Contacting Your Representitives
Having your voice heard is the most important step that you can take towards saving our community and Ixonia's future. Our county supervisors need to hear from you and how your family will be impacted.
When writing to the county:
Focus on their complete disregard of the Agricultural Preservation and Land Use Plan. Both Ixonia and Jefferson county have invested years of taxpayer money in planning to keep our communities safe, beautiful, and protect our farmland and heritage. The commitment to farmland preservation in Jefferson County is extremely high, being an early leader in farmland reservation land use planning and zoning. This development goes against the core tenants of those plans.
Express your disapproval of the project in general.
WE Energies failure to do an adequate search for alternative locations, in a less populated or industrial area.
You should also add in anything that you would like to be included in the Joint Developer’s Agreement.
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You might ask for a risk management plan (updated every 5 years) detailing offsite impacts to residents and institutions.
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Compensation to landowners to provide their own buffers and screens.
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Screens around the road in addition to around the fencing (north road, hill road, gopher hill road) Ex: The Oak Creek plant has a 30' berm and acres of woodlands buffering the side from public view. That should be a minimum.
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Compensation for a decline in property values.
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Require that an environmental impact study be completed.
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Require that an independent expert review all WE Energies documents on public safety risk. Demand a Higher property tax revenue be paid by WE Energies. (Currently written they will pay 467.19/annually).
When writing to the Public Service Commission:
Focus on the safety
Use this document to guide your writing strategy.
When writing to Clean Wisconsin and Midwest Fish & Wildlife:
Focus on the endangered turtle inhabiting that area, whooping cranes, and endangered frogs.
When writing to State Representatives:
Focus on the need to avoid all new fossil fuel infrastructure per Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change as described in this Report,
If you're concerned, but new to letter writing, here are some prompts you can use to tell your story:
How close do you live to where the plant will be (North Rd. and Gopher Hill/Hill Rd.)? How do you feel about being within a legal explosion zone? Do you have a business nearby that may be impacted?
How do you feel about having such a dangerous facility so close to our elementary schools? Do you have children or grandchildren at that school? The Ixonia LNG storage facility would be the U.S.'s closest explosive facility located next to an elementary school.
How do you feel about losing 11% or more of your home equity? Your house will immediately drop in value as soon as the LNG facility is approved, and much more as it is built and our rural community turns into an industrial zone. How would this change in equity impact you.
Do you know that this proposal will not lower your taxes nor get you any gas? How do you feel about taking all of these risks with no tangible rewards so that city residents and a corporation can get rich off of our natural resources and hard-working community?
What do you love about Ixonia, and how does this proposal impact your views about living here? Many from our community moved here or have been lifelong residents because it is one of Jefferson County's most beautiful rural landscapes and vibrant communities. How would Ixonia changing into an industrial zone change that?
How do you feel about having an LNG facility be built on top of Ixonia's wetlands and agricultural lands by a company that has paid close to $1 billion in environmental fines? Are you on well water?
List of Important People to Contact:
Executive Committee members (who will be the first to act on the JDA)
Amy Rinard amyr@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 262-0892
Jim Braughler jamesb@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 342-4758
Conor Nelan conorn@jeffersoncountywi.gov (608) 516-4121
Mike Wineke michaelw@jeffersoncountywi.gov (608) 225-1624
Steve Nass steven@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 648-8513
All other county supervisors –
Richard Jones – richardj@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 478-3335
Mike Kelly – mikek@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 699-3658
Greg David – gregd@jeffersoncoutywi.gov (920) 988-5629
Augie Tietz – augiet@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 261-3740
Dan Herbst – danhe@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 261-9183
Dwayne Morris – dwaynem@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 246-4587
Lloyd Zastrow – lloydz@jeffersoncountywi.gov (262) 593-8945
Jeff Johns – jeffj@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920)285-2979
Jeff Smith – jsmith@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 699-2680
Anita Martin – amartin@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 285-6875
Kirk Lunk – kirkl@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 945-0017
Laura Payne – laurap@jeffersoncountywi.gov (608) 279-7173
Russell Kutz – russellk@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 674-5241
Brandon White – brandonw@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 650-0535
David Drayna – ddrayna@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 390-0304
Curtis Backlund – cbacklund@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 397-0843
John Kannard – johnk@jeffersoncountywi.gov (262) 495-4618
Blane Poulson – no email (262) 490-1175
George Jaeckel – georgej@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 563-9810
Roger Lindl – rogerl@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 723-5516
Matthew Foelker – matthewf@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 728-6669
Joan Fitzgerald – joanf@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 650-2119
Dick Schultz – dicks@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 650-1595
Mary Roberts – maryr@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 563-5343
Walt Christensen – waltc@jeffersoncountywi.gov (920) 723-1320
Everyone else:
Governor Tony Evers – Anthony.Evers@dpi.wi.gov
(608) 266-1212 or (414) 227-4344
P.O. Box 7863 Madison, WI 53707 or 819 N 6th St., Suite 560 Milwaukee WI, 53203
Chaitannya K. Agni chet.agni@wisconsin.gov (608) 843-4970
Lt Governor Mandela Barnes ltgov@ltgov.wi.gov (608) 266-3516
Sect DNR Preston Cole preston.cole@wisconsin.gov (608) 267-7556
State Senator Scott Fitzgerald – Sen.Fitzgerald@legis.wisconsin.gov (608) 266-5660
Assembly Representative John Jagler – Rep.Jagler@legis.wisconsin.gov (608) 266-9650
Wisconsin Dept Ag, Trade and Consumer Protection (608) 224-5012
Amber Meyer Smith- Clean Wisconsin asmith@cleanwisconsin.org
Carly Michiels (Clean Wisconsin cmichiels@cleanwisconsin.org
Katie Nekola Clean Wisconsin: knekola@cleanwisconsin.org
Ezra Meyer Clean Wisconsin emeyer@cleanwisconsin.org
Midwest U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Region 3) – MidwestNews@fws.gov (920) 866-1717
Field Office – Green Bay Sub-Office (GBSO): 2661 Scott Tower Drive, New Franken, WI 54229
Regional Office – 5600 American Blvd West Suite 990, Bloomington, Minnesota 55437-1458
