Minnesota Powerline Oral History Project: Interview with Virgil and Jane H. Fuchs

Titles: Minnesota Powerline Oral History Project: Interview with Virgil and Jane H. Fuchs (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: The Fuchs were farmers and protest leaders from Belgrade, Stearns County. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: How they learned about the line. Communicating with other farmers about the line. Preventing power company obtaining easements in Stearns County. Obtaining easements in Meeker County. Re-routing of line. Power Plant Siting Act - utilities being grandfathered out; choosing to come under act. Information hearings. Public hearings - corridor route; missing records; Citizen's Advisory Committee; routing of line; health hazards. Utilities projected energy needs. Working with legislators. Governor Perpich and the science court. The People's Power Project and Tesla's experiment being done on the Fuchs land. Federal lawsuit-reasons for filing; hope regarding outcome. Court injunction.

Dates

• 12/06/1977 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Fuchs, Virgil
• interviewee: Fuchs, Jane H.
• interviewer: Nelson, Edward P.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 25
• Accession Number: AV1988.180.11

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota Powerline Oral History Project' <OH 25>

Quantity: 3 hours sound cassette 40 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 150 minutes length

Subjects

Locations

• Name: Belgrade, Stearns County, Minnesota, United States

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