Legalectric

ANNUAL HEARING – POWER PLANT SITING ACT
2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
PUC – Small Hearing Room
121 – 7th Place E.
St. Paul

I’ll bring my coffee pot and coffee.
Bring healthful treats to share, e.g., high carb, butter, unrefined sugar!

It’s not 116C anymore, it’s 216E… and that’s just the start of the changes to the Power Plant Siting Act, and here’s your opportunity to tell them what you think (for those of you wallflowers who don’t do it daily) for the record!

216E.07 ANNUAL HEARING.

The commission shall hold an annual public hearing at a time and place prescribed by rule in order to afford interested persons an opportunity to be heard regarding any matters relating to the siting of large electric generating power plants and routing of high-voltage transmission lines. At the meeting, the commission shall advise the public of the permits issued by the ommission in the past year. The commission shall provide at least ten days but no more than 45 days’ notice of the annual meeting by mailing notice to those persons who have requested notice and by publication in the EQB Monitor and the commission’s weekly calendar.

This is for the Siting side of large electrical facilities.

The site for that part of things is the “Facility Permitting” site on the PUC’s site, go figure… I have asked so many times for a schematic of how it all fits together and everyone just laughs.

Here’s the link for the Project Docket site for the Annual Hearing. You’ll note 2005 dropped off the map… sigh…
Usually there’s a record – it’s taped, and then there are summarized comments which are usually pretty good, but in 2005 it looks like they’re all sleeping at the switch. That’s the first meeting after the switch from EQB to “the agency formerly known as the EQB” and no, I don’t know what to call it because, hey, it’s supposed to be “Commerce” but it’s at the PUC site, the Hearing docket and all the stuff that area is working on, so you tell me… makes no sense…

Remember when there was a “Department of PUBLIC SERVICE?” What a concept.

ANNUAL HEARING – POWER PLANT SITING ACT
2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
PUC – Small Hearing Room
121 – 7th Place E.
St. Paul

Come on down and let them all know what you think!