{"id":2771,"date":"2010-12-07T22:35:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T05:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2010-12-07T23:05:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T06:05:49","slug":"the-ongoing-saga-of-the-fargo-st-cloud-transmission-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=2771","title":{"rendered":"The ongoing saga of the Fargo-St. Cloud transmission line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s last Tuesday&#8217;s last minute surprise testimony that the CapX 2020 proponents filed:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left;\"><p><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/xcel_fargo_surrebuttal_of_dan_kline.pdf\">Surrebuttal of Dan Kline<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/xcel_fargo_valberg_surrebuttal.pdf\">Surrebuttal of Peter Valberg<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And upon receiving that, I fired off a letter requesting leave to file responsive testimony with exhibits, it&#8217;s only fair, they filed NEW testimony on something that they should have anticipated, and timed it so we couldn&#8217;t address it:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left;\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/letter-requestleave2file-201012-57019-01.pdf\">December 1, 2010 NoCapX, U-CAN &amp; NoRCA Letter Requesting Leave to File Responsive Surrebuttal<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nope, on Wednesday at Paul&#8217;s Pair-A-Dice in Albany, Judge Heydinger said NO, and suggested I look at the Prehearing Order, OK, fine, so I did, and found that she&#8217;d specifically ordered that\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Any new affirmative matter that is not offered in reply to another party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s direct case will not be allowed in rebuttal testimony and exhibits.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Hmmmmmmm&#8230; after that &#8220;NO&#8221; I let my cohorts know that I&#8217;d be filing an Objection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230; then December 2, 2010, Valberg shows up to testify at the public hearing!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230; and December 3 was the deadline for objections, so of course I filed an objection with the Order for backup for my position, and of course the ALJ knew I&#8217;d asked for leave to submit testimony and that was rejected:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left;\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/objection.pdf\">NoCapX 2020, U-CAN &amp; NoRCA Objection &amp; Motion to Strike<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then it gets really strange:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left;\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/motion-response.pdf\">Avon Twp Response to Motion<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Oh&#8230; my&#8230; you&#8217;ve got to read it &#8212; taken out little quotes just doesn&#8217;t do it.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Something tells me somebody didn&#8217;t read my initial request after the filing of that testimony to &#8220;go forward and address this issue:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snippet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2775\" title=\"snippet\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snippet.jpg\" alt=\"snippet\" width=\"467\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snippet.jpg 786w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/snippet-300x109.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So we argued this out yesterday, and the result?\u00c2\u00a0 I got what I&#8217;d requested originally, leave to file the Brookings docket testimony of David Carpenter.\u00c2\u00a0 Why does this have to be so difficult?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/carpenterdirect-200911-43801-01.pdf\">Brookings Direct Testimony of David Carpenter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Suppression&#8221; my ass&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/martinblank-testimonyexhibits.pdf\">Susquehanna-Roseland Testimony of Dr. Martin Blank<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s last Tuesday&#8217;s last minute surprise testimony that the CapX 2020 proponents filed: Surrebuttal of Dan Kline Surrebuttal of Peter Valberg And upon receiving that, I fired off a letter requesting leave to file responsive testimony with exhibits, it&#8217;s only <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=2771\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[370],"tags":[14,519,134,281,35,28],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fargo-st-cloud","tag-capx-2020","tag-david-carpenter","tag-emf","tag-magnetic-fields","tag-powerline","tag-transmission-line"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}