My op-ed in the VDT today. -jsq
Gov. Deal
(WABE, 14 Nov 2012)
temporarily forgot that “conservative”
includes conserving something,
like
Theodore Roosevelt and national parks,
or when
Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Okefenokee National Wildlife
Refuge which also
administers Banks Lake, when
Richard Nixon started the EPA,
and when
Jimmy Carter signed the Soil and Water Conservation Act.
If Gov. Deal wants to call conservation “liberal”, I’m happy to
be a liberal working for water for our state!
listed the biggest boondoggle
of all as
#11: the nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle
suck up more water from the Savannah River than all local agriculture and almost
as much as the city of Savannah.
If the new Plant Vogtle nukes
are ever completed, all four will use more water than Savannah. In
2009 the legislature approved and Gov. Deal signed a law
letting Georgia
Power charge its customers in advance for building that boondoggle,
to the tune of
about $1.5 billion so far!
Let’s not forget
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