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<\/a>\nDanny Orrock writes an op-ed in the AJC,\n<\/a>\nDanny Orrock writes an op-ed in the AJC,\n\nPro & Con: Do Georgia’s electric co-ops need better oversight?<\/a>\nFundamental determinations like power rates and capital\nexpenditures should not be made in the dark \u2014 if Georgia Power customers\ncan participate, there\u2019s no reason EMC customers shouldn\u2019t have the\nsame opportunity. Transparency benefits members and the utility. The\nsituation at Cobb EMC would likely not be so contentious if members\nhad been allowed to meaningfully engage with the board and management\nseveral years ago.\n<\/blockquote>\nSounds like a good idea, especially considering\nCobb EMC is the one that wants to build a coal plant in Ben Hill County.\n\nOn the same page, Paul Wood argues that\n\n\n
\nEMCs already face scrutiny from a myriad of government agencies.\n<\/blockquote>\nMaybe so, but that’s not the same as citizen scrutiny.\nAnd he manages to take offense:\n\nAny effort to tarnish the exceptional reputation of the honorable women and men of Georgia\u2019s electric cooperatives should be dismissed.\n<\/blockquote>\nI don’t know about you, but I’m kind of tired of\npeople who serve the public\n\ntaking offense at the slightest criticism.<\/a>\n\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Danny Orrock writes an op-ed in the AJC, Pro & Con: Do Georgia’s electric co-ops need better oversight? Fundamental determinations like power rates and capital expenditures should not be made in the dark \u2014 if Georgia Power customers can participate, there\u2019s no reason EMC customers shouldn\u2019t have the same opportunity. Transparency benefits members and the […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[97,1127,3],"tags":[8818,5064,2990,8708,5065,5066,8700],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cobb-emc","category-transparency","tag-cobb-emc","tag-danny-orrock","tag-emc","tag-georgia-power","tag-georgia-watch","tag-paul-wood","tag-transparency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-CS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","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=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}