The answer is:
Burnt Church Road is the location of the
2 MW Lakeland Solar Farm,
conveniently next to what appears to be a Georgia Power substation.
The landowner appears from the Lanier County tax assessor maps to be
Patten Seed Company.
Compare this map to the big image in the
previous post
and they clearly show the same location.
Apparently nobody has satellite images of Lanier County new enough
yet to show the solar panels. Continue reading
Tag Archives: LAKE
Opaque Planning Commission agenda from Lowndes County @ GLPC 2014-04-28
Just in case it might work, I sent an Open Records Request to the
Lowndes County Clerk before Monday’s Planning Commission meeting.
The result just arrived, two days later, 47 hours after the meeting started.
It is in electronic form, as I requested, but it’s a
PDF of a scanned
image, so turning it into HTML would require OCRing it or transcribing it,
unlike
the real PDF I got by another means before the meeting
and posted Monday.
If the agendas and minutes for the Planning Commission were posted
on the web like the Lowndes County Commissions own agendas
and minutes already are, this problem wouldn’t arise,
and there would also be less work for county staff.
-jsq
Lowndes County Emergency Management Workshop May 5
Received today via the Valdosta-Lowndes Chamber of Commerce.
I added a few links from
posts in this blog featuring Ashley Tye.
-jsq
Lowndes County Emergency Management Continuity of Business Workshop,You Are Invited to attend the
Lowndes County Emergency Management
Continuity of Business Workshop
On Monday, May 5, from 5:30-6:30 p.m., Lowndes County Emergency Management will host a Continuity of Business Workshop on the second floor of the Lowndes County Administrative Building, 327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia. The session will be led by Lowndes County Emergency Management Director, Ashley Tye.
Attendees will receive Continue reading
2 megaWatts solar in Lanier County
Somebody told me a few weeks ago there’s a big solar farm near Lakeland. He was not very specific about where, but it’s big: two megawatts, organized by a company out of Chicago. Can anybody point me to where it is so I can go take pictures?
Evergreen Solar Services says,
2.0 MW Lakeland, GA
Completed in 2014, 2 — 1.0 MW Georgia Power ASI projects. Fixed tilt PV with central inverters, medium voltage interconnected.
You can see by this Evergreen Solar Services picture that Continue reading
Gretchen Quarterman on Chris Beckham radio show 2014-04-29
“People would have a lot more confidence in the government
if they understood it and they could see it happen,”
said Gretchen Quarterman this morning on drive-time radio.
She used last night’s
Brookhaven apartment building rezoning public hearing in
Lake Park to illustrate: local landowners have property rights and
there was a lack of communication between the developers
of a proposed apartment building, the Lake Park city government,
and the neighbors.
She also talked about jobs, including in local agriculture.
For example, she ran the
2014 South Georgia Growing Local Conference.
Money spent on local agriculture supports the local economy,
not companies far away.
She talked about stewardship of resources,
including preserving local property and environment from
the Sabal Trail natural gas pipeline.
She advocated Continue reading
Local governments can regulate land use –the anti-fracking activists who just won the world’s largest environmental prize
There is something we can do about that proposed fracked methane pipeline.
Lindsay Abrams wrote for Salon today, The real secret to beating the Koch brothers: How our broken political system can still be won: A duo of activists has quietly bested the energy lobby, helping ban fracking in 172 towns. Here’s how they did it,
You probably haven’t heard of Helen Slottje, or, for that matter, of her husband, David. But in the past few years, the former corporate lawyers have become arguably two of the most powerful opponents of fracking in New York — not to mention the most successful. As the (sort of) public face of the duo’s efforts, Helen Slottje on Monday was honored with the Goldman Prize, the world’s largest environmental prize.
OK, what did they actually do? Continue reading
Videos: Golf, aviation, and by-laws @ VLCIA 2014-04-15
A scheduled guest
didn’t show up
and an unscheduled guest
did,
about
broadband.
Perhaps 250 jobs from a prospective logistics distribution
Project Royal
and a potential agriculture-related
Project Orange.
Express Scripts
brought 135 jobs last year and now are adding 175 jobs.
Executive Director Andrea Schruijer
emphasized the importance of existing industries in generating
jobs and capital investment.
She’s also discovered
agriculture is 13% of Georgia GDP and 10% of that is grown in our region.
Next VLCIA meeting will be noon Thursday May 20th because of a trip to Atlanta later that same day. They may be in their “new digs” by then, and Building-Committee-UpdateChairman Mary Gooding promised an open house once they were moved in.
Here’s the agenda, with links to the videos, and a few notes.
Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial AuthorityContinue reading
Thursday, April 15, 2014 5:30 p.m.
Industrial Authority Conference Room
2110 N. Patterson Street
One Hahira rezoning and annexation and Two Valdosta Conditional Use Permits @ GLPC 2014-04-28
It seems unlikely the Hahira
rezoning
and
annexation
will go anywhere tonight, due to the
Lowndes County Commission letter of objection of 22 April 2014,
even though that may be based on a misunderstanding.
Hm, somebody wants
to establish a recycling center.
And Langdale Ford wants
to establish a minor automotive repair facility.
Here’s the agenda, which arrived as a PDF actually convertable to text!
Greater Lowndes Planning CommissionContinue readingLowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
AGENDA
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah AvenueMonday, April 28, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing
Brookhaven apartment building rezoning public hearing 7PM tonight in Lake Park
Gretchen will be there with the LAKE video camera.
Stuart Taylor wrote for the VDT today, Zoning on the agenda tonight at Lake Park hearing,
City officials host a public hearing today at the Lake Park Elementary School cafeteria concerning a rezoning request for an apartment complex.
This is for
LP-2014-02-26 Brookhaven III, Continue reading
U.S. electric demand still going down, while solar goes up like a rocket
If we need less electricity and we already getting almost all new energy from solar power, why not shut down some more coal, oil, and nuclear plants, and not build any destructive, hazardous, and unnecessary natural gas pipelines?
See
U.S. Electricity Use is Declining and Energy Efficiency May be a Significant Factor
by American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy,
February 25, 2014.
See also
Changes in Electric Power Annual (EPA) 2012 by the U.S. Energy Information Association (eia),
especially
Table 1.1. Total electric power industry summary statistics,
which says U.S. electric power net generation from all sources went down by 1.3% from 2011 to 2012.
The biggest declines were in Petroleum Coke (30.6%), Hydroelectric Pumped Storage (22.9%), Petroleum Liquids (16.7%), Coal (12.7%), and Nuclear (2.6%).
The biggest increases in generation were from Wind (17.2%),
Natural Gas (20.9%), and Solar (138%). Continue reading