UKIAH, CA., 7/14/26 — The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission took its public comment period on the Potter Valley Project in Ukiah over two days in June. Comments were made in private, behind a closed door. Press was barred and recording forbidden. The transcripts of those comments were released Monday, 20 days after the first session, over 43,000 words, more than 70 speakers.
Southern California came first. “My name is Chance Edmondson,” one opens, “and I’m with the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District.”
Edmondson is a director on that district’s board and its vice president. He was among the first people to put a word into the federal environmental record on whether PG&E should be allowed to surrender its license for the century-old Potter Valley Project and pull out Scott and Cape Horn dams…