Pacific Spirit Marine Institute
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Alabama Governor Bob Riley has written a 3 page letter to G.W.Bush asking that he deny Georgia’s Governor’s request for presidential emergency actions.
Them’z fightin’ word’z!
Riley paints Perdue as an out and out liar. In his letter to the President he characterizes Perdue’s pleas for Divine presidential intervention as merely being a contest between people versus endangered mussels. Riley says “Nothing could be further from the truth.”
Riley paints Perdue as an out and out liar. In his letter to the President he characterizes Perdue’s pleas for Divine presidential intervention as merely being a contest between people versus endangered mussels. Riley says “Nothing could be further from the truth.”
In my book, the thing furthest from the truth would be a lie. A horrible, bald faced lie. And so it begins, as the planet heats up, the turf wars heat up. Yikes!
Suffering a melt down?
Riley is so opposed to Georgia obtaining Federal intervention into it’s drought predicament that he reminds the president such action would not be safe.
If Georgia is allowed to keep it’s water in Lake Lanier there could be a nuclear event. Riley states, “Georgia ignores the fact that the Farley Nuclear Plant sits on the banks of the Chattahoochee River and requires cooling water at the nuclear plant.” Riley goes on, “If Georgia obtained the presidential action it seeks, then there would likely be inadequate cooling water for the nuclear plant.”
“That is obviously something that cannot be allowed to happen.”
Never miss the chance to overstate the obvious?
Riley does make it sound as though there isn’t any way to back off or shut down Farley temporarily and that a slow down of industrial activity along the Chattahoochee River would be tantamount to the end of Alabama.
Wouldn’t saving one of America’s major cities trump some temporary economic hardships that would be taken by industry?
The cloud of hurricane Katrina hangs over questions such as those.
Some people did learn from Katrina. Northeast Georgia Medical Center isn’t going to be caught waiting for the federal government to come and save them in a disaster. Kevin Matson, safety and emergency preparedness coordinator at the Center says a contingency plan will be submitted to the Georgia Division of Public Health. Part of the plan would be to bring in tanks of non potable water for toilet flushing.
Hope springs eternal if the faucet doesn’t!
Jackie Joseph, president of the Lake Lanier Association, tosses a brighter spin on the drought, “There are some people who are trying to look at the bright side and say, well, the lake has filled up before, it can do it again.” She goes on, “Our leaders didn’t seem to learn much from the last drought in 1999-2002.”
Yep, yep…Things are different this time though.
Governor Sonny Perdue is declaring North Georgia a disaster area and asking President Bush for federal assistance.
FEMA, Bush, Disaster… not a successful combination.
If Atlanta thinks it holds any more importance to the nation than New Orleans held they may want to reconsider that sentiment.
Labels: Alabama, Atlanta, Endangered species act, FEMA, Global Warming, Governor Riley, Lake Lanier, Water, drought
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Alabama Governor Bob Riley Ready to Face Off With Drought Strickened Georgia!
