It’s here, on No CapX 2020:

Notice of Meetings in Republican Eagle

Lots of good stuff coming over the wire yesterday and today.

There was a good “No New Coal” group at the Statehouse in Indiana yesterday.  Here’s the local rag’s report with lots of yahoos chiming in!

Statehouse protesters object to power plant

Here’s a You-Tube of John Blair’s speech:

John Blair gets down on coal

GO JOHN GO!!!

Water issues for BSII, all coal

December 7th, 2007

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The DOE issued a report that projects water usage if carbon capture is necessary, but what struck me was that in 2005, the bottom line in the R&D Program Summary was:

… there will be increasing pressure to retire existing plants and deny permits for new plants due to water availability and quality isues.

DUH!!!!

DOE – Estimating Freshwater Needs to Meet Future Thermoelectric Generation Requirements 2007

DOE – Addressing Critical Link Between Fossil Energy and Water 2005

DOE/FE Power Plant Water Management R&D Program Summary 2005

Yet Big Stone II was permitted, yes, the same BSII which has acknowledged water supply problems and has gone through some original and creative contortions to claim they can supply the plant.

Winterwalk from Locally Grown

December 7th, 2007

There’s a great You-Tube of Northfield’s Winterwalk last night on Locally Grown, complete with reindeer, horses (and a parent snatching a kid in the nick of time), trombones and a German Shepherd… oh, and there’s Veek-tor and Kiffi too!

Northfield Winter Walk from Glenn Switzer

This is one of the things I miss about living above Jacobsen’s in the downtown “canyon.” But I don’t miss the 4x/day bank robberies across the street during DJJD!

Prehns on Family Feud!?!?!

December 7th, 2007

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Team Prehn: Nancy, Bridgett, Andrea, Ashley and Carl – Where’s Kimber???  And where’s Sadie, the pointy-eared family member?

How bizarre…  I know enough to expect the unexpected from Nancy Prehn, but this is really weird.  REALLY WEIRD.  She got on Family Feud, they taped it in November, and it’s going to air on January 23 and 24th at 3:30 p.m. on Channel 5 or 7:30 p.m. on Channel 45.  She reports that they won the first round and lost the second.

Were it “County Feud” or “CenterPoint Feud” it might make sense, but Family Feud?  What next?

Now… where will I find a TV to check this out!