Federal judge temporarily halts Cardinal-Hickory Creek high-voltage transmission line construction over environmental concerns.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the construction of a $649 million clean-energy transmission line called the Cardinal-Hickory Creek high-voltage line. The 102-mile project would cross the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge in Wisconsin. Environmental groups, including the National Wildlife Refuge Association, the Driftless Area Land Conservancy, and the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, sued the US government to block the land swap, claiming that federal approvals violated the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act. The project's developers, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative, maintain that the land swap would improve the quality of the refuge and increase its total area.
March 22, 2024
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