Legalectric

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission approved the scope of the Environmental Impact Statement for Xcel’s Mankato-Mississippi (Wilmarth-Tremval) transmission line, PUC Dockets CN-22-532 and TN-23-157. Here’s the Commission Order:

What’s odd is this addition. Commissioner Tuma always, well, nearly always, has some Decision Option, something new or an amendment. Here’s what he proposed this time:

With this map, with no identifying features, classic transmission map without roads labeled:

Tuma said it was a change for a large landowner, and I did find that this had been noted in Comments:

There’s already a transmission line, and won’t moving it further away from that transmission line mean there will be greater loss of trees than if they put it next to the existing line and utilized some of that line’s RoW? What am I missing?