http://looncommons.org/2008/01/31/feeling-lucky/ A forum for current and emerging environmental and conservation issues in Minnesota. Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:07:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://looncommons.org/2008/01/31/feeling-lucky/comment-page-1/#comment-481 Kelly Fuller Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:25:15 +0000 http://looncommons.org/2008/01/31/feeling-lucky/#comment-481 I think the state is surprised by the continuing vehement, grass-roots opposition to Big Stone II project. There was a standing-room only crowd at the PUC hearing on January 10 in Ortonville. All kinds of different people spoke out against the project, but students were particularly eloquent in their desire for a better, cleaner energy future than Big Stone II would provide. After all, they are the ones who will have to live with the project's nasty effects, long after the current decision makers are dead. The students and other members of the public were there again at an evidentiary hearing on January 23 even though the rules weren't going to allow them to speak. I understand that enough of them came that the hearng had to be moved to a larger room. The lesson of all of this is an old one: together we are strong. I think the state is surprised by the continuing vehement, grass-roots opposition to Big Stone II project. There was a standing-room only crowd at the PUC hearing on January 10 in Ortonville. All kinds of different people spoke out against the project, but students were particularly eloquent in their desire for a better, cleaner energy future than Big Stone II would provide. After all, they are the ones who will have to live with the project’s nasty effects, long after the current decision makers are dead. The students and other members of the public were there again at an evidentiary hearing on January 23 even though the rules weren’t going to allow them to speak. I understand that enough of them came that the hearng had to be moved to a larger room. The lesson of all of this is an old one: together we are strong.

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