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Campaign updates, press releases, and the record as it develops.
The line doesn’t touch Viroqua. The city opposed it anyway.
On August 25 the Viroqua Common Council voted 9 to 0 against the MariBell 765 kV line, the first city in Wisconsin on the record. The route skips the city; the resolution explains why that was never the point.
A 765 kV line was proposed, and it was never built
Episode 4: Keryn Newman of StopPATH WV on the line she and her neighbors fought for five years, the money they clawed back from ratepayers at FERC, and what she is watching now. Full transcript.
Did anybody in Wisconsin ask for this?
Episode 3: two days inside the developer’s open houses, with Jim, organizer Kris Brewer, and town of Scott clerk Donna Bell on what three proposed segments would do to a century farm. Full transcript.
Voices from Baraboo: episode 2 of “Not a Done Deal”
342 people signed in at the Baraboo Public Library; the room held 150. Five conversations recorded on the library steps afterward: landowners in the path, the organizers, and what happens before September 7.
On the record in De Soto: where five public officials stand on the 765 kV lines
For ninety minutes, five public officials answered landowner questions near De Soto — eminent domain, burying the lines, data centers, and how close they would live to one. Pull quotes from every guest, and what the official record shows.
Our new podcast, “Not a Done Deal”: episode 1 with Rob Danielson
Days after MGS mailed landowners and published 78 study segments, Michael Browne and Rob Danielson walk through the landowner punch list, the August 24–27 open houses, and the September 7 deadline.
Where the candidates stand
Ahead of the August 11 primary, every campaign for governor and for the 3rd Congressional District got the same written questions about the 765 kV line. Every answer we receive is published in full, unedited.
Richland County landowners meet Thursday on the proposed 765 kV BECI line
July 16 at the Phoenix Center: what the BECI segment could mean for properties and communities — and the short window for public input.
Paid even if it’s never built: BECI’s developers lock in their federal rate incentives
Before any route exists, FERC granted the developers cost-recovery incentives — including repayment even if the line is abandoned. Plus: an hour of plain talk on WRCO.
What lives in the path: mapping the wildlife a 765 kV line would cross
A new map shows what the proposed corridor would cross — a Mississippi flyway, cold-water streams, and federally protected wildlife — at a coarse, public scale.
On a Driftless ridge, experts walked the ground a 765 kV line would cross
Experts and neighbors walked the proposed corridor at a Driftless field day — and what the ground itself shows about the 765 kV line.
Opting out of unneeded utility expansion
Rob Danielson on the planning assumptions behind the 765 kV plan — and the buried HVDC alternative.
An energy group came to the Driftless — and landed on our questions
An MREA talk in Westby on rising bills, data centers, and what the 765 line is really for.
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