By Dan Happel and Leonard Wortman, Madison and Jefferson County Commissioners — Most everyone agrees that our wide open spaces, working farms and ranches, small towns, and abundant fish and wildlife all contribute immeasurably to a quality of life that is the envy of the nation.
It’s not surprising then, that when a development project is proposed that could affect all of these important assets, citizens are deeply concerned. The Mountain States Transmission Intertie, or “MSTI” transmission line, is a high profile case in point… The desire to base decisions on objective, independent information, collected and analyzed in a transparent way, was the reason that the MSTI Review Project was created…