Last month former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair Jaczko
said all 104 operating U.S. nuclear power reactors are unsafe.
This month former Indian
Atomic Energy Regulatory Board Chair Gopalakrishnan
says the reactors currently building in India, already three years
behind schedule and now found to incorporate numerous defects and
deficiencies amid gross lack of transparency, must be stopped.
When will the NRC stop the restart of the flawed and non-transparent San Onofre 2?
When will the NRC or GA PSC or the GA legislature or even Southern Company
coming to its senses stop the 19-month-late $1-billion-overbudget
flawed-concrete Plant Vogtle 3 and 4 before they waste any more
of our resources that could be going to solar and wind jobs and energy?
Tag Archives: LAKE
35 jobs for 51 coal plants of CO2: Keystone XL Pipeline
What pollutes almost as much as one and a half coal plants per permanent job? The proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. Does that sound like a good deal to you?
Talia Buford and Darren Goode wrote for Politico 1 March 2013, State Dept. Keystone report plays down climate fears, Continue reading
BP: the beaches are open for everyone to enjoy!
BP must be getting desperate about people catching onto what they did to the Gulf.
A BP video ad has been replaying itself every few minutes beside various
news stories since yesterday, claiming two years after the oil disaster
(“spill” doesn’t describe it) “the beaches are open for everyone to enjoy!”
BP’s website
says “We are helping economic and environmental restoration efforts in the Gulf Coast as part of our ongoing commitment to the region following the Deepwater Horizon accident in 2010”.
Neither the ad nor the website says BP actually cleaned up the oil.
Because they didn’t.
It’s still there, as is the even more toxic “dispersant” Corexit BP
dumped on top of the oil to make it sink.
Both are busily poisoning dolphins, fish, birds, and humans.
Antonia Juhasz wrote for The Nation 7 May 2012, Investigation: Two Years After the BP Spill, A Hidden Health Crisis Festers,
Continue readingMoody AFB exercises this month
Heard choppers lately? You’re about to hear more: it’s spring Moody Air Force Base exercises!
PR carried by the Chamber of Commerce 16 April 2013,
JOINT ARMY AND AIR FORCE EXERCISE, April 21-26,
Continue readingMOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. — A joint military exercise will be conducted from April 21 to April 26 on military training areas at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., and in the vicinity of the surrounding communities.
The 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, based at Fort Benning, Ga. is conducting the exercise along with units from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment from Fort Campbell, Ky., 820th Base Defense Group at Moody AFB, and Air Force Special Operations Command from Hurlburt Field, Fla.
Soldiers and Airmen will use
When contamination gets into the watershed
Underground may be out of sight, but it just keeps seeping farther,
getting into more wells, poisoning more wetlands, and getting into the air,
causing cancer and other diseases.
Katie Leslie and Shannon McCaffrey wrote for the AJC 13 April 2013, 20 years later, Fort Gillem contamination still spreading,
In the early 1990s the U.S. Army discovered hazardous chemicals dumped at Fort Gillem seeping into residential wells in neighboring Forest Park. The finding prompted the military to pass out bottled water and convert many residents to a county water system from their private wells.
But two decades and a base closure later, state officials say the Army still hasn’t done enough to clean up known and suspected carcinogens that are migrating from groundwater into surface water and, potentially, into the air residents breathe.
We might want to think about that before importing coal ash; oh, wait, we already did! Maybe at least we should not import any more of it. We already have cancer-causing arsenic in some of our wells; we don’t need more. And what about that Continue reading
Lanier County Advocate and Lakeland City Council
Local newspaper videos local government and puts it on YouTube!
They have city council, county commission, board of education
since September last year.
It’s the
Lanier County Advocate,
videoing the
Lakeland City Council,
the
Lanier County Commission, and the
Lanier County Board of Education, plus
the
Lanier County Historical Society
on their
YouTube channel.
Southern Company Stockholder Meeting @ SO 2013-05-22
Spring means soon time for the Southern Company Stockholder meeting!
See what one of the biggest electric utilities in the world is up to,
and maybe make a few suggestions.
Here are videos of what you missed last year, and here is the official SO notice for this year (I got a link to it because I’m a shareholder): Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders of The Southern Company
DATE: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 TIME: 10:00 a.m., ET PLACE: The Lodge Conference Center at Callaway Gardens
Highway 18
Pine Mountain, Georgia 3182
It includes a list of Items of Business, which doesn’t mention that
stockholders are usually allowed to ask questions.
Those questions are usually answered by Thomas A. fanning,
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer,
who included a letter (text below) in which he recites
his usual list of energy sources, in his usual order: Continue reading
Kendrick Johnson inquest and protests
The death of Kendrick Johnson at Lowndes High School in January is still considered suspicious by many, and protests continue, with increasing news coverage. I hear there’s going to be a vigil at the Lowndes County palace tomorrow evening.
WCTV posted a compendium 16 January 2013, Father Speaks Out at Prayer Vigil for Lowndes High Student, including statements from the Lowndes County Schools Superintendent and from the Sheriff’s Department.
George Boston Rhynes of course
has been on the case from the beginning,
including
videoing the protests
and
interviewing protesters.
As he says,
it’s a human rights issue.
Quinten Plummer wrote for the VDT 11 April 2013, Family wants answers in LHS student’s death
Continue readingVideos: Road abandonment, deannexation @ LCC 2013-04-08
More questions than usual at the 8 April 2013 Lowndes County Commission Work Session,
but it still only lasted 11 minutes.
And a question that wasn’t even raised: who does own both sides of
Log Road?
The Tax Assessor’s database says something different from what
the County Engineer said.
No
special presentation was seen.
Here’s the agenda, with a few notes.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERSContinue reading
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
5.8 quake in Japan today
A quake big enough to shake houses, about 100 miles from the broken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors. Details from Japan Meteorological Agency:
Earthquake Information (Information on seismic intensity at each site)
Issued at 21:10 JST 17 Apr 2013
Occurred at (JST) Latitude
(degree)Longitude
(degree)Depth Magnitude Region Name 21:03 JST 17 Apr 2013 38.5N 141.6E 60 km 5.8 Miyagi-ken Oki
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PS: Owed to Masaichi Shiozaki.