SO CEO Tom Fanning didn’t budge from nuclear and coal, but he did announce a tiger team to get on top of distributed solar and wind through a smart grid, headed by SO’s COO, at the 22 May 2013 Southern Company Stockholder Meeting. Mr. John S. Quarterman from Lowndes County, Georgia, and he holds 220 […]
Basing a local economy on attracting retirees may not work so well anymore. Fortunately, there are plenty of things we can do here to provide jobs for our graduates and to attract non-retirees. Jim Galloway wrote for the AJC Saturday, Rural areas a less populated place as Baby Boomers shy away, This week, the U.S. […]
Other states, even New Jersey and far-north Michigan, are beating Georgia to solar jobs. Why isn’t sunny Georgia leading in one of the fastest-growing industries in the country that is deploying rural jobs everywhere else? Hint: who’s holding a shareholder meeting this month? Carin Hall wrote for energydigital 13 May 2013, Solar Jobs Outnumber Texas […]
Dublin gets the jump on the rest of Georgia again: Dublin High School will get a megawatt of solar electricity through a lease agreement with a private company using local government bonds to get around Georgia’s special financing problem. Kenny Burgamy reported for for 13wmaz.com Thursday, Solar Plant To Be Located at Dublin High, Dublin […]
The fossil fuel opposition is the child and grandchild of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. With their nonviolence, truth, and action as a model, we shall overcome. Bill McKibben, The Guardian, 25 August 2011, Martin Luther King’s legacy and the power of nonviolent civil disobedience: In opposing the Keystone XL oil pipeline, […]
It’s a start. At least New York City is already doing something. Time for Georgia to stop burning more fossil fuels and uranium and get on with solar power. By Lisa W. Foderaro, NY Times, 21 September 2014, At climate change march in New York, a clarion call for action, Participants from across the country […]
A reader wondered how Nova Scotia’s fracking ban would result in safer oil and gas company drilling operations instead of just balkanizing the world into fracking permitted and prohibited zones. Actually, Energy Minister Andrew Younger said: “This way, people will know before it’s allowed — if it’s ever allowed — there will be a full […]
This was an op-ed submission to the VDT, which didn’t respond. Today’s the GA PSC vote, so I’m blogging it now. On Tuesday, the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) wants to do for coal what the Florida PSC already did for that gas pipeline Sabal Trail wants to gash through here: raise utility customer rates! […]
There is a big difference between the 19th century horse excrement crisis and the current 21st century energy crisis, similar as they may sound. One was real. The other is manufactured by the modern equivalent of stagecoach vendors. Stephen Davies wrote for The Freeman 1 September 2004, The Great Horse-Manure Crisis of 1894, In 1898 […]
It’s good to see fracking reviewed in the VSU Spectator, including that it’s coming to Georgia unless we stop it, and we should stop it. It’s unfortunate the story ends with a bad idea when there’s a much better idea already rapidly being deployed: solar power. Stephen Cavallaro wrote yesterday for the VSU Spectator, Fracking […]