The owner of Deep South Sanitation thanked the community and his family and said he didn’t understand what was going on. The Commission offered no explanation.
Cary Scarborough handed in a petition and sat down. The crowd applauded.
That rapidly turned into a standing ovation. Continue reading
Does the Commission already has reputation problems when
it’s being compared unfavorably to Lester Maddox?
A citizen canceled a business trip to ask “what if we only had one hardware store”
at last night’s
Lowndes County Commission Regular Session.
Our prices we pay would be through the roof; we would not have a choice.And you’re welcome, Duane Roark: it was LAKE who put you on YouTube last month.
He also quoted a headline from the Fayetteville Observer,
Operation Tarnished Badge: Years later, tarnish remains.
A corruption investigation that sent the Sheriff and 21 others to prison still casts a shadow over law enforcement in Robeson County.
If we put Deep South Sanitation out of business, it’s gonna give Lowndes County a black eye. People are to say, Continue reading
Only fifteen minutes on any topic, said Chairman Bill Slaughter, even though 8 people wanted to speak about trash at last night’s Lowndes County Commission Regular Session. But there is no such rule in the county’s relevant ordinance.
He was enforcing an odd mashup of the county’s 25 January 2013 ordinance about
Citizens Wishing to Be Heard.
It does have these two rules: Continue reading
At last night’s
Lowndes County Commission Regular Session,
Commissioner John Page prayed about
“the freedoms to serve in government, knowing that this government is supposed to be of the people by the people and for the people”.But the Commission seems to care more about this part he also said:
“our decisions and everything be done decently and in order”.
The county government still seems determined to take
the shirts
off these people’s backs.
Here’s the video:
Freedom or Order?
Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 11 June 2013.
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Nuclear reactor Farley 1,
about 125 miles from here tripped off its Reactor Coolant Pump Buses yesterday.
They plan to get around to informing the press about it real soon now;
they didn’t even tell the NRC until today.
Maybe somebody would like to call Farley and ask what’s going on?
“The Farley plant resident inspectors can be reached by calling 334-899-3386.”
Maybe ask them what caused
all those other downtimes at Farley over the years; maybe also about Browns Ferry and Hatch,
where new Resident Inspector Phillip Niebaum previously worked.
Southern Company CEO Thomas A. Fanning
asked us to look at SO’s safety record.
NRC Current Event Notification Report for June 12, 2013,
Event Number: 49106:
Notification Date: 06/12/2013
Notification Time: 01:33 [ET]
Event Date: 06/11/2013
Event Time: 21:05 [CDT]UNIT 1 AUTOMATIC REACTOR TRIP DUE TO THE LOSS OF A START-UP TRANSFORMER
“This is a report of an automatic RPS actuation and automatic ESF actuation per 10CFR50.72(b)(2)(iv)(B) and 10CFR50.72(b)(3)(iv)(A). Additionally, this is to report intentions for a press release per 10CFR50.72(b)(2)(xi).
“At 2105 CDT on 6/11/13, Farley Unit 1 experienced an automatic reactor trip from 100% power. The initiating event was the loss of the 1B Start up Transformer which resulted in de-energization of the B-Train ESF 4KV buses and the 1B and 1C Reactor Coolant Pump Buses. The 1B Emergency Diesel Generator auto started and tied to the B-Train 4KV Emergency buses.
“Both MDAFW Continue reading
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.
Atom Ecology’s promotional writeup 7 June 2013, Pandora’s Promise – Anti-Nuclear Mob Burns Environment In Coal Fired Forges Of Industry For 30 Years begins,
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 tiny germ of truth in that ten years ago is just plain wrong now that coal is not the alternative because solar has reached grid parity with nuclear, coal, and natural gas.
The movie plays up Stewart Brand’s conservationist credentials
and his conversion to pro-nuke.
Update 23 June 2013:
Now with sound!
Update 24 June 2013: Added links to separate posts for the newly audible items.
Unscheduled: Emergency Director Ashley Tye said more about
the proposed juvenile justice grant;
Kevin Beals announced the winners of the county’s
Wellness Weightloss Challenge;
and three
unscheduled Library Board applicants.
You can hear starting with the third of those last, but
you can’t hear the few potential appointees for KLVB, VLCCCTA, ZBOA, because
the county’s sound system
was out (due to a consultant or lightning, depending on who you ask)
and Gretchen didn’t notice and go to the camera’s mic until a few minutes in.
They did talk about
fixing the sewer force main that spilled into the Withlacoochee River.
Nothing was said about
the exclusive franchise for solid waste services.
Maybe you’d like to come tonight and say a few words.
Here’s the agenda, plus links to the videos and a few notes.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERSContinue reading
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 U.S. Senate just adopted an amendment to invest in gigabit
(1,000 megabit per second) rural broadband networks.
Our local leaders need to lobby for the House to pass this,
if they are serious about fast affordable Internet service for everyone here.
Senator Leahy’s tiny Vermont, with the population of a single Congressional district,
is already well along towards gigabit Internet.
Our three House members can help get south Georgia on the road to better
jobs, education, and health care through better Internet service.
Jennifer Reading wrote today for WCAX, Leahy’s high-speed internet amendment passes,
What I want to make sure is that a rural area can compete the same way an urban area can. It’s actually the argument, the debate that went on before I was even born about whether you had rural electricity, rural telephone or not and if we hadn’t done that much of this country would be a wasteland,” said Sen. Leahy.
Don’t we want that, too?
Continue reading
Korea’s Doosan supplied that
that train-wrecked Plant Vogtle reactor vessel later
left unprotected sitting at Savannah port,
as well as parts for more than a dozen U.S. reactors.
And Doosan, according to the Korean government,
forged documentation that just shut down “a host of nuclear reactors”
in Korea, whose Prime Minister said,
“Those found to be involved in wrongdoing or corruption must be sternly punished by the law, regardless of their rank and status.”
According to World Nuclear News 5 June 2008, Doosan awarded further contract by Westinghouse, Continue reading
Net metering actually shortchanges rooftop solar generators, discovered Austin Energy by running the numbers. And here in Georgia we can’t even get net metering: maybe we should. In Austin, Texas it’s called the Value of Solar tariff, and it’s an odd tariff that actually pays the solar generator.
Chris Warren wrote for Oxford American 7 June 2013, The Revolution Will Be Solarized,
To come up with a true value of solar to the utility, Austin Energy formulated numerical values for all of the benefits yielded by each kilowatt-hour of distributed generation. These included not only the
actual electricity produced but also the elimination of line losses as well as costs the utility could avoid by not building, or even delaying, construction on more generation. “If you put off a billion-dollar decision for one year, that’s at five percent interest,” said [Karl] Rabago. “It’s a big savings in cash each year.”
In the end, Austin Energy determined Continue reading