{"id":4241,"date":"2013-06-21T07:37:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T11:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2013-06-21T07:42:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T11:42:32","slug":"ask-georgia-power-to-conserve-our-water-garry-gentry-for-wwals-ga-psc-2013-06-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/ask-georgia-power-to-conserve-our-water-garry-gentry-for-wwals-ga-psc-2013-06-18.html","title":{"rendered":"Ask Georgia Power to conserve our water &#8211;Garry Gentry for WWALS @ GA PSC 2013-06-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garry Gentry read the\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pv2M17iaqmk&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiFU0cmuLEetkftFsBG2DQkV\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/pv2M17iaqmk\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/2013\/06\/13\/ask-georgia-power-to-conserve-our-water-wwals-to-ga-psc\/\">\r\nWWALS Watershed Coalition letter<\/a>\r\nat\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/videos-of-ga-psc-on-georgia-power-coal-plant-closings-ga-psc-2013-06-18.html\">\r\nthe Georgia Public Service Commission meeting Tuesday 18 June 2013<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nThe recent rains have swollen our blackwater rivers, Withlacoochee, Willacoochee, Alapaha, and Little, under our longleaf pines and Spanish-moss-covered oaks, and filled up the tea-colored tannin waters in our frog-singing pocosin cypress swamps here in central South Georgia. But that was only a dent in our protracted drought that ranges from mild to extreme, with projections not much better&#8230;.\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/2013\/06\/13\/ask-georgia-power-to-conserve-our-water-wwals-to-ga-psc\/\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:189px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8431\/7863933768_3223240a75_m.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nThere is no need to use our Floridan Aquifer water to build more\r\nbaseload power plants while Georgia lags behind Michigan,\r\nMassachusetts, and even tiny New Jersey and Maryland in solar power.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nWWALS calls on the PSC to ask Georgia Power to conserve our water\r\nand to bring jobs to south Georgia through solar power and wind off\r\nthe Georgia coast.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>You can read\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwals.net\/2013\/06\/13\/ask-georgia-power-to-conserve-our-water-wwals-to-ga-psc\/\">\r\nthe complete letter<\/a>.\r\nHere&#8217;s\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pv2M17iaqmk&#038;list=PLshUv86fYkiFU0cmuLEetkftFsBG2DQkV\">\r\nthe video:<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pv2M17iaqmk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<br>\r\nAsk Georgia Power to conserve our water &#8211;Garry Gentry for WWALS\r\n<br>\r\nGeorgia Power proposed closing of coal plants,\r\n<br>\r\nAdministrative Session, GA Public Service Commission (GA PSC),\r\n<br>Doug Everrett (1: south Georgia), Tim Echols (2: east Georgia), Chairman Chuck Eaton (3: metro Atlanta), Stan Wise (5 north Georgia), Bubba McDonald (4: west Georgia),\r\n<br>\r\nVideo by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),\r\n<br>\r\n244 Washington Street SW, Atlanta, GA, 30334-9052, 18 June 2013.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garry Gentry read the WWALS Watershed Coalition letter at the Georgia Public Service Commission meeting Tuesday 18 June 2013. 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