Who’s applying to be appointed Tuesday evening?
The Commission doesn’t tell you.
Come to the Work Session Monday morning and maybe you’ll be able
to hear the County Manager mumble the names, if he names them.
Those
library board applicants from two weeks ago are finally
on the agenda.
Also
an appointment to Parks and Rec,
three liquor licenses, and many other items,
but nothing about solid waste or trash.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 2013, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2013, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
The recent rains have swollen our blackwater rivers, Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, and Little, under our longleaf pines and Spanish-moss-covered oaks, and filled up the tea-colored tannin waters in our frog-singing pocosin cypress swamps here in central South Georgia. But that was only a dent in our protracted drought that ranges from mild to extreme, with projections not much better….
There is no need to use our Floridan Aquifer water to build more
baseload power plants while Georgia lags behind Michigan,
Massachusetts, and even tiny New Jersey and Maryland in solar power.
WWALS calls on the PSC to ask Georgia Power to conserve our water
and to bring jobs to south Georgia through solar power and wind off
the Georgia coast.
Ask Georgia Power to conserve our water –Garry Gentry for WWALS
Georgia Power proposed closing of coal plants,
Administrative Session, GA Public Service Commission (GA PSC),
Doug Everrett (1: south Georgia), Tim Echols (2: east Georgia), Chairman Chuck Eaton (3: metro Atlanta), Stan Wise (5 north Georgia), Bubba McDonald (4: west Georgia),
Video by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
244 Washington Street SW, Atlanta, GA, 30334-9052, 18 June 2013.
Currently Georgia Power has a permit to use water from Lake Sinclair.
We would ask to use this permit for the
for the economic development of Putnam County.
We would ask you to encourage Georgia Power to assist in bringing
new industry to our area through their vast network of economic development.
…commit to maintain the current full level of Lake Sinclair and Lake
Oconee in order to continue the developments around the lake.
Chairman Eaton said the PSC was in a difficult position.
Sharp said he understood business and praised Georgia Power yet again, but:
From our standpoint
we’d like them to help us get on with life
and make life better in Putnam County
by helping us find this development.
Let’s go out and create some new ideas.
And they can do that.
And we’d like you to encourage them with your power and your prowess.
My LTE in the VDT Thursday.
I’ve added links to some of my inspirations. -jsq
Local leaders worked hard to get the
Valdosta Metropolitan Statistical Area declared.
Why now are they acting like a Ludowici
speed trap for local businesses?
Business exists to make a profit. Government exists to provide
public services like law enforcement, water, sewers, roads, and yes,
trash collection. Sure, balanced books are good. But money isn’t the
main point of government: providing what the people need is, and
the people didn’t ask the county to exchange the waste collection
centers for lower prices
that won’t last.
Here’s a trailer for the “documentary” pro-nuke film that comes out today,
Pandora’s Promise.
The film discounts solar and wind energy because its makers
don’t understand the exponential decrease in solar prices or
the night backup power ability of wind connected with a smart grid.
The vast majority of the American people already are demanding
those real renewables instead of nuclear or coal,
and the economics of wind and solar are also rapidly beating natural gas.
A new documentary film that reveals how opposition to and voting
against nuclear power turned into massive increases in coal burning
power plants. The far worse outcome for the environment as coal has
filled energy demand is the story just coming to theatres.
The movie plays up Stewart Brand’s conservationist credentials
and his conversion to pro-nuke.
Not in that movie, but
in this TED talk,
you can see
Stewart Brand lose a debate with Mark Z. Jacobson, who argued
we can power the whole world with sun, wind, and water.
Jacobson’s summary: Continue reading →
Here’s
the agenda, plus links to the videos and a few notes.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
The Japanese government ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. to build an
underground wall at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to prevent
groundwater from flowing into basements of reactor buildings.
The government plans to set up a task force with Tokyo Electric,
construction companies and plant makers by the end of June to
discuss the details, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
Toshimitsu Motegi said today in Tokyo. He made the remarks at a
meeting with Naomi Hirose, the utility’s president, which was open
to reporters.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2013, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
The Commission doesn’t tell you.
Come to the Work Session Monday morning and maybe you’ll be able
to hear the County Manager mumble the names, if he names them.
Those
library board applicants from two weeks ago are finally
on the agenda.
Also
an appointment to Parks and Rec,
three liquor licenses, and many other items,
but nothing about solid waste or trash.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
