{"id":216,"date":"2013-01-09T08:20:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/help-sierra-club-send-a-message-to-georgia-power-ceo-bowers.html"},"modified":"2013-01-09T08:20:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:20:56","slug":"help-sierra-club-send-a-message-to-georgia-power-ceo-bowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/help-sierra-club-send-a-message-to-georgia-power-ceo-bowers.html","title":{"rendered":"Help Sierra Club send a message to Georgia Power CEO Bowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\n<\/a>\nGeorgia Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign probably contributed to\n\nGeorgia Power’s recent decision<\/a> to shut down some coal plants.\nNow Sierra Club offers a petition to ask Georgia Power CEO Paul Bowers\nto go farther, and replace those coal plants with solar offshore wind power\nfor jobs and health for Georgia.\n<\/p>\n

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\nDirty Coal is Out, Help Usher Clean Energy In!<\/a><\/H4>\n

\nGeorgia Power recently announced their plans to retire three of\ntheir oldest and dirtiest coal fired power plants.\n\n<\/a>\nNow, we must send\na clear message to Georgia Power’s leadership that we want to keep\nGeorgia Jobs by investing in homegrown clean energy and energy\nefficiency to power our homes and businesses.\n<\/p>\n

\nSend a message to Georgia Power CEO Paul Bowers telling him to\nreplace dirty coal with investments in homegrown clean energy and\nenergy efficiency that can produce thousands of lasting Georgia\njobs.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nIt’s a petition; details here.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nSeth Gunning<\/a>\nexplained why\n\nin Sierra Club PR:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\n<\/a>\n“Georgia families will be breathing easier now that some of\nthe state’s oldest and largest polluters will be phased out,”\nsaid Seth Gunning, Beyond Coal Organizer with the Georgia Sierra\nClub. “Georgia Power’s decision to phase out nearly one\nquarter of their dirty, eighteenth century technology is good for\nfamilies and good for their customers. If the company chooses to\nreplace this capacity with home-grown, twenty-first century energy\ntechnology like solar and wind, their decision will also be good for\nGeorgia jobs. Moving beyond coal and oil is the right decision for\nGeorgia Power.”\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n\n<\/a>\n\n<\/a>\nHere’s Paul Bowers\nexplaining away a radioactive tritium leak at Plant Hatch<\/a>\n4 October 2011.\nHere’s Paul Bowers\n\non a stealth visit to Valdosta<\/a> in October 2011 saying solar power\n“will be cost-effective in the next few years”.\nHere’s\nPaul Bowers\n\nbragging about being the first in 30 years to get a new nuke permitted<\/a>\nat the Southern Company shareholder meeting in May 2012.\n\n<\/a>\nHere’s\nPaul Bowers\n\npushing solar misinformation out the next fifty years<\/a>\nin October 2012.\nThat last even though Georgia Power was already\n\nrequesting the PSC to approve 210 MW of new solar power.<\/a>\nWhich is a pittance compared to New Jersey or Germany or even Denmark.\n<\/p>\n

\nLet’s help Paul Bowers say,\n\nlike Cobb EMC CEO Chip Nelson in April 2012<\/a>,\nwe’re just ripe for solar power.\n<\/p>\n

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