Overland’s Comments on Hiawatha Project
March 10th, 2010
It’s my old neighborhood, and I just had to put my $0.02 in:
Overland Comments – Hiawatha DEIS
Exhibit A – NM-SPG – July 24, 2008
Exhibit B – NSP Petition for CFSR
Exhibit C – NSP/Taylors Falls/St. Croix Falls Agreement
Exhibit D – Chisago County Resolution re: Facilities Surcharge Rider
Exhibit E – Comments of Power Line Task Force – Docket 99-799
Exhibit F – Conductor Specs – from PUC Docket 01-1958, Ex 35 Application, Appendix 7
Exhibit G – Edison Institute – Transmission Property Values Report
Exhibits D and E, oh my, time flies… I’d completely forgotten about those. And the utilities keep singing the same old tired songs…
LEC meets today — MOES presents “Resource Assessment”
October 23rd, 2009
Today’s the day that the Legislative Energy Commission meets to hear about MOES Resource Assessment Study. Focus is on the horse’s ASS of Assessment, it is deserving of one of these guys:
Here it is:
The LEC meeting starts in 10 minutes — hammer down!
FRIDAY, October 23, 2009
12:30 PM
Room: 200 State Office Building
And when you get there, hammer on them, there’s no excuse for a report like this. Look at their forecasts, they admit the system peak was 2006, folks, it’s been downhill from there, that’s more than a “blip” and when you add in the 1.5% conservation mandate, where are we? They’ve not addressed this.
If you look at where Xcel thought we’d be, in their 2004 forecasts for Blue Lake, we’re below where they said we’d be in 2004. Hmmmmmmmmm, take a look at Xcel’s forecast:
And Xcel’s peak demand reality:
And very graphically:
We’re down at least 2-2.5% in 2009 from SEC filings. At this rate, how long before we’re at the 2004 forecasted 9,100MW? MOES, how stupid do you think we are? If I were on the LEC, I’d be outraged! I’m not on the LEC so I’m just … just… lacking in words… If I produced something like this, I’d be fired.
Hiawatha Transmission Project Update
June 2nd, 2009
Xcel’s Hiawatha Transmission Project, through the heart of the Phillips neighborhood in Minneapolis, was on the PUC’s agenda last Thursday. I had some deadline or other and couldn’t go, but here’s what happened:
Of course MOES thought everything was just ducky…
Midtown Greenway filed a Comment:
There was no Petition for a Contested Case filed, but a Contested Case was ordered because Xcel has taken the mandatory Contested Case route. There were no Petitions to Intervene… There was only ONE comment filed…
Here’s the PUC’s Order:
Here’s the Dept. of Commerce’s view of Scoping for the full-blown Environmental Impact Statement:
So there we are… Bill Storm of MOES is assuming that it’s an EIS we’re doing, that’s a good thing. Check the DRAFT scope, though, and note how narrow it is.
There’s a public meeting for scoping (hmmmm… I wonder if I got notice… $50 says no — Bill says yes, and where’s the $50, but, “It would be WRONG,” she says, speaking into the lampshade…):
DOE-MOES – Notice of EIS Scoping Meeting
Thursday, June 18, 2009 – 6:oo p.m.
Midtown Global Market
920 East Lake St.
Mpls, MN
Comments accepted until July 10, 2009
Send to:
Bill Storm, Project Manager
MN Dept of Commerce
85 – 7th Place East, Suite 500
St. Paul, MN 55101
or
bill.storm@state.mn.us
OK, folks, get to work!
- Now’s the time to read the application (Xcel’s Hiawatha Project Page HERE) and draft a Comment about what should be included in the EIS.
- Now’s the time to put in your requests to be on the Citizens Advisory Task Force
- Now’s the time to Petition to Intervene! (well, it’s not to late… YET…)
Chisago Transmission Line Comments in thus far
June 2nd, 2009
It’s all about this short section of the Chisago Transmission Project. This is a cropped portion of a map in the DoC’s Environmental Assessment, Map 4 to be precise.
To look at the entire docket, go to:
then to “eDockets” and search for 06-1677
A little light reading:
And the Comment period ends TODAY! ENDED! It’s history… Some Comments received — in alpha order:
My big question, which OAH couldn’t answer, was whether THE Agreement was filed in that OAH docket way back in 2000, was it filed in the EQB docket, filed in any docket???
So where did Mikey Bull go?
May 18th, 2009
I’ve heard he’s at Xcel, which given Pawlenty and WOW would not be that much of a change, but can it really be?
Yes, it is true, Mike Bull now works at Xcel Energy, confirmed by two independent sources and then confirmed by Mikey himself! All I can say is, “Oh… my…” and shake my head in amazement.
I preferred speculating about what he might be doing:
Maybe he’s trying to get Pawlenty’s energy program on track?
Maybe he’s on maternity leave?
Maybe he’s at MISO with cohort Ed Garvey?
Maybe he’s high-tailed it to Costa Rica where they’ve got sensible energy policy?
Maybe he’s in the klink for corruption?
Maybe he’s at Commerce again trying to fix that hopeless Dogforsaken mess?
Maybe he’s out east to knock some “sense” into those transmission negative-nellies?
Maybe he’s in a cabin in the mountains writing the scandalous tell-all?
Maybe he’s at Briggs & Morgan selling/redeeming his soul?
Maybe he’s home house-training their new puppy?
Working for WOW made no sense at all, but now what?
Xcel???? Into the bowels of the devil itself, hard to get worse than WOW but … oh… my… this is worse…
… pass the barf bag…