Susquehanna-Roseland Intervenor Testimony!
July 17th, 2009
It’s here, the testimony of the Intervenors against PSE&G’s Susquehanna-Roseland transmission project, well, it was last week, and FINALLY I’m getting around to posting it.
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COALITION OF TOWNS
Exhibits will take a while — there are a LOT
BKS-1 – PEC Motion to VA Supreme Court
BKS-5 – PSEG 2009 Q1 Earnings Call Transcript
BKS-7 – Rosengren Reuters June 5, 2009
BKS-8 – PEPCO PR MAPP May 19, 2009
BKS-10 – Rebecca Smith, Wall Street Journal
FREDON PALS & WILLOW DAY CAMP
More Discovery on Susquehanna-Roseland
May 27th, 2009
Fredon School
Dig this:
“Visual simulation” of what towers will look like compared with present strutures
The Susquehanna-Roseland transmission line through Pennsylvania and New Jersey is getting a little hairier, YEAAAAA. Fredon PALS, a group centered around the Fredon School, which is facing transmission lines over its property(school, above), sent their first Discovery over the bow today. It’s good stuff, I love it when this happens.
Until now, we’d been the only Intervenors who’d sent PSE&G any Discovery, Stop the Lines, that is, and with this filing today, Welcome to the Club, Fredon PALS!!!
PSE&G Discovery – Susquehanna-Roseland line
May 17th, 2009
It’s been a busy couple of weeks, with Discovery to and fro with PSE&G. Here’s the results:
This is their response to the BPU Discovery. Although Ken Sheehan at BPU had said we could proceed with Discovery before we were parties, we’d sent the blanket request for others’ requests to avoid duplication and find out where we were at, but they ignored it, and even BPU would not forward their requests… so we sat in the dark until after our intervention was formally granted. I asked again, and lo and behold, that same day, BPU turned over their requests and PSE&G turned over their respones to BPU Discovery. Many of the responses aren’t, so I imagine there’ll be some wrangling about that.
Here’s what we’ve sent to them so far:
The Discovery deadline for the Direct Testimony has been extended to June 5th.
Are we having fun yet?
Susquehanna-Roseland Xmsn Interventions OK’d
April 29th, 2009
Day before yesterday, New Jersey’s Board of Public Utilities met to make determinations on the Motions for Intervention of a large number of parties. Stop the Lines, of course being one! They’d objected to our Intervention:
… but had no objection to my Pro Hac Vice… go figure. And the feeling I had from the BPU is that they were honestly encouraging interventions. SO, what happened?
State: 17 groups may intervene in PSE&G’s power line proposal
By Colleen O’Dea • Daily Record • April 27, 2009All 17 groups that sought to be part of the hearing process on Public Service Electric and Gas Company’s proposed transmission line project may do so, the state Board of Public Utilities decided today.
Meeting in Newark, the board also directed PSE&G to meet with the intervening parties – several municipalities, environmental organizations and citizens groups – to negotiate an agreement on the establishment of an escrow account from which the groups could pay for expert witnesses.
“Super,” is how Dave Slaperud of the 300-member Stop the Lines, one of six groups the utility had sought to bar from intervening in its application to add 500 kilovolt lines along a 46-mile transmission corridor from Pennsylvania through Morris County to Roseland, described the BPU’s decision.
“We would have been really surprised if we had been denied intervener status,” said Slaperud. “There are so many of us living along the line who are affected and not all the municipalities are getting involved in the process.”
Among the government bodies that are involved are East Hanover, Montville, Parsippany and Byram townships and the Montville Board of Education. Interveners are allowed to request discovery documents, cross examine witnesses and present their own expert testimony.
And more:
Groups cleared to speak at powerline hearings
Transmission for coal – FERC AD05-3
March 21st, 2009
Yes, all this transmission we see, the hard to believe plans of superhighways across the country, MTEP, JCSP, Green Power Express, TrAIL line, Mid-Atlantic Power Pathway, Susquehanna-Roseland, on and on and on, it’s for coal, we know that, but when the truth jumps up and is as in-your-face as it is at this meeting… well, ya gotta read it to believe it. From the FERC docket entitled PROMOTING REGIONAL TRANSMISSION PLANNING AND EXPANSION TO FACILITATE FUEL DIVERSITY INCLUDING EXPANDED USES OF COAL-FIRED RESOURCES (really, that’s the name…):
Here, from p. 61, is a tantalizing snippet from the Pres. of PJM:
PJM is certainly proud of what has been accomplished to date to open up markets to coal, but there is much more that we and others in this region can do to further enhance that use of coal.
It is for this reason that, today, PJM is setting out by example, a new initiative which we have labeled Project Mountaineer — appropriately titled for the state that we’re in — to utilize our regional transmission expansion planning process to explore ways to further develop an efficient transmission super highway, if you will, to deliver the low-cost coal resources in this region of the country, to market.
And to actually build it when people don’t want it over their land, don’t want to look at it, don’t want the EMF impacts? Well, they say…
About the only answer to that would be some sort of federal siting law that would basically overcome local property rights.
National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors anyone? This was in 2005… as the CapX Technical Report was about to be published, putting all of this into action… sigh….
To look up the entire docket, go HERE and search for AD05-3, and voila, there it is for your edification and reading enjoyment!
It’s all for coal, we know that, and we’ve got to NOT let them get away with this!