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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSutton-Glennallen Newspaper 1994C° fag Q Quality Services (907) 274-1056 Dae MAR 2 3 1994 Frontiersman Client No_4#20 A Drop the intertie C4LS YracoA BSIerl Editor, Top 10 reasons why the Sutton-to-Glennallen electrical intertie proposal should be dropped: 1. To preserve the natural integrity of the Tal- keetna Mountains. 2. Because it is dripping in fat — pork fat! 3. Because the feasibility study show there is a better way — hydroelectricity. 4. Petro Star’s projected load growth does not substantiate the need for it. 5. Bulldozers have bad breath! 6. Capital cost estimates are underrated in nu- merous areas. ‘ 7. Because I, too, want a $35-million, zero-inter- est, loan like Copper Valley Electric Authority. 8. Unacceptable environmental impacts. 9. Two words — red ink! 10. To make Wally and Ramona really, really mad! Write or call you legislators today. _ Tim Lengerich Palmer AIDEA 182 vadlv 201 (907) 274-1056 5, AUB 18 1994 COPPER RIVER COUNTRY JOURNAL Client No. 424 Lawsuit Filed To Stop Intertie 210E Yy20Rn ANCHORAGE-An "administrative appeal" was filed in Anchorage on August 5th by anti- intertie groups in another effort to block the proposed Sutton-to-Glennallen Electrical In- tertie. THE "NOTICE OF APPEAL" was filed in the State Superior Court by Alaska Citizens for Responsible Energy Devel- opment, Inc., Chickaloon Community Council, Alpine Civic Club/Sutton Community Council, Alaska Center for the Environment, National Outdoor Leadership School and Trustees for Alaska. Named as the "appellees" in the suit are Edgar Blatchford and the State of Alaska, Depart- ment of Community & Regional Affairs. The group, which goes under the name of "ACRED" in the lawsuit, appeals Blatchford's decision to authorize funding for the design and construction of the Intertie and the related decision to proceed with the development of a loan agreement. THE LAWSUIT LISTS 11 reasons that it thinks the DCRA's decision to fund the Intertie was wrong. The charges go all the way from an attack on the feasibility study itself to claiming that the Intertie "will impede the reservation to the people for the common use of fish & wildlife" and "because the intertie will produce electro-magnetic fields which endanger the public health and welfare." DICK EMMERMAN, from the Department of Community & Regional Affairs and the Division of Energy told the Country Journal that, "at this time the Division is continu- ing to work on a loan application for 35 million dollars...Cand) we are reviewing it." IIe said that the Division is preparing a record of the "agency file" on all of its records about the Intertie. He said that they had been give 40 days from August 9th in which to prepare the file. He indicated that it was a long and complicated process and they might have to file for an extension. He said that the court would have to decide who pays for the costs of the work being done. (907) 274-1056 Date AUG 19 Frontiersman Client No. goo4 Join ACRED Editor: oe Travel the Glenn Highway, stop at an establishment along the highway and as how people feel about the Sutton-Glen- nallen intertie. You are likely to get the same response from whoever you ask. “It’s a bad project, a waste of state money.” “We don’t want it built, and we will fight the project every step of the way.” By approving this project, Gov. Walter Hickel and E Bar Blatchford have only made the people of this aréa more deter- mined to arn against its construction. Mr. Blatchford traveled up and down the highway and visited with business people and individuals before he “made his deci- sion.” Evidently, what he heard, saw and read (even in the state’s own study) did not make an impression on him. Evidently, his political aspirations are more important than standing up to the governor and the Speaker of the House. The $35 million of state monies could cer- tainly be used more effectively to improve roads, upgrade schools or to increase the level of municipal matching funds to re- lieve the burden of local taxpayers. If this project is built, we will all lose. The people of Glennallen and Valdez will not see the price of their power reduced. The people of the Glenn aaperey will have sacrificed the Matanuska River Valley to a roject that will scar our homes and ma e obsolete within 25-30 years. We will all have to face’ higher electric bills to pay for the cost overruns which are certain to occur with this project. Recently, ACRED (Alaska Citizens for Responsible Energy Development) filed a lawsuit to fight this project. ACRED has ous by er all the communities along the Glenn Highway as well as environmen- talists, conservationists and special interest roups as plaintiffs in this case. They ACRED) are a group that is concerned not only with the intertie issue but also with the misappropriation of state funds