Comment: The Gov of VA is clueless and is the mouthpiece for the nukes and oil groupies. Check the monies given to the Gov. The dude has never has his own thoughts or ideas. I know someone wjho ask him if VA should go to solar power. The Gov said the sun is not strong in VA and will not support solar (he really said this while looking at his campaign manager) while that someone disagree with him because people in Washington state use solar power all the time and it rains there all the time. Well, he looks like a deer in car headlights, clueless. The Gov would love to blow up the hills in VA for uranium; the pro uranium group also has him in their grips too. Gov of VA, go back to your polluted home state PA! No to u mining and milling!
16 October 2010
I just returned from the "Governor's" Conference on Energy and here are some highlights:
#1) Bob McDonnell claims this is the first of these conferences. Not true, people have been attending energy conferences on this weekend in Richmond for years!
#2) Bob McDonnell says Virginia should look at "all the above". But he starts with coal, natural gas, nuclear, off shore oil then wind, solar and biomass. He is proud of the fact that he was in line to be the first Governor to have big oil slide there long pipes in our wet and wind off shore areas. Virginia's off shore oil is extremely limited and very dangerous to extract. He is dead wrong on this and we should fight him on it.
#3) Bob McDonnell thinks the Uranium in southside should be dug up ASAP. Screw the peons who live there.
#4) There were a number of presentations that repeated the call for mandated renewable energy standards. It was repeatedly stressed that the lack of a mandate in Virginia, unlike our neighbor states, is hampering renewable development in the state.
Read more:
http://zeroenergyconstruction.blogspot.com/2010/10/governors-conference-on-energy.html
