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Weigh in on the Governor's energy plan
UPDATE: The EQC public hearing has been postponed due to the weather!!
From the EQC website:
Due to the inclement weather, the Environmental Quality Commission public forum for tonight (January 29) has been postponed. A majority of the videoconferencing sites that were planned for the meeting are closed. As soon as the meeting has been rescheduled, a notice will be placed on the Web site with the date, time and locations.
Tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. the Kentucky Environmental Quality Commission is hosting a public forum to discuss Governor Beshear's recently released energy plan. Citizens from around the state will be able to participate in the forum via video conference at five locations (see below). While there are some good ideas in the governor's energy plan, much of it will keep our state moving in the wrong direction, including proposals that would lead to huge increases in coal extraction and more mountaintop removal mining. KFTC has just released a response to the plan with a point by point analysis of his proposals and how they fall short, and ideas for improvement.
In addition to time for public comments, discussions of upcoming legislative issues and mountaintop removal mining are expected. If you would like to preregister to speak during the public comment portion of the agenda, please contact:
Johnna McHugh
Director of Operations
Environmental Quality Commission
(502) 564-2674 ext. 121
johnna.mchugh@ky.gov
If you are able, please read our response and attend the hearing so that our voices can be heard in this debate. Kentucky needs bold, new ideas to be a player in this new energy economy. We cannot afford to continue down the same path we've been on, laying waste to our mountains and polluting our water and air.
FRANKFORT
Kentucky State University
Academic Services Building, 5th Floor
PIKEVILLE
Pikeville College
Community Technology Center, Room 134
Hambley Boulevard
BOWLING GREEN
Western Kentucky University
Media and Technology Hall, Room 279
LOUISVILLE (this is a change from an earlier location)
University of Louisville
Miller Information Technology Center (MITC), Room 55.
Enter the campus from the Third Street entrance onto the circle. The
West Information Center will be on your right. At the West Information
Center you will be directed to the parking lot and will be given
directions to the building, if needed. MITC is a 3-minute walk from the
parking lot.
RICHMOND
Eastern Kentucky University
University Building, Room 135
University Drive
Thank you for taking action!
nuclear power policy
Your comment about nuclear waste are with out fact or perspective. Spent nuclear fuel is always shielded and isolated from the public. Annual waste from one typical reactor could fit in the bed of a standard pickup. The retired fuel from 50 years of U.S. reactor operation could fit into a single football field: its amount to 77,000 tons. A large coal-fired plant produces ten times as much solid waste in one day, much of it is hazardous to health. We also discard 179,000 tons of batteries annually- they contain toxic heavy metals.
Additionally nuclear “waste” has the most outstanding Hazmat safety record of any other safety record. It is inappropriate to scare Kentuckians by saying spent fuel casks pose a severe threats to the community. The casks are vertically indestructible (feel free to look up the D.O.E. test of fuel cask on YOUTUBE), and its contents is not a bomb waiting to go off as many people would like to believe.
KFTC has done an outstanding service to the commonwealth with their efforts in voting rights an mountain top removal. Yet due to your groups lack of understanding I strongly believe nuclear power policy should not be apart of your organization.
~ Adam R. Cooper