HomeMy WebLinkAboutC_Public_Comment_18_180317From:Barbara Braun
To:Jill Ding
Cc:Barbara Braun
Subject:Comments on PSE"s Energize Eastside permit application
Date:Saturday, March 17, 2018 8:21:58 AM
Dear Ms. Ding,
I am writing to ask that the city NOT approve PSE's application to build Energize Eastside.
The responses to the comments I submitted during the Phase 1 EIS are inadequate and
indicates the permits for this project should be denied.
My concerns and questions raised in the EIS are not answered. Answers to questions provided
by PSE and the EIS development team use old fashion, out dated data and biased studies to
justify an old fashion, unjustified, unsafe, high cost, oversized “solution” to a non-existent
“problem.” Alternative 2 is a far superior solution and PSE fails to adequately analyze that
solution.
1. The FEIS and permit applications continue to outsize the need for this project and fails
to use current data and analysis to size future demands and corner case use scenarios.
MANY other utilities, including BPA, are stepping up to the reality that the world has
changed and better solutions exist. The “traditional transmission solution” proposed by
PSE is not the best, cheapest or safest solution for delivering reliable energy. PSE fails
to adequately study Alternative 2.
2. The proposed solution is not prudent on any front - cost, reliability, safety or
environment, and should not qualify for rate payer increases to fund it. Alternative 2 is
far superior.
3. The current solutions fails to address in our local or national security and leaves us
highly vulnerable to malicious disruption. Alternative 2 is far superior.
4. The current solution fails to use modern best practices in evaluating the value of carbon
sequestration and climate control services of our existing tree canopy. It is climate-
future irresponsible. Alternative 2 is far superior.
5. The proposed Energize Eastside solution leaves vulnerable citizens and students in high
danger due to proximity to the aging Olympic pipeline. The FEIS fails to employ
modern best practices in evaluating the danger and does not use modern spacing
standards for safe co-location of transmission to pipeline. Just because we violate
modern best practices with the current installed base of transmission lines, does not
mean we should continue and further escalate the risk of a pipeline accident.
6. Further the cities and PSE fail to propose adequate preparation for how to respond to
pipeline accidents and leaves the citizens vulnerable to fatalities and severe property
damage/destruction in the case an accident occurs.
Please notify me when any Bellevue public hearing for this project is announced.
Sincerely,
Barbara Braun
13609 SE 43rd Place
Bellevue WA 98006