"Project Order and Idaho Route Meeting"

In response to a request for a meeting concerning our reservations about the outcome of the mostly-Oregon mapping, we have been invited to meet with Idaho Power officials Monday, November 30th, 4-8 p.m. at the Community House of Kirkpatrick Church in Parma, Idaho.

Please RSVP Kara Veit at (208) 377-9688 if you want to attend this meeting.

Meeting objectives:
• Discuss the Oregon Department of Energy’s Boardman to Hemingway Project Order
• Discuss the (presumptive?) project area and proposed routes in Idaho

4:00 p.m.
Welcome and introductions
• Welcome – Kent McCarthy, Idaho Power, CAP Project Leader
• Introductions and agenda – Rosemary Curtin, facilitator
4:10 p.m.
Project Order – Adam Bless, Oregon Department of Energy
• Overview
• Questions and answers
5:10 p.m.
Boardman to Hemingway project area – Dave Angell, Idaho Power
6:10 p.m.
Dinner
6:30 p.m.
Presentations and discussion with:
• Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) – Idaho representative
• U.S. Forest Service (USFS) – Idaho representative – (Tentative)
• BLM recently participated in three panel discussions for the CAP. (Correspondence from the BLM is available for reference.)
7:30 p.m.
Next steps

Adam Bless of the Oregon Department of Energy will present information on the Project Order, which encourages Idaho Power to route an Idaho corridor as a valid solution to the problems of routing through Oregon. We understand that the ODOE itself does not choose the route, but the Energy Facility Siting Council has the power to deny what routes are proposed across Oregon.

More importantly, it is the disregarding of our requests for information and meetings providing for even-handed mapping of Idaho routes, (as in IPC's original Treasure Valley Electrical Plan loop around the greater Boise area, including the proposed Gateway West south corridor,) that has us wondering why all Idaho routes have been jettisoned in favor of ANY viable alternative through Oregon.

We hope these concerns will be addressed Monday evening.