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<\/a>\n“I suggest you designate the East Coast as the wind energy\nbasket.”\n<\/blockquote>\nAccording to Orlando Montoya with GBP yesterday,\n\nOffshore Oil Proposal Fuels Debate<\/a>, she added:\n\n“We have at least five areas out there on the shallow shelf that\nhave designated as very promising for wind. And I just believe that\nonce the East Coast is opened up to oil and gas, they will just take\nover and wind will go by the wayside.”\n<\/blockquote>\n\nOil exploration, like nuclear,\nis a distraction from getting on with renewable wind, wave, and solar\nenergy independence.\nLet’s\n\ndo the study for energy reliability in Georgia<\/a>\nincluding using the large offshore wind opportunity.\nRemember\n\nthe BP Gulf oil spill!<\/a>\nWhat do you get with a wind spill?\nUm, wind?\n<\/p>\n
\nThe first Claudia Collier quote is by Mary Landers in SavannahNow today,\n\nOff-shore Savannah drilling talk draws support, questions<\/a>.\nMary Landers concluded:\n<\/p>\n
\nThe comment period on the document remains open until May 30. A\ndecision on allowing exploration is expected by the end of the\nyear.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>\nIn\n\na previous story<\/a> she included this:\n<\/p>\n
\n\nTo read the draft impact study, go to\n\nwww.boem.gov\/oil-and-gas-energy-program\/GOMR\/GandG.aspx<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe public may submit written comments by e-mail to ggeis@boem.gov or by mail to:\n<\/p>\n
\n“Comments on the Draft PEIS for Atlantic G&G Activities”\n
\nMr. Gary D. Goeke, Chief, Regional Assessment Section\n
\nOffice of Environment (MS5410)\n
\nBureau of Ocean Energy Management\n
\nGulf of Mexico OCR Region\n
\n1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard\n
\nNew Orleans, Louisiana 70123-2394\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nThat was the last public meeting for Florida or Georgia, but\n\nthe schedule<\/a>\nheads on up the coast.\n<\/p>\n
\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n
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\nFriday, April 20\n<\/td> \nCharleston, SC\n<\/td> \nEmbassy Suites North Charleston\n
\n5055 International Boulevard,\n
\nCharleston, SC 29418\n<\/td>\n1 and 7 P.M.\nEDT\n<\/td><\/tr>\n \nTuesday, April 24\n<\/td> \nNorfolk, VA\n<\/td> \nHilton Norfolk Airport\n
\n1500 N. Military Highway,\n
\nNorfolk VA 23502\n<\/td>\n1 and 7 P.M.\nEDT\n<\/td><\/tr>\n \nWednesday, April 25\n<\/td> \nAnnapolis, MD\n<\/td> \nDoubletree Hotel Annapolis\n
\n210 Holiday Court,\n
\nAnnapolis, MD 21401\n<\/td>\n1 and 7 P.M.\nEDT\n<\/td><\/tr>\n \nThursday, April 26\n<\/td> \nWilmington, NC\n<\/td> \nHilton Wilmington Riverside\n
\n301 North Water Street,\n
\nWilmington, NC 28401\n<\/td>\n1 and 7 P.M.\nEDT\n<\/td><\/tr>\n \nThursday, April 26\n<\/td> \nWilmington, DE\n<\/td> \nSheraton Suites Wilmington\n
\n422 Delaware Avenue\n
\nWilmington, Delaware 19801\n<\/td>\n1 and 7 P.M.\nEDT\n<\/td><\/tr>\n \nFriday, April 27\n<\/td> \nAtlantic City, NJ\n<\/td> \nAtlantic City Convention Center,\n
\nOne Convention Boulevard\n
\nAtlantic City, New Jersey, 08401\n<\/td>\n1 P.M. EDT\n<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claudia Collier went to a Bureau of Ocean Energy Management public meeting yesterday at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah, and said: “I suggest you designate the East Coast as the wind energy basket.” According to Orlando Montoya with GBP yesterday, Offshore Oil Proposal Fuels Debate, she added: “We have at least five areas out […]","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":[97,47,14,16,19,104,559,23,24,55,36],"tags":[2655,2654,1255,1260,8719,8706,8701,2461,8709,8737,8782,8713,702,8714,8727,8716,2656],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-climate-change","category-economy","category-environment","category-history","category-nuclear","category-oil","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-water","category-wind","tag-boem","tag-bureau-of-ocean-energy-management","tag-chatham-county","tag-claudia-collier","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-bight","tag-history","tag-nuclear","tag-oil","tag-renewable-energy","tag-savannah","tag-solar","tag-water","tag-wind","tag-wind-energy-basket"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-eB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}