use for Commenting on the EIS:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usda.gov\/rus\/water\/ees\/pdf\/Dairyland%20NOI%20FedReg%20052809.pdf\">Federal Register Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usda.gov\/rus\/water\/ees\/pdf\/Dairyland%20CapX2020%20345%20AES%200509.pdf\">Alternative Evaluation Study (it&#8217;s BIG)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usda.gov\/rus\/water\/ees\/pdf\/Dairyland%20CapX%202020%20MCS%200509.pdf\">Macro Corridor Study (it&#8217;s BEYOND BIG)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Broken down Macro Corridor Study:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usda.gov\/rus\/water\/ees\/pdf\/Dairyland%20CapX%202020%20Chapters%201-4.pdf\">Chapters 1-4<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usda.gov\/rus\/water\/ees\/pdf\/Dairyland%20CapX%202020%20Chapter%205.pdf\">Chapter 5<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usda.gov\/rus\/water\/ees\/pdf\/Dairyland%20CapX%202020%20Chapters%206-7.pdf\">Chapter 6-7<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usda.gov\/rus\/water\/ees\/pdf\/Dairyland%20CapX%202020%20Appendices.pdf\">Appendices<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-789 alignleft\" title=\"dsc00251\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc00251-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dsc00251\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s &#8220;larger than life&#8221; Joyce Osborn, United Citizens Action Network, at the Wanamingo meeting tonight, where RUS was holding an open house to gather public comments for their Environmental Impact Statement.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, nevermind, it&#8217;s a MINATURE turbine&#8230; Tonight, there were <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=788\"><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":[192],"tags":[14,193,27,194,188,170,942],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rus-eis","tag-capx-2020","tag-dairyland-power","tag-nocapx-2020","tag-public-meeting","tag-rural-utilities-service","tag-rus","tag-rus-eis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}