{"id":6245,"date":"2015-10-10T21:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T04:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=6245"},"modified":"2015-10-10T21:49:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T04:49:33","slug":"capping-off-the-capx-2020-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=6245","title":{"rendered":"Capping off the CapX 2020 project&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;m not the only one putting this project in bankers boxes and wrapping it up.\u00c2\u00a0 11 years on this project, and it&#8217;s up, it&#8217;s built, wires in the air, cor-ten steel soldiers marching across the hills.\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, it didn&#8217;t go in a few places it shouldn&#8217;t, but it went up in a lot of places it shouldn&#8217;t, like EVERYWHERE.\u00c2\u00a0 This project never should have been built.\u00c2\u00a0 2.49% annual increase in peak demand&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, right&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 What a scam&#8230; and they got what they wanted, transmission for their surplus, sending it off to market, wherever.\u00c2\u00a0 Driving to WI last week, first passing under the span just below Wabasha, and then seeing the lines glistening in the sun stretching south of Alma, it was so depressing.\u00c2\u00a0 I hear there&#8217;s an article in the latest Zumbrota paper about it, guess people are finally noticing something is happening.\u00c2\u00a0 So hard to get people to care, and now it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n<p>So after a long, long day of writing, bleary eyed, I head downstairs, see that there&#8217;s junk mail falling out into the porch, and checked outside to see if my 6 month tea order arrived, YES, it did, but noooooo, that&#8217;s not a Stash label&#8230; hmmmmm, and way too light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CapXCap1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6246\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CapXCap1.jpg\" alt=\"CapXCap1\" width=\"436\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CapXCap1.jpg 526w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CapXCap1-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And dig the back, &#8220;La Crosse Project&#8221; SNORT!\u00c2\u00a0 Suzanne, Steve, George and Guy, eat your heart out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CapXCap2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6247\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CapXCap2.jpg\" alt=\"CapXCap2\" width=\"436\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CapXCap2.jpg 553w, https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/CapXCap2-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WHEW!!!\u00c2\u00a0 With receipt of this, my hourly rate on this project has just quadrupled!\u00c2\u00a0 And it&#8217;s appropriate dark mourning color.\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, it&#8217;s over.\u00c2\u00a0 Too few glimmers of light, other than that landowners are winning on &#8220;Buy the Farm&#8221; cases, it&#8217;s not over the Laymen for Christ campground, or over NORCA and NRG North Routes, and I got my easement client almost 4 times their original lowball offer.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, little birdie!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/vulture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-839\" src=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/vulture.jpg\" alt=\"vulture\" width=\"95\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;m not the only one putting this project in bankers boxes and wrapping it up.\u00c2\u00a0 11 years on this project, and it&#8217;s up, it&#8217;s built, wires in the air, cor-ten steel soldiers marching across the hills.\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, it <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/?p=6245\"><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":[337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hampton-alma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245","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=6245"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6256,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6245\/revisions\/6256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocapx2020.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}