Legalectric

Xcel Energy signed up for time before the Red Wing City Council at last night’s meeting. The entirety of their packet is here:

Xcel started off their part of the meeting with… well… this powerpoint:

And in that 7C Attachment was Xcel Energy’s “responses” to questions posed by the City in its Scoping Comments for the Supplemental EIS, which they did not go over!! Dig this:

Note this admission that Xcel has no intention of “REPLACING” the TN-40 casks with its yet to be identified new cask. First, regarding their failure to ID the cask, they state that they selected the TN-40s in 1989, SIX YEARS prior to the first loading of a dry cask! They don’t answer question #1 — UNRESPONSIVE!

So do you mean to say, Xcel, that though “TN-40s were selected in 1989,” SIX YEARS BEFORE THEY WERE FIRST LOADED, that you cannot identify at this time what cask you are proposing to use? Right…

Now, as to replacing the existing, loaded, TN-40 casks, here’s what Xcel has to say:

Has spent fuel ever been removed from a TN-40 and put into another cask?

Xcel Energy’s presentation starts right about here, at 23:25. Note that at he says that RW’s Comments were on the SEIS, but no, they were SCOPING comments (25:54):

Xcel’s Kapitz says that he was in charge of the initial Dry Cask Storage ISFSI (was he also in charge of the Florence Township ISFSI application to state and NRC?).

Note at 31:14, “ONE of your residents has a concern” that there’s a state law that PUC shall order casks. FYI, it’s not just moi! I’m honored, but… just NO!

Xcel’s Kapitz also misstates, misrepresents, the point of the statute. Let’s be clear here — the point of Minn. Stat. 116C.776 was as one point of assurance that the ISFSI was not PERMANENT! 1994 was 27 years ago…

My comments on nuclear waste (and then the resignation of our 2nd Ward Councilcritter) start at about 50:06:

I’ll need to post this 7C Attachment on the Public Utilities Commission site for public viewing!

Will someone please explain to Mike Montgomery that the U.S. is not a theocracy? He read from Romans 13:1, but read what it really says!

Here’s a longer version, note the part about TAXES! SNORT!

Montgomery is orchestrating residents to show up and “give their comment time” to him, so that he can rant and blather and spew ugliness in Dog’s name. That starts at about 54 minutes. Check out George Snyder at about 57:40, and Ernie Stone had some interesting things to say too (Hey, Ernie, SNOUT’S OUT!), starting about 1:00:30, particularly admitting that the reason for the “Recall City Hall” was the firing of former Chief Pohlman. Mike Montgomery starts about 1:07. Note he brings a group…

Must watch to believe…

This is nuts…

I mean really, Minnesota was not contested…

Here it is, you have to read the whole thing:

Jan. 6 Committee Examines PowerPoint Document Sent to Meadows

Xcel Energy is presenting at the Red Wing City Council meeting on Monday. Here’s the presentation:

The interesting part is in the company’s response to the City of Red Wing comment to the PUC, pages 30-36 of Attachment 7C. And it’s p. 33 that is really interesting. Xcel confesses that they have no intention of unloading the existing TN-40s and putting that waste in the new casks!

Oh, really?

Have you forgotten the statute, or do you think we will forget?

Here’s the state’s law that requires the Commission to order casks usable for transportation so the nuclear waste can be shipped out of here:

Better make sure the Public Utilities Commissioners aren’t sleeping at the switch.

And North East Independent School District, a school district in San Antonio, is reviewing their books. That school district, FYI, has a section in school library where parental permission is necessary to check out books? WTAF?

CLICK HERE FOR THE LIST!

From the North East Independent School District website: “Feel free to email us at board@neisd.net. We welcome your comments, questions, or concerns.”

board@neisd.net

Have at it, let them know what you think.

A Texas school district is reviewing 400 library books after a GOP lawmaker’s inquiry

From the article:

“If a book needs to be moved from elementary to the secondary level or whether a book at the high school level needs to be placed in a separate section that requires parental permission,” she wrote.

“The idea is more of a reorganization and a reshuffle — the purpose is not to remove books.”

And on Krause’s effort:

But the Democratic vice chair of the panel says the inquiry is a waste of taxpayers’ money and educators’ time. State Rep. Victoria Neave says it’s an attempt to obscure facts and exploit a wedge issue for political gain.

And this:

Texas school district pulls 400 books from library shelves for review after legislator’s inquiry