Legalectric

OK, here we go on Excelsior’s Mesaba project again… go figure… all those complicated transmission studies that have come out over the last couple years, all the reports that Sherner made at MAPP’s NM-SPG meetings, well now suddenly there are two reports released on January 5, 2007, that say “IT’S DELIVERABLE.” Yes, that’s two studies that came out after that one that Xcel found that said “NO, you can’t have firm transmission service!” Well, now there are two more that say:

Hoyt Lakes Deliverability Study

and

Taconite Deliverability Study

Here there were these complicated studies over the years, lots of pages and lots of information and each said it just doesn’t work. Now there are two sparce 4 page “studies,” one for each site, that say it’s deliverable.

“600MW from this generator is deliverable based on MISO Generator Deliverability Study result.”

EH? SAY WHAT? HUH? WHAT CHANGED? Oh, $50 says they’ve added EVERY CapX2020 line??? WHERE’S THE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION THAT ACCOMPANYIES EVERY OTHER TRANSMISSION STUDY I’VE EVER SEEN? IT CONFLICTS WITH EVERY PRESENTATION THEY’VE MADE TO NM-SPG!
Xcel’s Thursday Study MISOA324_Interim_Report-OASIS

mcgp-ex-g519-initial2post-branch-violations.pdf

Excelsior Sherner presentation to NM-SPG Aug 16 2006
Excelsior Sherner presentation to NM-SPG 05-05-05
Excelsior Sherner presentation to MN-SPG 10-26-04
Excelsior Sherner presentation to NM-SPG 03-30-04

Oh, pluheeze, give me a break! As a cohort said a couple days ago, “I feel like I’m at the Mat Hatter’s tea party!” Well, I hear mercury does have that impact.

Color me jaundiced.

And rumor has it that the Garvey letter, when it refers to carbon capture and sequestration and that costs be included in the rate of $110/MWh, that it includes the reality, the action, of carbon capture and sequestration, that acutal capture and sequestration is required. UH-HUH, like in their “plan.”
Oh, really? The PPA cite? And let’s see the enforcement mechanism on that, and y’all know where you can blow that CO2, eh?
No problem, just one more mess to wade through… I’ve got my barn boots right here.

But the good news is that I didn’t get my Excelsior filings yet, the 61 page “brief” and the 307 pages of Findings of Fact, really, 307 pages. When I called about it, Byron says they’re very well written, of course I noted that I deduct for every word that ends in “ly” and they’ve got a bit of a deficit… it’s been five days… they’re sending it by oxcart, or maybe barge…
What a load of crap this all is.

I guess the NM-SPG meeting will be interesting.

And then there’s Minamata.

The Mayor of Hoyt Lakes said at the public hearing, “We’re used to mercury here.” Oh…