Updates
Oct 21st Port mayor proclamation
Tuesday’s Port Washington common council meeting was held at the Holiday in Express to accommodate a larger audience and news teams. Below is the proclamation put forth by the mayor. Below that are links to news coverage of the meeting.
Donations Sought
Taking legal action to protect our interests will be costly. We will have to hire lawyers and consultants to help us develop our strategies and possibly litigate these issues. We have formed an LLC for the Protect Fredonia Coalition and have opened a bank account. We have been receiving donations from members of our community, with deep and sincere appreciation. If you would like to donate to support our cause, and our opposition to the power lines, please write a check to “Protect Fredonia LLC” Please send us a message or give us a call for check drop off details at this point in time.
Thank you for your support of this important cause!
-PFC
Saukville Cancels Meeting
The October 22nd meeting that was called for by Saukville has now been canceled by Saukville.
Columbus Day and…
Today is also Indigenous Peoples' Day, honoring the First Nations. Please take action today to protect and preserve the sacred effigy mounds, burial sites, viewshed, and other archaeological assets of Indigenous Peoples along the Milwaukee River corridor from destruction by the extra high-voltage power lines that would transmit massive amounts of electrical power to the proposed data center in Port Washington. Protect Fredonia!
Public Hearing Oct 16 - Data Center
Attend these meetings and make your concerns over the data center plan heard once again by the officials of Port Washington.
Port Washington Common Council meeting.
Yesterday’s October 7th Common Council meeting at the City of Port Washington had a successful turnout of community members in opposition of the data center. Many news media outlets were in attendance. See below for links to coverage. Thank you to everyone who showed up to voice your concern!
Riveredge Oct 15th, data center discussion
Registration is required for attendance. Click here for details.
Coalition meeting reflection
On behalf of the coalition I want to say thank you to everyone who attended tonight’s meeting at the Fredonia government center. We think it went well, and we’re glad to see the audience engaging in questions and discussion. We are grateful for your showing up, showing interest in this cause, and also for your monetary donations. Our greatest power in this is in coming together.
CBS 58 was in attendance and ran a story on the 10:00pm news. Link here
Application filed with PSCW
As of today ATC has filed the application for the Ozaukee County Distribution Interconnection Project. It can be found here. This is a cost/environmental/social analysis of the various routes and combination of routes proposed. Nothing conclusive has been decided at this point.
Questions
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE POWER LINES:
Because ATC declined to meet with the community to answer our questions, we have submitted the list of questions posted below about the power lines to ATC and its counsel. If you have additional questions, please send them to: protectfredoniacoalition@gmail.com.
If ATC answers our questions, we will post the answers here on the Protect Fredonia Coalition website. Thank you.
ATC Declines to meet with local community to answer questions
As you know, we are planning to host a “next steps” meeting on Tuesday, September 30, at the Government Center in Fredonia, at 6pm, to discuss the Power Line Proposal by ATC. As many of you are aware, we invited ATC to participate in this meeting, in order to give them an opportunity to answer the many questions coming from our community.
On September 24, we were informed that ATC WILL NOT MEET WITH US ON SEPTEMBER 30 TO ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS.
In view of this, we have sent them all the questions gathered from our community to date and requested that they provide us written responses before our meeting. We will update you at the meeting as to what we hear from ATC
Next Steps Meeting Sep. 30th
If you have questions you’d like addressed at the meeting please drop a comment below. We’ll make sure they are included in the discussion.
Washington County Insider Article
Our neighbor just down the street in Washington County, who will also be affected by the power lines, was recently featured in an article in the Washington County Insider. Link Here
Town of Fredonia Resolution
7:30pm, on September 10th the Fredonia Government Center was packed with residents interested in halting the proposed power lines. A number of members from our coalition spoke, including Joseph Gromacki, Patti Plough, Jacqui Fulcomer, Trish Binkowski, and Angeline Desotelle. They spoke on the multitude of negative impacts that these lines will have on the community as well as individual residents. Without objection the board passed a resolution opposing new high voltage transmission lines in the Town of Fredonia. While this resolution is a non binding agreement, it does show support for the people of Fredonia by the board members of the town, and we do appreciate the endorsement! The full resolution document can be downloaded here.
In addition channel 4 news was present and ran a piece on their 10 o’clock news of that evening. Details of the piece can be found here.
Neighborhood Meeting
On August 25th a neighborhood meeting was held to discuss the plans of the ATC and its impact on our neighborhood. About 65 people were in attendance.