for a project that the state’s own feasibility study did not endorse. Well, now the courts can decide. Perhaps ACRED and all the other concerned folks in this area have a better chance in court than we did with the politicians. You see, we didn’t make our political contributions big enough or to the right people. If you are concerned, find out where the politi- cians you support stand on this issue and join ACRED in its fight to keep this project from being built. Nancy Bertels Sutton AIDEA 108 Services Q (907) 274-1056 pee SEP 15 1994 COPPER RIVER COUNTRY JOURNAL Client No. 42 A How Dear Country Journal, 17°7 2/¢& 1 was trying to imagine some scenario that might help folks in the Copper River Basin better understand the opposi- tion to the Intertie project by residents of Sutton, Chickaloon, and Glacier View. Consider a fictitious proposed transporta- tion corridor financed with state and federal dollars. Following legislation passed in Juneau 2 years ago, the Matanuska Valley Transportation Utility recently got the go-ahead to proceed with an 80 mile long alteration and improvement of the Glenn Highway. The Commissioner of Transportation's approval of the project followed an economic feasibility study that showed that transportation alternatives exist that cost less and still provide for improved access to the Matanuska Valley from the Alaska Highway and other portions of eastern Alaska. Ap- proval for the project comes in spite of the overwhelming opposition of Glennallen residents and others along the old Glenn Highway route who will have to live with the negative economic, social, and environmental side-effects of the new highway. The increasingly angry opponents of the Eureka- Gakona Highway Intertie have recently organized, calling themselves Alaska Citizens for Responsible ‘lransportation Development (ACRTD), and initiated legal action in an attempt to stop the project that is routed 10 miles north of Glennallen. The Glennallen Community Council and other concerned organizations have joined ACRTD and are determined to stop the project that will significantly impact their community. The The Shoe Might Fit The Other Foot Matanuska Valley Transportation Utility presses on with their plans despite the legal action and profess a willingness to compromise by altering the preferred route by moving it one mile north or south of the current route. ‘The Matanuska Valley ‘Transportation Utility states it is sympathetic to the concerns of Copper Valley residents but the construction of the Intertie is necessary for the economic well-being of the Matanuska Valley and will do everything possible to limit the side-effects of the Intertic. Alaska Citizens for Responsible Transportation Devel- opment from the Copper River Basin argue that the feasibility study is awed, that the Intertie is not economically sound, that this is a pork-barrel project, that their concern have been given only token acknowledgment, that their way of life will be altered for the worse, and only people who reside outside the Glennallen area think that the Intertie is a good idea. Oppo- nents to the Intertic are determined to stop it while the board of directors of the Matanuska Valley Transportation Authorily continue their plans to build the Intertie. This bit of fiction is hastily written and incompletcly thought out, but perhaps you get a better idea of how the shoe might fit on the other foot. Warren J. Keogh Chickaloon EDITOR'S NOTE: This letter has been shortened. AIDEA 105 (907) 274-1056 Dare NOV 0 2 1994 Tundra Times Client No. Y2eA Sutton Inter-tie not needed by Chris Rose 4204 402- Mat-SuGreens 7/7© ‘The Sutton-Glennallen electricintertie would be a power transmission line running from Sutton through the Matanuska Valley approximately 130 miles to Glennallen. The 80-100 foot towers would move electricity generated by Anchorage utilities to the customers of the Copper Valley Electric Association (CVEA) in Glennallen and Valdez. In July the Hickel Administration approved a $35 million, no-interest state loan to CVEA for the intertie. The intertie has become an issue of primary concern for people living on or near the Glenn Highway from Sutton to Sheep Mountain. Resi- dents are concerned that not only will scenic areas 2 marred, but wildlife populations will also likely suffer from the increased access the intertie right- of-way and associated roads will create. Locals are also concerned about potential exposure to cancer- causing electro-magnetic fields (EMF's) that would radiate from the powerline. Before the official decision was made to pro- ceed with construction, opponents testified at public meetings, held a demonstration in Anchor- age, and wrote letters to the Governor, the legisla- ture and the newspapers. Despite the near-unani- mous opposition to the project from residents in the Matanuska Valley, the state came down on the side of Petro Star oil refinery in