They’re updating the regional water plan.
They want to cooperate with neighboring water councils
and with similar organizations in Florida.
They meet again
today at Aniston’s Restaurant, 1404 W. Baker Highway, Douglas, GA.
See also:
Please join the opposition to the Sabal Trail watershed invader —WWALS to SSRWPC.
Tag Archives: Valdosta
Live Oak bus service starts Monday 2015-07-20
How come Live Oak (pop. 6,974) in Suwannee County (43,734), Florida can do
what mighty Valdosta (56,481) in Lowndes County (112,916), Georgia can’t?
Amber Vann, Suwannee Democrat, 17 July 2015, Live Oak bus route starts Monday,
The Suwannee Valley Transit Authority’s Live Oak bus route will begin operating on Monday, July 20, running continuously from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. throughout every direction of the city, Monday through Friday. The route’s unofficial stops include apartment complexes and other residential neighborhoods, public schools, grocery stores, parks, government offices, nursing homes, the library and the hospital.
The route starts at the intersection of Walker Avenue and US 90 West Continue reading
Alabama Power wants more renewable energy due to corporate customer demand
Southern Company’s subsidiaries are all turning to the sun!
Even that titanic ship is affected by the tugboats of its corporate customers.
Ari Phillips, ClimateProgress, 16 July 2015, This Massive Utility Wants More Renewable Energy Because Corporations Are Demanding It,
In June, Alabama Power, one of the country’s largest electricity providers, filed a petition with the state’s Public Service Commission to add up to 500 megawatts of renewable energy over the next six years. The utility, which serves over 1.4 million customers in Alabama, cited customer demand as a primary reason for adding all this renewable energy — specifically corporate customers.
“This program was driven by conversations with customers looking to meet renewable mandates pushed down from their headquarters,” said Tony Smoke, Alabama Power vice president of marketing, in a statement announcing the request. “As a service provider, our focus is to make sure we are providing customers access to choices they want.”
It’s like Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning said in May Continue reading
VLMPO Public Open House on 2040 Transportation Vision Plan 2015-07-22
Anytime all day, 10AM to 6PM, Wednesday July 22nd, you can advise
SGRC on transportation for the region,
at the VLMPO office at 327 W Savannah Ave, Valdosta, Georgia 31601.
Here’s
VLMPO’s facebook event.
According to SGRC’s Transportation Planning web page:
2040 Transportation Vision Plan… Public Comment Period July 7-August 7, 2015
Federal regulations require Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to develop a new Long Range Transportation Plan at least every five years. In the summer of 2013, the VLMPO kicked-off the latest effort to plan for a multi-modal transportation system through the region for the year 2040. The plan will address:
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Navy beats Army with 42 MW solar farm at Kings Bay
Is this sub base solar farm bigger than the 30 MW ones Georgia Power is building at three Army bases in Georgia? Actually that’s 42 MW DC in and 30 MW AC out, so the same as the Army bases.
Navy Chief of Information Office, 13 July 2015, Navy and Georgia Power Ink Deal to Build 42 MW Solar Farm at SUBASE Kings Bay,
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNS) — The Department of the Navy (DON) announced today a signed real estate outgrant with Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, to develop a large-scale, solar generation farm at Naval Submarine Base (SUBASE) Kings Bay.
The 42 megawatt (MW) direct current (DC) facility will be constructed on Continue reading
Airport Authority Budget Request discussed and approved @ LCC 2015-07-14
Not on the agenda, discussed for fifteen minutes, then suddenly
approved:
more funding for the Airport Authority,
at the
14 July 2015 Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.
Which was similar to the previous morning’s transportation study
discussion, except the Commission didn’t vote that time on any possibility
of funding that one.
TSA has reduced the amount of money it gives to small airports like Valdosta and in order to have Continue reading
Videos: Airport, appointments, well and septic, road naming, and evidence @ LCC 2015-07-14
Tuesday’s surprise report
was on airport funding,
followed by an unscheduled vote for funding.
They also reappointed Dr. Martha Giddens to the Lowndes County Division of Family and Children Services Board, approved two well and septic rezonings, passed Lowndes County Road Naming Resolution and Procedure that they haven’t published even though it’s because a Commissioner said citizens requested it, and the latest in the long-running Juvenile Justice Court diversionary program grant contract.
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Transportation explained to Lowndes County Commission @ LCC 2015-07-13
The county asked SGRC a bunch of questions about the $15,957 public transit and trucking studies at yesterday morning’s Work Session that they didn’t ask about the $16,915 they spent two weeks ago to upgrade a water main to subsize a developer. Commissioners seemed to think VLMPO hadn’t involved them in planning the study proposals, when in fact their own Chairman and County Manager and Engineer had been involved all along, plus five county-appointed citizens.
County Manager Joe Pritchard said Commissioner Joyce Evans and
Chairman Bill Slaughter had asked him to get the Southern Georgia Regional
Commission (SGRC) to explain its proposed transportation studies.
He also introduced Lisa Crib, whom he said was the new SGRC Executive Director.
Corey Hull spoke for SGRC, saying he first wanted to know their questions. Chairman Bill Slaughter asked: Continue reading
Videos: Transportation, appointments, well and septic, road naming, and evidence @ LCC 2015-07-13
A
surprise report on public transportation trucking by VLMPO Corey Hull
yesterday morning at 8:30 AM.
They vote today at 5:30 PM
on this agenda
for
reappointing Dr. Martha Giddens to the Lowndes County Division of Family and Children Services Board, two
well and
septic rezonings,
Lowndes County Road Naming Resolution and Procedure that they haven’t published even though
it’s because a Commissioner said citizens requested it,
and the latest in the long-running
Juvenile Justice Court diversionary program grant contract. Continue reading
100% renewable energy for U.S. by 2050
Here’s how to convert everything from air conditioners to trucks
from fossil fuels to 100% renewable sun, wind, and water power by 2050,
generating more jobs than would be lost from dirty energy,
stopping tens of thousands of premature deaths from pollution,
saving about 4% of U.S. GDP, plus saving $3.3 trillion worldwide
climate change costs.
That’s 100% as in no coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, or biomass, just clean solar, wind, and water power: 90% by 2035, 80% by 2030, and 25% by 2025. No new technology required: just existing solar, wind, and water power production with batteries and hydrogen fuel cells for transportation, plus huge efficiency savings both from using electricity directly and through other well-known techniques.
A cleaner, healthier world is within our reach. And when even the country’s most corrupt legislature can unanimously pass and the Georgia governor who took campaign funds from six pipeline companies can sign a solar financing law, while Georgia has already become the fastest-growing solar market in the country, renewable energy is producing the political will to get this done.
Stanford Report, 8 June 2015, Continue reading