{"id":605,"date":"2014-09-07T14:27:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T14:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/?p=605"},"modified":"2014-09-07T16:43:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T16:43:08","slug":"thursday-puc-addresses-task-force-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Thursday – PUC addresses Task Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, September 11, 2014, the Public Utilities Commission will take up the request from Commerce for reconsideration of its authorization of Advisory Task Forces. Here’s the Agenda-9-11-2014<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 It will not be heard before 10:30 a.m., and will be webcast.<\/p>\n

To watch online:\u00a0 Live Webcast<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday’s meeting is located at:<\/p>\n

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Public Utilities Commission<\/address>\n
121 – 7th Place East, 3rd Floor Large Hearing Room<\/address>\n
St. Paul, MN<\/address>\n<\/blockquote>\n

PUC staff is encouraging a hybrid workgroup to address both the lack of enough participants and the need for public input:<\/p>\n

PUC Staff Briefing Papers_Citizens Advisory Task Force_20149-102831-01<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Commerce had some Comments (why do they get to file and we don’t have opportunity to respond?), and is also looking at a hybrid, by telephone:<\/p>\n

CATF Comments_20149-102886-01<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What bothers me about this is that Commerce is taking a very narrow view of who should participate, and has not made a public broad solicitation.\u00a0 “The Public” is absent.\u00a0 Their letter to local governments said only local government officials or local government employees were invited, and it couldn’t be appointed non-employees!\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Where did they find that restriction?\u00a0 And then the second thing, is it sufficient to be calling and accepting a “Not Interested” statement from whoever answers?<\/p>\n

Going back, here are the public comments that were received:<\/p>\n

Comments_CATF_20148-102578-01<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Overland_CATF Comments<\/a><\/strong> (I filed as individual, RRANT has intervened in only the Certificate of Need docket, not routing.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Commerce’s initial request:<\/p>\n

Commerce Request to Reconsider Task Forces<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thursday — not to be heard before 10:30!\u00a0 Be there or be square — and remember, its webcast!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, September 11, 2014, the Public Utilities Commission will take up the request from Commerce for reconsideration of its authorization of Advisory Task Forces. Here’s the Agenda-9-11-2014.\u00a0 It will not be heard before 10:30 a.m., and will be webcast. To … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}