Valdez, and other private interests that would benefit from the con- struction of the powerline. Gadel The state's decision to build the intertie is incredible, given the fact that their feasibility study shows that the intertie is not going to reduce the electric rates of Copper Basin residents. Instead, the study concludes that the proposed Allison Lake hydro-project near Valdez would produce cheaper electricity at a lower capital cost than the intertie.. It also demonstrates that it is very unlikely that CVEA's demand will increase enough over the next 50 years to enable it to repay either the $35 million to the state, or the $25 million the utility must borrow from the federal Rural Electrification Administration (REA) to complete the $60 mil- lion project. The state of Alaska has committed to spend- ing millions of dollars it can not afford dn a project that would pump electricity generated from gas produced on the west side of Cook Inlet at the Beluga fields near Anchorage nearly 300 miles to Valdez, a city with perhaps more fossil fuel co- generating opportunities than any in North America. Our response has been to organize Alaska Citizens for Responsible Energy Development (ACRED). ACRED is organizing people around the state who think Alaska's energy needs should be met with the least cost to the consumer, and the least adverse impact to the social and physical environment. In August, ACRED joined with several other citizen and environmental groups to challenge, in Anchorage Superior Court, the state's decision to build the intertie To join or learn more about ACRED call 745-6000 or 745-7000. If you would like to contribute to ACRED 'slitigation fund please send checks to: ACRED, P.O.B.100875, Anchorage, AK 99510. (907) 274-1056 ow NOV 2 3 1994 Anchorage Daily News Client No. Yre Copper Valley power line off until loan issue resolved AIOR 430A 3Co2 0320 By PETER S. GOODMAN Daily News reporter . A federal judge has halt- ed, at least temporarily, | the controversial power line Copper Valley Electric Association wants to build from Sutton to Glennallen with $35 million in state funds. The legislature set aside e money last year for an interest-free loan to help build the line. But on Mon- ‘chorage-based aay federal Judge Russel : Holland issued an injunc- tion barring the state from giving Copper Valley any money before an ongoing lawsuit seeking to invali- date the loan is resolved. The judge’s ruling came in a suit filed by an An- company called Alaska Cogeneration Systems Inc. The company wants to build a coal-fired electrical generating plant in Valdez and use ‘waste heat produced by the coal ° to heat buildings there. The suit claims the Valdez project could be built for $27 million, would save millions of galions of heat- ing oil a year and would make the intertie unneces- sary. ; The-use of waste heat is the key element in the Alaska Cogeneration pro- posal. The company argues that, under a federal law designed to encourage ener- gy .conservation, Copper Valley would be compelled to buy coal-fired plant. The two sides are arguing in front of the Alaska Public Utili- ties Commission over how much that power would cost. Copper Valley Electric Association serves some 8,000 customers in’ Valdez power from the . and the Copper River Val- ley. The cooperative now relies on aging diesel gen- erators and a hydroelectric project at Solomon Gulch, near Valdez. Its customers are paying about twice as much for power as Railbelt consumers. Copper Valley says the power line, or intertie, is the best way to cut costs or Please see Page B-3, POWER POWER: Ruling halts Copper Valley intertie SIOQ Y20fA 302 C32 Continued from Page B-1 at least keep them from rising. The line would al- low Copper Valley to tap into the Railbelt’s vast en- ergy supply. The bulk of that power comes from the Beluga natural gas plant and the Bradley Lake hy- droelectric dam. _ The Hickel administra- tion approved the loan for the power line earlier this year, despite a state study suggesting it might not be the cheapest way to meet Copper Valley’s needs. The project is opposed by many residents in the Matanuska Valley who fear it will mar the scenery and carve a corridor through the Tal- keetna Range backcountry. Robert Wilkinson, a manager at Copper Val- ley’s Glennallen office, said Tuesday that he had yet to see ‘‘a detailed, well- documented, credible pro- posal,’’ for a coal-fired - plant. He reaffirmed Cop- per Valley’s long-held posi- tion that no alternative project can supply power as cheaply as the intertie. Alaska Cogeneration says that’s only so if the intertie is subsidized. Take away the state’s interest- free loan and the coal-fired project could easily pro- duce power more cheaply, the company claims. “The state and Copper Valley have been conspir- ing to keep power costs artificially low to prevent us from entering the mar- ket place,’’ said Alaska Co- generation's president, Frank Bettine. Whether that claim can be substantiated in court remains to be seen. But Judge Holland ruled that until the question is re- solved, no state money can go toward the intertie. Q Quality Services (907) 274-1056 Dat NOV 2 3 1994 SITKA SENTINEL Client No._¢490 4 Assembly Looks at Ca FIOM 39S" den 302. “Gayo 2710 422A By HEATHER MacLEAN _, Sentinel Staff Writer be view the-packet at a regular meeting next month after Paxton makes sug- Final design ‘and site devélopmént~: gested changes.