ATC/ITC/Dairyland’s Cardinal-Hickory Creek Transmission
May 17th, 2016
Be there or be square — transmission open houses in eastern Iowa near Dubuque and southwestern Wisconsin near Cassville.
Monday, May 16 –
Peosta Community Center
7896 Burds Road
Peosta, IA 52068Tuesday, May 17 –
Pioneer Lanes
1185 US (Business) 151
Platteville, WI 53818Wednesday, May 18 –
Deer Valley Lodge
401 West Industrial Drive
Barneveld, WI 53507Thursday, May 19 –
Deer Valley Lodge
401 West Industrial Drive
Barneveld, WI 53507
Where’s Art Hughes when you need him??
Art Hughes has died… March 31st, 2009
Days before he died, Art Hughes was testifying in Peosta against an ITC transmission line heading east to Peosta, here’s the photo from that hearing, and the article about it is in the “Art Hughes has died…” link above.
And now they’re doing another round of open houses, yesterday in Peosta, IA. Wherefore Art thou? Well, Art, where are you? I guess they remember him, because this time it’s “open house” and not a meeting/hearing. These “open houses” are held by ATC, ITC, and Dairyland about its plan for the Cardinal-Hickory Creek Transmission Project. This project is the southern part of the “5” project on the MISO MVP project map below, from the Hickory Creek substation (near Dubuque) to the Cardinal substation (near Madison)(the northern part of 5 is the Xcel/ATC Badger Coulee line). It’s one of the transmission lines that fills in the 345 kV transmission gaps to enable North & South Dakota to Chicago bulk power transfer.
Once more with feeling: Open House Schedule — each starts at 4 p.m. and goes until 7 p.m. (hello, ITC, it’s planting season, how convenient!):
Monday, May 16 –
Peosta Community Center
7896 Burds Road
Peosta, IA 52068Tuesday, May 17 –
Pioneer Lanes
1185 US (Business) 151
Platteville, WI 53818Wednesday, May 18 –
Deer Valley Lodge
401 West Industrial Drive
Barneveld, WI 53507Thursday, May 19 –
Deer Valley Lodge
401 West Industrial Drive
Barneveld, WI 53507
Art Hughes has died…
March 31st, 2009
I’ve just received a missive from Iowa that Art Hughes, Ph.D. in Power Engineering, died last month, February 17, 2009.
Bernard A. Hughes
He was born on April 3, 1945, in Hereford, United Kingdom, son of James R. and Sara (Price) Hughes.
Art died just a few days after this photo was taken. He was making comments at a public meeting about an ITC transmission line through his Peosta, Iowa neighborhood:
Hearing generates electricity
Dubuque County landowners express concern about ITC transmission line
By MICHAEL SCHMIDT TH staff writerPEOSTA, Iowa — Jack Ludescher has second thoughts about his retirement home.
During the question-and-answer session, property owners voiced their concerns about the project.
Doug Behnke, of Peosta, questioned how energy from the transmission line would be neutralized.
Behnke scoffed at ITC’s graphic, calling it “distortion.”