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. … Janet Johnson drove down from Laytonville with a friend who had come to testify, and spent the evening where the public was made to spend it — in the waiting room, outside the closed door, unable to hear any of it. She was blunt about who she thought was on the other side of that door. They were “carpetbaggers scamming our water,” she told The Voice. As it turns out, according to the written testimonies, almost nobody disagreed with her. They just couldn’t agree on anything else.