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Inadequacy of Goodhue Wind avian assessment
Author: Kelly, Tim; and Drazkowski, Steve | Minnesota, Regulations, Siting, Wildlife
Dear PUC Commissioners: It has come to our attention that the results of the AWA Goodhue Wind pre-construction avian study completed by Westwood Professional Services do not accurately reflect the number of nesting bald eagles in the footprints of the AWA Goodhue Wind development. … Westwood did not use updated information to form accurate conclusions in its avian study. We are aware that there may be as many as 10 occupied eagle nests in the development footprint and that these . . .
More »Wind facility transmission line interference with telephone lines
Author: Weiss, Robert | Impacts, Minnesota
In the Matter of the AWA Goodhue Wind, LLC, Applications for a Certificate of Need and large wind Energy Conversion System Site Permit for the 78 MW Goodhue Wind Farm in Goodhue County, Docket Numbers IP-6701/CN-09-1186 and IP-6701/WS-08-1233. I, Robert C. Weiss, General Manager of Hector Communications Corporation submit these written comments on behalf of the Sleepy Eye Telephone Company, a subsidiary of Hector Communications Corporation. Sleepy Eye Telephone Company is a rural telephone company providing telecommunication services in Goodhue County . . .
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