Legalectric

Today at 4:20 p.m. I received the Dept. of Commerce a scheduling proposal for the Xcel Energy cross-country greenfield transmission project with the stated purpose of preserving Xcel’s “valuable” transmission rights at the Sherco substation at a cost of $1.114 BILLION to be paid by ratepayers. Whew, so I took a look at it and at the PUC proposal, which came through earlier.

Looking at it, the left out some important things, so I fired off a pissive, and filed it a few minutes ago. These omissions of public comment, of scheduling the Draft EIS so late, and the Final EIS so much later, JUST NO! They didn’t even acknowledge that there may be parties to file Direct Testimony — only the Applicant is on schedule to file Direct. And the Final EIS isn’t on schedule to be released until after Initial and Reply Briefs are in. WTAF?!?! How about reading the rules, folks? So needless to say, yes, I fired off a pissive:

The Prehearing Conference is at 10 a.m. on May 1, 2024, where some of these issues will be ironed out: