Claudia Collier went to a Bureau of Ocean Energy Management public meeting yesterday at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah, and said:
According to Orlando Montoya with GBP yesterday, Offshore Oil Proposal Fuels Debate, she added:“I suggest you designate the East Coast as the wind energy basket.”
“We have at least five areas out there on the shallow shelf that have designated as very promising for wind. And I just believe that once the East Coast is opened up to oil and gas, they will just take over and wind will go by the wayside.”
Oil exploration, like nuclear, is a distraction from getting on with renewable wind, wave, and solar energy independence. Let’s do the study for energy reliability in Georgia including using the large offshore wind opportunity. Remember the BP Gulf oil spill! What do you get with a wind spill? Um, wind?
The first Claudia Collier quote is by Mary Landers in SavannahNow today, Off-shore Savannah drilling talk draws support, questions. Mary Landers concluded:
The comment period on the document remains open until May 30. A decision on allowing exploration is expected by the end of the year.
In
a previous story she included this:
To read the draft impact study, go to www.boem.gov/oil-and-gas-energy-program/GOMR/GandG.aspx.
The public may submit written comments by e-mail to ggeis@boem.gov or by mail to:
“Comments on the Draft PEIS for Atlantic G&G Activities”
Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Chief, Regional Assessment Section
Office of Environment (MS5410)
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Gulf of Mexico OCR Region
1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard
New Orleans, Louisiana 70123-2394
That was the last public meeting for Florida or Georgia, but the schedule heads on up the coast.
-jsq
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