Legalectric

CORRECTION – there IS a hard copy of the Environmental Report at the table at the entry, there are TWO!!!!

Haven’t seen this for a long time — a sunrise! This one’s a sunrise over Stanton! I love being on the road, but getting moving, out the door by 6 a.m. is not my idea of a good time. Why so early? Well, Pipestone Public Hearing starts at 10 a.m.! Yes, it’s started.

And did people show up — 225 per the Xcel counter! That’s excellent. The sound was horrible though, need to work on that.

Then on to Slayton, though I just popped in and out, just couldn’t subject myself to the blather again.

These transmission proceedings are so exasperating. There’s no provision to get public hearing and evidentiary transcripts to local libraries for folks to catch up on what went on and to use for their comments. There’s also little awareness that this is for commenting on “need” AND the Environmental Report [DELETE: which is not available at the hearing table – CORRECTION, there are two copies available). And there’s no awareness that one can comment on specifics of the Enviromental Report and get answers! That’s just not OK, most of the folks need a little direction!

So I filed this, after talking with the judge, well, first the applicants, then Scott Ek, and THEN the judge, who didn’t want to get into ex parte contact and suggested I file a Motion. OK, fine, I can do that:

Onward!