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DO YOU WANT THIS ON YOUR HORIZON?
345,000 VOLT TRANSMISSION CORRIDOR
3X HIGH AS ROCKTON BRIDGE
150 FT. SWATH THRU OUR FARMS, FORESTS, AND VALLEYS
TOWERING 100 FT. ABOVE OUR TREES
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Next SOUL Meeting May 22nd
SOUL of the Kickapoo meetings are usually held every other Tuesday, 6:30 pm, at Organic Valley HQ in La Farge. Contact SOUL to receive email meeting notices.
SOUL'S INFORMATIONAL BROCHURE |
DONATIONS to help fund our activities, publications, and events may be made to: SOUL of the Kickapoo, PO Box 146, La Farge, WI 54639 |
WHAT CAN I DO? |
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SUPPORTERS:
Valley Stewardship Network
Echo Valley Farm |
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SOUL yard signs and T-shirts are now available. Email SOUL to arrange to receive a sign or shirt.
SOUL of the Kickapoo publishes a newsletter
NEW! Important information
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Vernon County Broadcaster, July 27, 2011: ATC's Badger-Coulee Line is Unnecessary - Matt Johnson writes, "ATC can do a lot of things, but it can’t empirically prove that adding a 345 kV line, as is proposed in its Badger-Coulee Transmission Line, is necessary." Read the story.
KICKAPOO VALLEY RESERVE BOARD position paper opposing ATC's proposed transmission lines crossing the Kickapoo Valley Reserve.
SOUL HOLDS EDUCATION AND ACTION WORKSHOPS THROUGHOUT AREA
Contact SOUL to have a workshop for your group
Letter-Writing Pack
SOUL'S INFORMATIONAL BROCHURE
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Hillsboro Outreach |
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MONROE COUNTY BULLETIN:
Monroe County citizens can coordinate getting towns to adopt the PSC resolution. TRACK the towns' progress on getting the resolution on the agenda, recording upcoming meeting information, and coordinating constituents who wish to speak to the matter.
Monroe Cty. Towns' Resolution Progress
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The Other Open House
A bright sunny day attracted a steady stream of area residents to SOUL of the Kickapoo's "Other Open House" in Norwalk on April 26, held the same time as AmericanTransmission Company's open house in Norwalk, and designed to provide additional information to what ATC was offering.
The public heard about alternatives to the proposed high power corridor. Attendees received information on alternative energy, health and environmental effects, property values, energy efficiency, and other topics.
Wis. State Senator Jennifer Shilling expressed her support of alternatives and cited the possible effect the ATC proposal would have on agriculture and tourism. U.S. Senator Herb Kohl's La Crosse area representative, John Medinger, concurred.
A petition (see below) was available, and attendees were encouraged to take copies to distribute.
The public was invited to paint signs on which to display the familiar "Decline the Line" yard sign. They are all available by donation.
SOUL needs your financial support. Please join and donate generously.
SOUL of the Kickapoo, PO Box 146,
La Farge, WI 54639 |
PETITION FOR PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
(The above link takes you to the "Care2 Petitionsite" where organizations may publish their resolutions online and where petitioners may conveniently sign.)
Billions For Efficiency or Transmission? Midwest constituents who wish to speak, Ratepayers Deserve Options
The $9 billion the utilities want us to pay for huge electricity pipes THROUGH our beautiful state in order to expand their markets towards the east coast would be enough to buy over million 4kV solar systems for Wisconsin homes and make them mostly energy self-sufficient. Please take a minute to tell the PSC to wake-up and acknowledge that all US communities will be enjoying historically low growth rate for the next 25 years—not a need for high capacity grid expansion! Now is the time to invest in a future that will create jobs and energy self-sufficiency in our communities and not wrap them in high voltage tower debt. 6000 miles of high voltage transmission expansion with out any guarantee of reducing harmful carbon emissions. We need 10,000 signatures! Please send this link to your friends and and give the effort Facbook publicity too.
Please have your organization adopt the resolution at your next meeting and contact all of your members to consider signing this on-line petition.
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View or download
March 2012 newsletter
View or download
Feb. 2012 newsletter |
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December 17th was the date of the SOUL of Wisconsin annual meeting, held at Organic Valley HQ in La Farge, WI.
SOUL of Wisconsin is a +6,000 grassroots organization of which SOUL of the Kickapoo is a part.
Members of SOUL of the Kickapoo will be joining the board of the umbrella organization later this year.
SOUL'S INFORMATIONAL BROCHURE |
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HIGH VOLTAGE - The Big Picture
Stark Energy Committee offers an informative session explaining the process of electric corridor selection, the wholesale electric market, low-voltage alternatives, and other issues. They stress the importance of acting NOW to urge townships and other municipalities to adopt a resolution similar to Vernon County's (see below).
Citizen Post Cards for requesting Towns, Villages, County Brds. to adopt resolutions
Editable versions of the resolution
HIGH VOLTAGE - THE BIG PICTURE
Discussion topics include grid expansion versus routine maintenance, investment versus job creation, efficiency versus size, and environmental decisions. Committee members will report on the Midwest-ISO study, which calls for the addition of 17 high voltage transmission lines and a $25 billion price tag for electric customers. The Badger Coulee line, which could go through the Kickapoo Valley, is part of American Transmission Company's (ATC) preliminary proposal. This line would be part of a larger grid that would also include CapX2020 (Alma to north of La Crosse), Dubuque-Spring Green-Madison, and Kenosha-Zion, Madison-Central Illinois and Beloit-northern Illinois lines. EPIC's research indicates that these lines are designed to promote utility companies' sale of electric energy to eastern markets.
The committee also will examine ATC responses to three of the questions asked by citizens during EPIC’s spring program, and discuss resolutions being passed by towns and counties in the company’s “study area” of possible routes. The committee will take questions from the audience. Presentations were recently made in La Farge, Hillsboro, Westby, Richland Center, and Sparta.
Contact SOUL if you'd like this presentation scheduled in your community! |
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