Today in the inbox… weird things today, you’d think it’s a full moon… oh, close enough:

Not only the Department of Energy, but on the heels of that DOE press release, there’s a filing from Goodhue County Sheriff Marty Kelly.

He can be reached at Sheriff’s Administration 651-267-2615 and via email: marty.kelly@goodhuecountymn.gov

His administrative aide posted this letter in the Xcel Integrated Resource Plan, PUC Docket 24-67, served today, and he’s promoting, lauding, incineration… not just “our” Xcel garbage burner in Red Wing, but also Wilmarth in Mankato, and French Island in La Crosse, WI! WHAT? The sheriff on incineration?

Why?

This is parroting Xcel Energy talking points, odds are they wrote it.

I’d guess the Sheriff has a role in preventing domestic terrorism directed at Xcel’s Red Wing garbage burner, as they did in protecting the County building after a “credible threat” during the furor fomented about refugee resettlement in 2020. What does the Sheriff have to do with any of these points? What does the Sheriff have to do with any of the garbage talking points above? Why stretching all the way to the Wilmarth garbage burner in Mankato, and French Island in La Crosse? Whew… absurd…

I wonder, with this “interest” in garbage burning, did Sheriff Kelly file comments in the MPCA’s permit docket, addressing renewal of the Xcel Energy Red Wing garbage burner’s air permit that expired in 2009?

MPCA Renewal of RW’s USG Air Permit

November 29th, 2024