“ "~-~ of the proposed municipal public ser- vices center tops the list of a draft capital improvement project request the city will submit to the governor and Legislature. The city has requested funding in fiscal year 1996 for. nine capital im- rovement projects, including refur- ishing the Swan Lake Senior Center and the Centennial Building, that total $13.8 million. The city is asking the state to foot $2.1 million of the $8.8 million bill for the first eight projects. The $5 mil- lion price tag of the ninth project, a new cruise ship lightering facility, was not broken down into state and local contributions. “‘T think we'd be fortunate to get beyond the first four,’’ said City Ad- ministrator Gary Paxton. The City and Borough Assembly teviewed the list at a work session Prior to the regular Assembly meeting Tuesday night. The Assembly will re- Present at the sion were Assembly Hallgren, Anne Morrison; Perkins, Dick Smith, Stan Fill Mayor Rocky Gutierrez. Denn Rogers was absent and excused. 3 The total cost of the public services center, the top priority, is $6.5 mil- lion, but the city is requesting $500,- y work ses- bers Pete Keith d 000 for design and development. The facility will be used by the school dis- trict and city maintenance depart- ments, the municipal public works, electrical and police departments and the state Department of Transporta- tion. Preliminary site preparation’ is al- ready under way, and the city expects to finish the work by 1998, depending on funding, the CIP packet states. “Final design work will identify Staging so the project can be con- structed as funding becomes avail- able,” it says. . Second on the city’s CIP list is a request for $75,000 to upgrade the re- strooms at Moller Park and Crescent “Park to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Total cost of the project is $107,000. 7 “The restrooms will also be refur- bished to better serve the public,’’ the packet states. The city’s third priority is $280,000 to refurbish and upgrade the Swan Lake Senior Cénter. The scope of the increased storage, a walk-in refrigerator, replacement of floor coverings, i drainage improvem pair and improving physically challenged. Total “roe is $400,000. \ fourth priority, which will.cost $571,000, is a remodel of the Centen- ss for the nial Building in two components. The, city is requesting $400,000 from the state. The first part is comprised of three improvements, including renovating the exhibit room so it can be used as one or two private meeting rooms, remodeling the kitchen to provide suf- pital Projects List ficient space to are a banquet, and Scpletion 40 floor devel windows with safety glass to meet code.-"~~ - The second part is to expand the Maksoutoff Room so that it can ac- commodate 150 seats, up from the current 85. nals “This project is important for Sit- ka’s effors Caan the impacts of the Alaska Pulp Corp. mill closure,’’ the packet states. ‘‘The project will increase the community’s capabilities to host conventions, and these up- des are required in order for Sit- *s major public meeting facility to effectively compete with other com- munities.”’ Hallgren suggested the Centennial Building renovation be moved to the third priority because more people use the meeting hall than use the Senior \.Center, but no other Assembly mem- ber agreed. He questioned the center's need of a walk-in refrigerator. Improving the Centennial Building, he pointed out, would allow the city to increase its economic diversity be- Continued on Pace 10 mn > Continued from Page 1 cause i d help the Sitka Conven- tion an itors Bureau attract more Conve uv. “I think that is real economic de- velopment,” he said. Smith, on the other hand, said both Projects are necded, but the senior center upgrade has a better chance of passing a number of groups lobby for seniors and the seniors themselves are active advocates. “It's motherhood and apple pie, for onc thing,”* he said. ‘They camp out in the public works office to get these improvements done. ee eee ‘I put my senior citizens first, Pete, ° not the conventions.”