PUC Accommodates Farmers -- Much Appreciated

Listening to the PUC hearings on the TransCanada pipeline this afternoon, I am heartened to hear the commission accommodating the landowners as best they can. Coming back from an afternoon break, attorney John Smith, who is chairing the hearing, reopened the session by announcing that he had heard a number of the landowners who have come to testify have expressed the need to get back home to take care of livestock (and when the temperature is in the single digits, as it is today, that's all the more important). He asked one fellow on the agenda if he would mind ceding his spot and allowing those who have to get back to the farm to come forward with their testimony first. The PUC wants to hear all the testimony, they are cognizant of the hardship folks have undertaken to come to Pierre to testify, and they are trying to be decent neighbors and civil servants. We appreciate that.