Excelsior’s Mesaba power plant siting, transmission and pipeline application is in, and word is that Commerce Staff is recommending that rather than the Citizens Advisory Task Force, the PUC should appoint a “working group with local units of government.” The public is shut out once again. This is getting really old…

The “working group” and Task Force will be addressed by the PUC at their meeting on July 6, at 9:00 a.m.

TELL THE PUC WE NEED A CITIZENS ADVISORY TASK FORCE!!!
Here’s the rule that provides for the Task Force. We need to have the public involved, looking into the nooks and crannies of this application, applying the critical eye that only locals have. This project needs some serious scrutiny.

Click here and email Burl Haar, Executive Sec. of PUC, and tell him that for the Excelsior/Mesaba siting docket 05-94-PPS you’re requesting that the PUC appoint a Citizens Advisory Task Force, because the public should be involved in this first of a kind decision, that regular people invested in the community, people who have to live with the result, must be able to take part.

The entire application is now on the … PUC siting… Commerce… the agency formerly known as “EQB”… site.

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