{"id":298,"date":"2008-08-13T09:50:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T16:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=298"},"modified":"2008-08-13T09:50:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T16:50:26","slug":"anthrax-fields-of-scott-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Anthrax fields of Scott County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/anthrax.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-299\" title=\"anthrax\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/anthrax-299x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/anthrax-299x174.jpg 299w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/anthrax.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you know there are Anthrax Fields in Scott County?\u00c2\u00a0 These are fields where cows with anthrax were buried years ago, mainly in the 1930s, but before and after too.\u00c2\u00a0 I learned of this over the weekend while on a guided tour looking at the MinnCan pipeline route and comparing that with the proposed route for CapX&#8217;s &#8220;Brookings&#8221; line.\u00c2\u00a0 That comparison is not a pretty site, because the pipeline is now a corridor, and putting transmission foundations in an anthrax field would not be good.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Avoidance criteria,&#8221; eh?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/eastern-half-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-302\" title=\"eastern-half-map\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/eastern-half-map-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/eastern-half-map-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/eastern-half-map.jpg 1542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, look at the map in this Anthrax Mitigation Report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/anthrax-mitigation-plan-report_jan07.pdf\">Anthrax Mitigation Plan &#8211; January 2007<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; and compare with the CapX 2020 map above &#8212; yesterday at the hearing, the state&#8217;s &#8220;environmental&#8221; guru who wrote the &#8220;Environmental Report&#8221; knew nothing about Anthrax Fields &#8212; you&#8217;d think something like that would be important enough to include in the report.\u00c2\u00a0 Goes to show you don&#8217;t think!!<\/p>\n<p>The MinnCan pipeline went right through an Anthrax Field, bored through it rather than dig it up and drop the pipe in a trench like they did elsewhere, and it happens to be at the intersection of the pipeline and the Wilmarth transmission line (and the Jordan slew too), and I&#8217;ve got this feeling that it&#8217;s going to be the site of the &#8220;Helena&#8221; substation too.\u00c2\u00a0 Watch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know there are Anthrax Fields in Scott County?\u00c2\u00a0 These are fields where cows with anthrax were buried years ago, mainly in the 1930s, but before and after too.\u00c2\u00a0 I learned of this over the weekend while on a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=298\"><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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}