{"id":9721,"date":"2014-07-30T12:29:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T16:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=9721"},"modified":"2014-07-30T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T16:44:07","slug":"all-of-the-above-mercury-methane-fracking-radioactive-waste-water-overuse-epa-go-clean-renewables-instead-susan-corbett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/all-of-the-above-mercury-methane-fracking-radioactive-waste-water-overuse-epa-go-clean-renewables-instead-susan-corbett.html","title":{"rendered":"All of the above: mercury water, methane fracking, radioactive waste, water overuse; EPA go clean renewables instead –Susan Corbett"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n\r\nSouth Carolina Sierra Club Chair Susan Corbett<\/a> summed up\r\nthe problem with\r\n\r\nthe EPA’s carbon rule<\/a>:\r\nit opposes one poison while promoting others.\r\nWe can make a real green clean energy policy\r\nbased on conservation, efficiency, solar, and wind energy.\r\nRemember, you can still\r\n\r\nsend in your own comments directly to EPA<\/a>.\r\n

\r\n\r\nSC Sierra club, chair at EPA Atlanta hearing<\/a>, by Elaine Cooper on YouTube 30 July 2014:\r\n

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\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nAll of the above has brought us\r\n\r\nmercury in our rivers<\/a>…,\r\nmountains of coal ash leaking arsenic into our water<\/a>…,\r\nfracking, a toxic stew of chemicals injected into our groundwater,\r\nmethane in our drinking wells, and earthquakes where there never were earthquakes before.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nCorbett is also chair of Sierra Club’s nationwide\r\n\r\nnuclear free campaign<\/a>\r\n(of which I am also a member, and I am a Sierra Club Georgia chapter member).\r\n

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\r\nAll of the above has brought us 80,000 tons of plutonium nuclear waste\r\nwith nowhere to go….\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nIt has also brought us radioactive tritium leaking into our rivers;\r\nvirtually every nuclear power plant in this country is leaking tritium\r\ninto our groundwater.\r\nAnd it’s brought us the continued use of 23 dangerous Fukushima Mark I reactors, one of them here in Georgia.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nTwo, actually,\r\n\r\nboth Hatch 1 and Hatch 2<\/a>, only 100 miles from where I sit.\r\nHm, why was\r\n\r\nHatch 1 down to 24% on 2 June 2014<\/a>?\r\nAnd why were Vogtle 1 and 2 at 0% on 8 April 2014?\r\nWhy are we trusting Southern Company to build Vogtle 3 and 4?\r\nEspecially when Georgia Power\r\n\r\nannually hikes rates<\/a>\r\nto pay for new nukes and natural gas plants before they ever deliver\r\na single electron of power?\r\n

\r\nHere’s the video, apparently taken by Elaine Cooper 30 July 2014,\r\nfollowed by more transcription.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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