Environmental group examines impacts of proposed ATC power line

A Chicago environmental legal advocacy group is scrutinizing the Driftless Area west of Madison and the damage that could be done there with construction of a high-voltage American Transmission Company power line.

The ATC project would carry electricity from Dubuque County, Iowa, to Middleton along 500 steel towers, each one 10 to 15 stories tall.

The Environmental Law and Policy Center has led a number of successful advocacy campaigns designed to protect natural resources throughout the Midwest. In 2003, the group led the effort to get a court order that halted accelerated logging in Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, safeguarding 22,000 acres of forestland...

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Ken Notes: Our grid is based on an energy production and distribution plan from the early part of the 1900`s. We should sit down with all the players and rethink the next 100 years. Could solar, wind, bio, and co-gen, not to mention yet undiscovered production sources, change the grid in place and on the boards???