Legalectric

Oh, lordy, a handful, or more, of prior non-transmission clients affected by this — got notice from two recently, they learned from postcards in the mail. No, that’s not campaign pre-caucus blurbs! Very glad they didn’t throw them away. Also heard of another person down in the Iowa section today! So many are affected by this MISO Tranche 2.1.

Now, on to the “Power on Midwest” projects that dropped today:

These were FOUR Certificate of Need dockets, CN-25-117, CN-25-118, CN-25-119, and CN-25-120. They’ve been consolidated into ONE. Here’s the rough breakdown from the application (linked below, p. 4-5):

Here’s the application, all across southwest and south central Minnesota, and heading north to the “North Rochester” substation north of Pine Island and on to Hampton:

A little light reading so you’ll be ready for the round of scoping & early comment meetings in a week or two…

Scoping meetings next week:

Here’s the full notice — COMMENTS ARE DUE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 – 4:30 p.m.

Note this project’s start at the Iron Range substation, where the Great Northern Transmission Project ends, at the Iron Range substation:

Application for the Iron Range to Arrowhead transmission line is IN, well, ARE in, both the Certificate of Need and Transmission Routing — JOINT application. Check out Appendix J – it’s from the EQB’s Exemption docket for Arrowhead-Weston! There’s the EQB Exemption, the ALJ’s Recommendation (from a 2 week hearing) and the TRANSCRIPT from the EQB meeting where we got the 800MVA limitation on the output of the Arrowhead substation into Wisconsin. What a hoot!

Here’s the Court Order, it’s a must read, and as of today, they’re home:

State of Minnesota has sued “ICE” (shorthand for all the feds and agencies). What are they seeking from the court:

It’s a pretty short but detailed order, and in essence, ICE OUT!

The “AG” Bondi extortion letter was discussed at the hearing, and here it is:

She needs to be fired, and sent to jail.

In the meantime, in another venue, Patrick J. Schiltz, Chief Judge of United States District Court, Minnesota, has said ENOUGH and ordered Todd Lyons, Acting Director of ICE to appear in a succinct Order to Show Cause why he should not be found in Contempt for not ordering a bond hearing or releasing a man detained by ICE:

Why is Todd Lyons ACTING Director of ICE?

MISO today at 3:08. Will keep checking now and then.