PUC AGENDA MEETING

Thursday, August 6

#3 on agenda, meeting starts at 10 a.m.

3rd Floor Large Hearing Room

121 – 7th Place East, St. Paul

If you didn’t get notice, if you’ve made comments, if you want to know what’s going on, make sure you are on the PUC’s notice list:

Full Meeting Notice — instructions for virtual here:

Here’s what they’re deciding on:

Briefing papers are out already, posted even before the meeting notice! READ THIS:

Talon Mine has been brewing for a LONG time, and now we’re moving into a time in the Department of Natural Resources’ process when we can weigh in:

DNR NOTICE OF COMMENT PERIOD AND SCOPING DECISION

Comments must be made to the Responsible Governmental Unit (RGU) and received by 4:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 14, 2026.

There are two formal in-person comment opportunities (why Blaine?):

And the documents – plenty of homework to do:

Transmission — it’s all connected, and it never ends.

I’d received a pile of documents from the Minnesota Department of Transportation in response to a Data Practices Act Request from a while ago related to PowerOn Midwest, but the email disappeared — I’d had a HUGE chunk of my inbox vanish recently (thankfully I file or delete most of everything, not too much disappeared). Got it back a couple days ago and am going through it, THANK YOU, DOT!

Here’s the request:

Since CapX 2020, even before, the DOT’s Policy of Accommodation has been a factor in the routing of transmission.

I’ll be posting the documents little by little here. The internet is forever, so they’ll never vanish!

Here we go, the Initial Comments on the Iron Range-St. Louis County-Arrowhead transmission project:

Fresh Energy says:

Now that Fresh Energy’s Michael Noble and Allen Gleckner are stumping for Google, I wonder if they’d say that under oath!?!?!

What money can buy… June 21st, 2026

Will add Comments from others if/when they’re filed.