Legalectric

It’s no work of art, but in the scenario this proceeding is in, with Prairie Island Indian Community and City of Red Wing deep in it with or working on agreements with Xcel Energy, there’s not much we can do, little impact, as they’re the players, and also, AAAAACK, I just didn’t have time.

The DEIS did grossly misrepresent the history and status of Xcel’s Utility Personal Property Tax payments to local governments, so I did include the City of Red Wing comment in the IRP (below page 13, Attachment A).

The main purpose of this is to push for reworking of the “low-dose” radiation exposure modeling using Aaron Datesman’s cutting edge Three Mile Island “shot noise” work to correct for the GIGO current modeling and more accurately characterize the risk.

Sooooooo, anyway, here’s what I filed:

UPDATE: Tsunami warning canceled for San Francisco Bay, Northern California coast

So much for that!

Northern California tsunami warning issued after 7.0 magnitude earthquake hits

Here’s the USGS map from that article:

And this tsunami WARNING — what could go wrong?

Right on the ocean:

Well, there is a jetty there, but…