* The fifth priority, one that Paxton is skeptical about being funded, is re- placement of an interior refi lin- ing in one of the municipal incinerator units. One unit will be replaced this year, but matching assistance is needed to replace a second, said Public Works Director Larry Harmon. The total cost is $286,000, and the city is asking that the state pay $200,000 of it. The sixi ject will cost $364,- 000, $255,000 of which would come from the state, and is to control “‘cor- rosion of municipal drinking water.” The work is to bring the city into compliance with the Environmen- tal Protection Agency’s Lead and Rule. municipal water must be treated to reduce its corrosivity,"” the packet explains. ‘‘The corrosive na- ture of Sitka’s water results in lead and entering drinking water from the corrosion of household plumbing. This treatment will reduce xpoee of users to this source of The treatment must be in operation by 1997, according to EPA regula- tions, Smith stressed that the city’s water cot ainied, The problem is in the ipes used in many local obser pila The seventh priority is to build re- stroom facilities at Sandy Beach. The . cost is $129,000, of which $90,000 would come from the state. The eighth priority is improving the city’s sewer system to enable it to handle heavy rain storms. ‘*This is an ongoing project with no scheduled completion time,”’ the packet states, Cost of the project is $429,000 and the city is requesting the state pay $300,000 of it. The final project is a new cruise ship lightering facility, which will cost about $5 million. The state’s con- tribution, assuming the city paid 30 percent of the bill, would be $3.5 mil- ion, Paxton said the project is still in its preliminary es and he does not expect it to be funded in the next fis- Gutierrez made few comments about projects contained in the packet, but he did say he thought the informa- tion was too detailed. “I wouldn't give them more infor- mation than they need,”’ he said, not- ing that if legislators want more de- tails, Paxton can easily provide them, Also included in the packet is a list of four things the state can do for Sit- .” ka to help it recover from the closure of the Alaska Pulp Corp. mill. The city is asking for forgiveness of Authority loan made to the city in August of 1982. Balance of the loan is $12.5 million service is $800,000. The city is also asking the state to e ~ district's le; provide an additional $2 million for the Thomsen Harbor exy ~_n. The state provided $2.6 millic the in- ner harbor expansion it, uu fiscal year. “The aaron state fone aa permit Project to be comp! without Sitka having to issue revenue bonds,”’ the packet states. The third request is for $1.4 million to allow the University of Alaska Southeast, Sitka Campus to complete construction on an addition that would include classrooms and a science lab- oratory. The fourth’ project, with.a price ta; OF STS MLGt sai tbeade OF the Blue Lake Emergency Power Genera- tor. leo in Bee ace 8 ist of ace ital vement projects it School District is [ooking to have funded. The district has already sub- aed ie Ese Oleie Dever micas (OF jucation, which prioritized projects from around the state. The first project, a $7.2 million renovation of Sitka High School, is listed 24th on a DOE of 92 and has a good chance of being tuxied, said Superintendent John Ho! ‘The second project is a $1.4 million renovation of Baranof Elementary School, which is listed 31st on the DOE list. The third project, with a price tag of $1 million, is the first toward expanding the Baranof Elementary School and closing the Mt. Edge- cumbe Elementary School. Buf the project is 72nd out of 78 on the DOE’s school construction grant fund list and has little chance of being funded, said Holst. The packet also covers the city and gislative priorities, The school district’s first request is that the Legislature revise the founda- tion formula it uses to determine fund- ing levels for public schools. The state fi the cost of deliver- ing education in Sitka at the same lev- el it does for Anchorage, but it is much more expensive to educate chil- dren here, Holst pointed out. Another problem, he said, is that the unit value, now $61,000, has in- creased only 1.7 it since the state began using the formula, and during that time the cost of living has increased by 25 percent. “The unit value must be increased this year,’” the packet states, Other priorities are the Sitka Coop- erative Education Project and improv- ing the technological infrastructure in the town, which includes installing a fiber-optic network. ce issues Eetby te | ity include support for jan reallocation of marine fuel lax revenue to municipally funded ee for females y and im- harbors, building a at the Public Safety proving Alaska Marine Highway Sys- eng ih 1 “Sitka receives approximate! one-third the service tha the mucl smaller communities of Petersburg and Wrangell receive from mainline ferries during the summer months, and about one-half the level of main- line service they receive in winter,’ the packet states. The city is asking for three south- . bound and three northbound sailings each week during the summer, and reasonable connections to Belling- ham, Prince Rupert and Haines. nly added ferry slop to Sten for cent a ferry stop to Sitka for the 1995 summer, but the service will still be inadequate, —— a Q Qualuy Services i Secey Sececese (907) 274-1056 NOV 3.0 1994 Dai ——Erontiersman Client No.