Claudia Collier went to a Bureau of Ocean Energy Management public meeting yesterday at
the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah, and said:

“I suggest you designate the East Coast as the wind energy
basket.”

According to Orlando Montoya with GBP yesterday,

Offshore Oil Proposal Fuels Debate, she added:

“We have at least five areas out there on the shallow shelf that
have designated as very promising for wind. And I just believe that
once the East Coast is opened up to oil and gas, they will just take
over and wind will go by the wayside.”

Oil exploration, like nuclear,
is a distraction from getting on with renewable wind, wave, and solar
energy independence.
Let’s

do the study for energy reliability in Georgia
including using the large offshore wind opportunity.
Remember

the BP Gulf oil spill!
What do you get with a wind spill?
Um, wind?

The first Claudia Collier quote is by Mary Landers in SavannahNow today,

Off-shore Savannah drilling talk draws support, questions.
Mary Landers concluded:

The comment period on the document remains open until May 30. A
decision on allowing exploration is expected by the end of the
year.

In

a previous story she included this:

To read the draft impact study, go to

www.boem.gov/oil-and-gas-energy-program/GOMR/GandG.aspx.

The public may submit written comments by e-mail to ggeis@boem.gov or by mail to:

“Comments on the Draft PEIS for Atlantic G&G Activities”

Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Chief, Regional Assessment Section

Office of Environment (MS5410)

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Gulf of Mexico OCR Region

1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard

New Orleans, Louisiana 70123-2394

That was the last public meeting for Florida or Georgia, but

the schedule
heads on up the coast.

-jsq