Georgia Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign probably contributed to

Georgia Power’s recent decision to shut down some coal plants.
Now Sierra Club offers a petition to ask Georgia Power CEO Paul Bowers
to go farther, and replace those coal plants with solar offshore wind power
for jobs and health for Georgia.

Dirty Coal is Out, Help Usher Clean Energy In!

Georgia Power recently announced their plans to retire three of
their oldest and dirtiest coal fired power plants.


Now, we must send
a clear message to Georgia Power’s leadership that we want to keep
Georgia Jobs by investing in homegrown clean energy and energy
efficiency to power our homes and businesses.

Send a message to Georgia Power CEO Paul Bowers telling him to
replace dirty coal with investments in homegrown clean energy and
energy efficiency that can produce thousands of lasting Georgia
jobs.

It’s a petition; details here.

Seth Gunning
explained why

in Sierra Club PR:

“Georgia families will be breathing easier now that some of
the state’s oldest and largest polluters will be phased out,”
said Seth Gunning, Beyond Coal Organizer with the Georgia Sierra
Club. “Georgia Power’s decision to phase out nearly one
quarter of their dirty, eighteenth century technology is good for
families and good for their customers. If the company chooses to
replace this capacity with home-grown, twenty-first century energy
technology like solar and wind, their decision will also be good for
Georgia jobs. Moving beyond coal and oil is the right decision for
Georgia Power.”

Here’s Paul Bowers
explaining away a radioactive tritium leak at Plant Hatch
4 October 2011.
Here’s Paul Bowers

on a stealth visit to Valdosta in October 2011 saying solar power
“will be cost-effective in the next few years”.
Here’s
Paul Bowers

bragging about being the first in 30 years to get a new nuke permitted
at the Southern Company shareholder meeting in May 2012.


Here’s
Paul Bowers

pushing solar misinformation out the next fifty years
in October 2012.
That last even though Georgia Power was already

requesting the PSC to approve 210 MW of new solar power.
Which is a pittance compared to New Jersey or Germany or even Denmark.

Let’s help Paul Bowers say,

like Cobb EMC CEO Chip Nelson in April 2012,
we’re just ripe for solar power.

-jsq