__4 a4 Judge halts state loan for intertie 210€ ¥20A 30 By STEVE KADEL Frontiersman associate editor Opponents of the controver- sial proposal to build a power line from Sutton to Glennallen have won a tempo victory. U.S. Federal District Court Judge Russell Holland has ae sued an injunction blockin $35 million state loan t at would fund much of the pro- ject. Known as the intertie, the power line would provide ser- vice to about 8,000 residential customers served by Copper Valley Electric Association (CVEA). The Department of Community and Regional Af- fairs (DCRA) authorized the in- terest-free sats loan last sum- mer, sa’ a uate plannin; had fae iy aia pros d wil the project. CVEA officials believe the in- tertie would significantly re- duce electric bills for residents in the area, who pay about twice what those on the Railbelt pay for electricity. But Frank Bettine, whose An- chorage-based Alaska Cogener- ation Systems Inc. (ACSI) filed a lawsuit to stop the project, says the intertie only looks cheaper because of the no-inter- est state loan. Bettine said ACSI could supply power more cost- effectively b using waste heat from a pe d electrical gen- erating plant it wants to build in Valdez. Aso in! IY) lap The potential costs of the two systems is the crux of the pend- ing court case. Judge Holland's recent raing pulls the plug on intertie until the lawsuit is re- solved. CVEA General Manager Clayton Hurless said this week the association was in the process of forming its response to the injunction. He declined to comment on the judge’s rul- ing: lowever, Hurless said Bet- Stay tine’s contention that the state loan is a subsidy masking inter- tie’s true cost “is an incorrect statement.” Bettine countered that inter- tie’s real price has been glossed over in the rush to approve the Project. “If you look at the study the state did, it never addressed in- tertie without the state loan,” Bettine said. “We were obvious- ly very pleased with the deci- sion of the judge. We think we have a strong case.” Resolving the lawsuit could take “a few months if we can negotiate some sort of deal with the state, or up to a year if it goes to trial,” Bettine added. He said the cogeneration pro- ject in Valdez could satisfy cur- rent and future energy needs of CVEA, and make oan of the intertie unnecessai would please many Mat Sa Val Val- See INTERTIE, Page A3 (907) 274-1056 pow DEC 04 1994 COPPER RIVER COUNTRY JOURNAL Client No. 204 Federal Judge Issues Temporary Injunction Stopping State From Releasing Intertie Money YIunA Btu ICE ANCHORAGE -Federal Judge Russell Hol- land has issued a temporary injunction, stopping the State of Alaska from execut- ing or funding the loan agreement with CVEA for building the Intertie from Sutton to Glennallen. THE MOTION for the injunction was filed by Alaska Cogeneration Systems, Inc. (ACSI). ACSI is a com- pany that has proposed building a coal-fired gener- ating plan in Valdez. The company says it would like to sell electricity to CVEA and sell heat to various agencies and city buildings in Valdez. Frank Bettine, who is ACSI's president, said that the company was forced to go to federal court because the Department of Community & Regional Affairs (DCRA) was getting ready to release $7 million in loan funds to CVEA. DICK EMERMAN, from DCRA, said the federal injunction issued on November 21st was a very short statement, that basically said, "...at this point we can not go forward and execute the loan." He said they expect a more detailed document from the courts soon. He also said that DCRA had been in the process of negotiating a loan agreement and that he thought, "...we were close to finalizing it." He said the proposed agreement with CVEA would have divided the loan into 2 phases. Phase I - with a loan limit of $7.3 million - would have allowed CVEA to complete the pre- construction phase, including right-of-way acquisi- tion, permits, approvals, and so forth. Phase II would have been for the actual construction. He said that the money would not have been advanced in a lump sum. WHETHER OR NOT ACSI will actually be able to convince the courts that they are really a viable alternative to the Intertie remains to be seen. How- ever, it is obvious that they have delayed the Intertie project. The real problem for CVEA with the delay may be the fact that DCRA will soon get a new Commissioner, and the Division of Energy may get a new director. If the new appointees are in favor of the Intertie, the situation won't change. But if the new commissioner is hostile to the idea of a Glennallen- to-Sutton Intertie, the delay caused by the injunction may have dealt the loan a fatal blow.