Legalectric

That chart above is the big takeway that you should tattoo on your eyelids. The actual price spike lasted a few days. Gas companies want to transfer this cost to us, and transfer higher costs over a MUCH longer period to us ratepayers.

Are you concerned about the big increase in natural gas bills that we’re seeing? Well, here’s what the Attorney General’s Office – RUD had to say about that:

AG’s Office tells gas utilities where to go! July 6th, 2021

In addition to the PUC’s umbrella “investigation” in docket G-999/CI-21-135 (to view filings, go HERE, scroll down to “docket number” and then plug in 21 (year) and 135 (docket).

Public (virtual) hearings are scheduled for March 6th:

Be there or be square!

Xcel Energy’s SEC 10-K is out for 2021:

… and of course, peak demand remains DOWN from the 9,859 high in 2007:

We all know that nuclear is the least economic means of generating electricity, and in addition, the CO2 emissions of the fuel cycle, fish entrainment, water temperature rise, and don’t forget about nuclear waste… but here we go, off on another nuclear promotion scheme:

CIVIL NUCLEAR CREDIT PROGRAM

And you can learn all about it, two webinars to choose from:

• February 28 from 10 a.m. to noon EST
• March 3 from 2 to 4 p.m. EST

SIGN UP FOR WEBINAR HERE

And some details from the Dept of Energy:

NOI and RFI Regarding Establishment of Civil Nuclear Credit Program

And we know Pres. Biden loves nuclear. Here’s Salem and Hope Creek from across the Delaware Bay from Port Penn, Delaware. Those plants are a nuclear economic disaster pushing hard for subsidies to transfer costs to ratepayers and taxpayers:

UPDATE ON SHOOTER BELOW

This is so obscene… killed at demonstration on Saturday, while “volunteering as part of a motorcade group working on traffic and logistics.”

Victim of deadly shooting at Normandale Park identified; witness says shooter fired ‘immediately’ on unarmed group

Also in the Oregonian:

June Knightly, who died in Normandale Park shooting, relished role of protecting Portland demonstrators

June Knightly: Tribute to Protester Shot in Portland

From LGBTQ Missing, Murdered, and Unidentified

A GoFundMe has been created for her and the injured victims: https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-portland “In the wake of tonight’s horrific events that occurred in Portland please donate to help us build funds to cover expenses for our wounded and fallen comrades. These funds will go to the people who were standing in solidarity with Amir Locke and Daunte Wright at the justice for Patrick Kimmons march.

We’ll see if this is correct, stay tuned:

Benjamin Jeffrey Smith AKA Polybun: Accused Portland Mass Shooter

Oregonian has reported he’s the suspect:

Portland man under suspicion in mass shooting fixated on city’s protests, homeless problem, neighbors and family say

Police are calling him a “homeowner” and he is not, no details on how he’s known to them, nothing about his reputation as rabid alt-right gun nut fixated with and spouting off about shooting people, they’re putting a dizzying spin on it, but it’s not going to work. Too many people know about Polybun!

UPDATE ON SHOOTER:

Alleged killer in Portland’s Normandale Park protest shooting identified

Judge’s Order filed that the civil suit against Donald J. Trump WILL go forward.

From the Order:

Plaintiffs’ common and primary claim is that Defendants violated 42 U.S.C. § 1985(1), a provision of a Reconstruction-Era statute known as the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. The Act was aimed at eliminating extralegal violence committed by white supremacist and vigilante groups like the Ku Klux Klan and protecting the civil rights of freedmen and freedwomen secured by the
Fourteenth Amendment. Section 1985(1) is not, however, strictly speaking a civil rights provision; rather, it safeguards federal officials and employees against conspiratorial acts directed at preventing them from performing their duties. It provides:

If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire to prevent,
by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or
holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United
States, or from discharging any duties thereof; or to induce by like
means any officer of the United States to leave any State, district, or
place, where his duties as an officer are required to be performed, or to injure him in his person or property on account of his lawful
discharge of the duties of his office, or while engaged in the lawful
discharge thereof, or to injure his property so as to molest, interrupt,
hinder, or impede him in the discharge of his official duties.

42 U.S.C. § 1985(1). The statute, in short, proscribes conspiracies that, by means of force, intimidation, or threats, prevent federal officers from discharging their duties or accepting or holding office. A party injured by such a conspiracy can sue any coconspirator to recover damages.
Id. § 1985(3).

Pretty simple… ONWARD!