How about we recognize every place is
the worst place for the water-risking land-taking hazardous methane pipeline,
and get on with
sun, wind, and water to power Florida, Georgia, Alabama,
and
all the other states?
According to
Stanford University researchers,
we can do that, and we can do it 100% by 2050, using
technology that’s already available.
For Florida, that’s 20% rooftop solar PV (half residential and half commercial and governmental),
47.9% solar PV plants, 10% concentrating solar plants, 5% onshore wind, 15% offshore wind, 1% each wave and tide, 0.1% hydroelectric.
So that’s 77.9% sun, 20% wind, 1% wave, 1% tide, and 0.1% hydro.
Requiring 0% nuclear, 0% coal, and 0% natural gas.
That’s right, Florida doesn’t need methane to shut down coal and nukes.
All the Sunshine State needs is sun, wind, and water.
With 355,500 construction jobs and 149,000 operation jobs,
$20.1 billion or 3% of Florida’s GDP saved in avoided health costs,
2,210 Floridans not dead from air pollution.
Oh, and 42.9% less energy used over all,
plus energy costs to customers cut more than in half.
Who are you going to believe?
Researchers at Stanford who have no financial stake in the outcome?
Or pipeline companies and utility companies that stand to profit from
taking Continue reading Less cost, more jobs, and better health with sun, wind, and water power for Florida, or a dirty destructive methane pipeline? →
Robert W. Hastings, Alabama Sierra Club contact for
the joint Alabama, Georgia, and Florida Sierra Club statement
against the pipeline,
and author of
a FERC ecomment against the pipeline,
was elected Chairman of the Alabama Chapter 9 March 2014.
Seems like everyone wants to build a pipeline these days. I’m sure almost everyone has heard about the Keystone XL pipeline, and our Mobile Group has done a good job of publicizing their opposition to the oil pipeline to be constructed through a major water supply area for the city of Mobile. But there are several other pipelines being proposed for Alabama. One of these is the so-called Sabal Trail Pipeline that would carry natural gas extracted through hydraulic fracturing from Pennsylvania and Texas through Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. The new pipeline would begin in Alexander City, where it Continue reading Alabama Sierra Club against the Sabal Trail methane pipeline
