Consumer group asks utility regulators to halt 'bridge to nowhere'
CHRIS HUBBUCH
Updated
A worker clears trees Monday along the route of the Cardinal-Hickory Creek project south of Highway 14 near Cross Plains. Consumer advocates say utilities are proceeding "recklessly" on the planned transmission line from Dubuque, Iowa, to Middleton, in spite of a court order barring it from crossing the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.
An excavator clears ground Monday south of Highway 14 near Rocky Dell Drive in Cross Plains as work proceeds on the $492 million Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line, in spite of a court order preventing its completion.
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A worker clears trees Monday along the route of the Cardinal-Hickory Creek project south of Highway 14 near Cross Plains. Consumer advocates say utilities are proceeding "recklessly" on the planned transmission line from Dubuque, Iowa, to Middleton, in spite of a court order barring it from crossing the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge.
An excavator clears ground Monday south of Highway 14 near Rocky Dell Drive in Cross Plains as work proceeds on the $492 million Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line, in spite of a court order preventing its completion.
