{"id":222,"date":"2013-01-06T17:01:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T22:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/putting-conservation-into-conservatives-john-s-quarterman2.html"},"modified":"2013-01-06T17:01:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T22:01:40","slug":"putting-conservation-into-conservatives-john-s-quarterman2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/putting-conservation-into-conservatives-john-s-quarterman2.html","title":{"rendered":"Putting conservation into conservatives —John S. Quarterman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nMy op-ed in the VDT today. -jsq\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nGov. Deal\n(WABE, 14 Nov 2012<\/a>)\ntemporarily forgot that “conservative”\nincludes conserving something,\n\n<\/a>\nlike\n\nTheodore Roosevelt and national parks<\/a>,\nor when\n\nFranklin D. Roosevelt established the Okefenokee National Wildlife\nRefuge<\/a> which also\n\nadministers Banks Lake,<\/a> when\n\nRichard Nixon started the EPA,<\/a>\nand when\n\nJimmy Carter signed the Soil and Water Conservation Act.<\/a>\nIf Gov. Deal wants to call conservation “liberal”, I’m happy to\nbe a liberal working for water for our state!\n<\/p>\n

\nGeorgia Water Coalition’s Dirty Dozen<\/a><\/H2>\n\n<\/a>\nlisted the biggest boondoggle\nof all as\n\n#11: the nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle<\/a>\nsuck up more water from the Savannah River than all local agriculture and almost\nas much as the city of Savannah.\n<\/p>\n

\nIf the new Plant Vogtle nukes\n\nare ever completed,<\/a> all four will use more water than Savannah. In\n\n2009 the legislature approved and Gov. Deal signed a law<\/a>\nletting Georgia\nPower charge its customers in advance for building that boondoggle,\nto the tune of\n\nabout $1.5 billion so far!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nLet’s not forget<\/H2>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n
\n

\n\nnuclear Plant Hatch<\/a> sucking up water and\n\n<\/a>\nheating\nthe Altamaha, while\n\ncoal Plant Scherer,<\/a> at Juliette near Macon, the\ncountry’s dirtiest coal plant,\n\nsucks up water<\/a> and\n\nemits toxic mercury<\/a>\nthat gets into\n\nthe Alapaha River<\/a> in our watersheds here in\nsouth central Georgia.\n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nBetter energy solutions are available and in use in\n\nNorth Carolina<\/a>,\n\nCalifornia<\/a>,\n\nNew Jersey<\/a>, and even\n\nGermany<\/a>, the world leader in solar power.\n<\/p>\n

\n \n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/a>\n

\nFor $1.5 billion<\/H2>\n

\nwe\n\ncould have already had more solar power<\/a> online on time and on budget\nthan the new nukes will ever deliver if\nthey are ever finished.\n<\/p>\n

\nSolar and wind power use no water,
emit no\npollutants,
and need no coal trains from Wyoming.\n<\/p>\n
\n

\n\n<\/a>\n

\nWith the\n\nconservation and efficiency<\/a><\/H2>\n

\nthat Gov. Deal refused to prioritise,\nGeorgia wouldn’t need additional power, and with solar and wind we\ncan shut down dirty water-sucking coal and nuclear plants.\n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nI call on Gov. Deal\nto stop wasting our water on reservoir, coal,\nand nuclear boondoggles and get on with conservation, efficiency,\nand solar and wind power\n\nfor jobs and energy independence for Georgia.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

John S. Quarterman<\/H4>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nis a board member of\n\nWWALS Watershed Coalition,\nwww.wwals.net.<\/a> WWALS is an advocacy organization working for\nwatershed conservation of the Willacoochee, Withlacoochee, Alapaha,\nand Little River Systems watershed in south Georgia and north\nFlorida through awareness, environmental monitoring, and citizen\nadvocacy.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My op-ed in the VDT today. -jsq Gov. Deal (WABE, 14 Nov 2012) temporarily forgot that “conservative” includes conserving something, like Theodore Roosevelt and national parks, or when Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge which also administers Banks Lake, when Richard Nixon started the EPA, and when Jimmy Carter signed the Soil […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,202,141,216,14,264,265,16,50,8,18,2,19,20,104,21,22,32,23,74,24,53,133,55,36],"tags":[8736,8750,465,980,8745,8753,931,984,933,974,8704,8754,8755,8706,8722,978,8701,8708,973,8699,8709,981,8702,8710,983,464,12,7,46,977,8737,979,8711,105,975,107,8712,8715,8713,466,702,8732,982,8714,108,8725,976,6,8742,8727,932,985,8716,463,8740],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-agriculture","category-co2","category-coal","category-economy","category-energy-conservation","category-energy-efficiency","category-environment","category-epa","category-georgia","category-georgia-power","category-government","category-history","category-law","category-nuclear","category-planning","category-politics","category-pollution","category-renewable-energy","category-security","category-solar","category-sustainability","category-vdt","category-water","category-wind","tag-activism","tag-agriculture","tag-alapaha","tag-banks-lake","tag-co2","tag-coal","tag-conservation","tag-conservative","tag-conserving","tag-dirty-dozen","tag-economy","tag-energy-conservation","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-environment","tag-epa","tag-franklin-d-roosevelt","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-power","tag-georgia-water-coalition","tag-government","tag-history","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-lake","tag-law","tag-liberal","tag-little","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-nathan-deal","tag-national-parks","tag-nuclear","tag-okefenokee-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-planning","tag-plant-hatch","tag-plant-scherer","tag-plant-vogtle","tag-politics","tag-pollution","tag-renewable-energy","tag-river","tag-savannah","tag-security","tag-soil-and-water-conservation-act","tag-solar","tag-southern-company","tag-sustainability","tag-theodore-roosevelt","tag-valdosta","tag-vdt","tag-water","tag-watershed","tag-willacoochee","tag-wind","tag-withlacoochee","tag-wwals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-3A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}