NPS scoping hearings – Susquehanna-Roseland
February 13th, 2010
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From the Stop the Lines! site – check it out!
The National Park Service is holding scoping hearings next week, these are important. Comment period is from January 21, 2010 to March 5, 2010.
ALL MEETINGS ARE 6-8:30 P.M.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Fernwood Hotel (Victorian Room)
Route 209 North
Bushkill, PA.Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Camp Jefferson
81 Weldon Road
Lake Hopatcong, NJThursday, February 18, 2010
Sheraton Parsippany Hotel
199 Smith Road
Parsippany,NJ
These are scoping meetings, to determine the scope of the National Park Service review of this project, and they’re soliciting comments. Comment period is from January 21, 2010 to March 5, 2010. They have issued an internal scoping document, and that’s worth a look see to figure out how they’re looking at it:
Comment period is from January 21, 2010 to March 5, 2010.
NPS, which has jurisdiction over the section of route that traverses, or PLANS to traverse, the Delaware Water Gap, is requiring a look at all three routes that were originally “proposed” for the Susquehanna-Roseland transmission line:
This makes sense because NEPA, the National Environmental Policy Act, requires consideration of alternatives, but I’m not sure that just because the project proposers said these were the alternatives considered that “alternatives” should be limited to these three options. And what about system alternatives?
How will this NPS review come down? This is NOT my area, I don’t know much about it so let’s learn together here!
Comment period is from January 21, 2010 to March 5, 2010.
Mesaba EIS? And close encounters of the Mesaba kind!
November 17th, 2009
The joint DOE and MN Dept. of Commerce EIS for Excelsior Energy’s Mesaba Project has been released. WTF? This is SUCH a waste of time. And I am at a lost to explain how it is that this even was released, why we have to bother with it, when it’s the vampire-vaporware project from hell that is dead but … but…
Excelsior Energy Mesaba Project Environmental Impact Statement
Comments on the “adequacy of the Final EIS or its impact upon the issues” are due on December 2, 2009. Send Comments to:
steve.mihalchick [at] oah.state.mn.us
or by mail to:
Steve Mihalchick, ALJ
Office of Administrative Hearings
P.O. Box 64620
St. Paul, MN 55164-0620
Here’s the Order establishing that deadline:
Is this weird language or what:
b. Such comments on the “adequacy” of the Final EIS or its “impact” upon the issues in this matter shall be filed with the Administrative Law Judge within ten business days after filing of the Final EIS.
So get cracking on “such comments” and send them in!
And just in, breaking news…
Just last Friday, a MCGPer and his son were out deer hunting on the preferred Excelsior site, guns in hand, on the alert, and what should come bursting through the trees but… BOB EVANS! Bob Evans and two other Excelsior boys, they were out viewing the site during deer hunting! That just doesn’t seem to bright.
Give it up!!! Get a job, Bob!!!
And have they forgotten that other encounter in the woods, almost exactly three years ago?
Meanwhile … the sun is coming up over New York right now…
Mesaba FEIS now delayed until JUNE!!!!
March 19th, 2009
Excelsior Energy’s Mesaba Project has been delayed… AGAIN… until June… and when we get closer to June, well, we know what will happen… delay again!
Thanks to Charlotte Neigh and CAMP for keeping on this!