{"id":23877,"date":"2023-09-12T11:18:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T15:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=23877"},"modified":"2023-09-12T13:06:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:06:15","slug":"videos-grant-match-for-dark-sky-and-resolution-against-mine-too-near-okefenokee-swamp-clinch-county-commission-2023-09-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/videos-grant-match-for-dark-sky-and-resolution-against-mine-too-near-okefenokee-swamp-clinch-county-commission-2023-09-11.html","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Grant match for Dark Sky and resolution against mine too near Okefenokee Swamp @ Clinch County Commission 2023-09-11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 2023-09-12<\/strong>: WWALS blog,\r\nClinch County Resolution against strip mine, for Okefenokee Swamp 2023-09-11<\/a>.\r\n\r\n

\r\nThe Clinch County Commission set aside $50,000 as cash match for a Dark Sky Observatory next to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (ONWR),\r\nand passed\r\na resolution supporting the Okefenokee Swamp against the proposed titanium mine.\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"[Collage<\/a>\r\n
Collage @ Clinch County Commission 2023-09-11<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe Dark Sky project involves a building with a rollaway roof.\r\nSuperior Pine Products has donated some land next to ONWR;\r\nexactly where is not clear, although it has to be north up GA 177 near the refuge entrance, yet across the Suwannee River on the west or right bank.\r\nIt will be interesting to see how people will get in to use it.\r\n

\r\n\r\nThe resolution<\/a> includes:\r\n
\r\n“7. Request the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to move the\r\nOkefenokee National Wildlife Refuge from a tentative list to become\r\na full UNESCO World Heritage Site, and support a bill by a\r\nbipartisan coalition of members of Congress in support of that move.”\r\n

\r\nAs Chairman Henry Moylan remarked, the UNESCO World Heritage List<\/a> is a big deal,\r\nsince it goes through the U.N. and includes sites like the Pyramids and the Grand Canyon.\r\nGetting ONWR on it should attract more visitors.\r\nThat list also includes Yellowstone, Yosemite, Great Smoky Mountains, and Everglades National Parks,\r\nso it’s a bit puzzling why ONWR is not already on there.\r\n

\r\nThat was in addition to regular business, including renewing a solid waste removal contract and building an EMS building: they decided to look into building a steel building first, and then see about the insides.\r\n

\r\nClinch County is not one of the ones declared a federal disaster area (Lowndes, Cook, and Glynn), but it is among those eligible for public assistance for debris removal.\r\nWhich requires hiring both a debris removal company and a monitoring company.\r\nAs the representative from DebrisTech explained, that’s because of Hurricane Katrina,\r\nafter which there was much fraud.\r\nSo his firm follows each debris removal truck as it picks up and delivers,\r\nphotographing with GPS coordinates.\r\nHomerville City Manager Wallace Mincey said the city had been looking into debris removal, but would probably go in with the county on that.\r\n

\r\nThe Commissioners did not do anything about a Fargo Water Well Easement,\r\nbecause nobody could identify any land owned by the county inside Fargo City Limits.\r\nNobody from Fargo was at the meeting.\r\n\r\n

\r\nHere is the agenda:\r\n\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"[Agenda,<\/a>\r\n
Agenda, Clinch County Board of Commissioners, 2023-09-11<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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CLINCH COUNTY BD OF COMMISSIONERS\r\n

September 11, 2023 @ 6:00 PM\r\n

AGENDA\r\n

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\r\nCall to Order\r\n

\r\nInvocation\r\n

\r\nReview and Adoption of the Agenda\r\n

\r\nApproval of Minutes\r\n

\r\nNew Business:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

    \r\n
  1. Solid Waste Renewal Agreement with Ryland Environmental\r\n
  2. Hurricane Idalia—Debris Removal & Debris Monitoring\r\n
  3. Fargo Water Well Easement\r\n
  4. EMS Building Update\r\n
  5. Grant Application for Okefenokee Swamp Dark Sky Observatory\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    \r\nOld Business:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

      \r\n
    1. Resolution Against Strip Mine in the Okefenokee Swamp\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

      \r\nOther\r\n<\/p>\r\n

      \r\nAdjournment\r\n<\/p>\r\n

      \r\nBelow are LAKE videos of each agenda item,\r\nfollowed by a LAKE video playlist.\r\n

      \r\nSee also \r\nthe LAKE videos of last month’s meeting<\/a>, in which they discussed the draft resolution.\r\n