{"id":938,"date":"2015-08-12T20:56:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/?p=938"},"modified":"2015-08-12T22:34:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T22:34:24","slug":"last-minute-notice-to-landowners-not-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/not-so-great-northern-transmission-line.org\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"Last Minute Notice to Landowners — NOT OK!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So I’m reviewing the Great Northern Transmission Line routing docket (PUC 14-21) and notice that there’s NOTICE to “ADDITIONAL new landowners.”<\/p>\n

Pages from 7272015_Notice_p18_20157-112741-01<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

WHAT!?!?!\u00a0 This is dated July 27, 2015<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 The Application was filed in April, 2014, the DEIS Scoping Decision was filed in January, and the DEIS went out for comment two months ago in June.\u00a0 Sure, there could be landowners who were missed along the way, or maybe they came up with new alignments and so new landowners were affected.\u00a0 That does happen.\u00a0 Shouldn’t happen but it happens all the time — look at the Cannon Falls section of CapX La Crosse line.\u00a0 BUT, to give them Notice NOW and proceed on their merry way with routing this transmission line in this docket is NOT right.<\/p>\n

WHY?\u00a0 There’s no way that someone could catch up and adequately present their case to the PUC in the short time left before the record closes on September 1, 2015.\u00a0 They’ve already missed the EIS scoping, they’ve missed the DEIS comment period, and this Notice came out less than two weeks before the public hearing and “contested case” hearing (I put that in “quotes” because there are no intervenors , it’s not contested).<\/p>\n

Who cares?\u00a0 Well, there are no intervenors.\u00a0 There’s no one representing the public interest.\u00a0 That’s enough to get me fired up.\u00a0 On a RRANT one might say…<\/p>\n

RRANT_Motion to Intervene Out of Time<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Onward… let’s see how due process, public interest, and public participation figures into this!<\/p>\n

How to look up this docket?\u00a0 Just go to the PUC’s eDocket SEARCH SITE<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, and search for Docket 14 (year)- 21 (number).\u00a0 It’s that easy!<\/p>\n

Hearings tonight in Bigfork, and two tomorrow in Grand Rapids, and that’s it, the END!<\/p>\n

… perhaps…\u00a0 … perhaps not…<\/p>\n

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