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Environmental groups and residents press FSEC for fuller review, call hearing premature
Summary
At an FSEC informational and land‑use hearing on the Cascade Renewable Transmission Project, environmental groups, tribal representatives and residents urged a full environmental impact statement, said the publicly posted application is a draft and argued the hearing was premature or inadequately noticed.
Speakers from Columbia Riverkeeper, Friends of the Columbia Gorge, the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission and local residents used FSEC’s public informational meeting to press two core concerns: that the application materials are incomplete or explicitly labeled "draft," and that the project’s shoreline and nearshore routing requires fuller environmental analysis (including a possible EIS).
"This is a draft application that is not ready for prime time," said Nathan Baker, senior staff attorney with Friends of Columbia Gorge, and told the council he believes FSEC should not have scheduled hearings on draft materials. Columbia Riverkeeper repeated that the application lacks…
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