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Yes - the energy crisis. Well, it all started around the time I was born. Folks then thought it would be brief, that it was just a political or technical problem, that soon everything would get back to normal. They didn’t stop to think that “normal,” in the longer-term historical sense, meant living on the energy budget of incoming sunlight and of the vegetative growth of the biosphere. Perversely, they thought “normal” meant using fossil energy like there was no tomorrow. And, I guess, there almost wasn’t. That was a classic self-confirming expectation - nearly.

Do not miss this amazing dialectic from the future…. read at your own risk….

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Citizens Vote Yes…
Amazingly pathetic Tallahassee… how irresponsible, how sad.

November 17
The results are in and city voters said “yes” to the City’s participation in the North Florida Power Project (NFPP), the Leon County Supervisor of Elections announced Thursday at 8:15 p.m. “There was a lot of passion surrounding this debate” a passion for doing what all sides thought was the right thing for Tallahassee,” said Tallahassee Mayor John Marks, III. “I’m proud that we have such an active, engaged community, and I know that we will all come together to continue making Tallahassee an even better place. “I am pleased,” Marks continued, “that a majority of the voters believe that the City’s participation in the North Florida Power Project can provide for an economically sound and environmentally safe energy future.”

About 32 percent of registered City voters, or about 32,000 people, returned ballots in a spe! cial referendum asking whether the City should be allowed to participate in the NFPP, a coal-fired power plant being built in Taylor County. A “yes” vote won nearly 60 percent of the vote, according to the Supervisor of Elections Office. “I’m so pleased that the community sees the value in having a say in a coal plant being built 50 miles away from us, and in keeping our options open to diversify our fuel sources,” City Manager Anita Favors Thompson. “While it may be that ultimately, this plant is not the selected option, it is prudent of the voters to allow the City to further consider it. And now, we will have a say in the design and permitting of the plant until the City Commission determines if this is the best option.”

The NFPP will remain an option in the ongoing Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) process, in which City staff analyze hundreds of generation and conservation strategies in order to create a long-term energy plan. Several options for the long-term ! plan are anticipated to be presented to the City Commission in spring 2006. “The ‘yes’ vote will not prevent the City Commission from keeping its commitment to renewable energy sources and conservation,” said Mayor Marks. “I think there’s a lot we can do there, and our staff will continue to work with the Big Bend Climate Action Team (BBCAT) and other environmental and community groups to find ways to integrate more renewables and conservation into our energy mix.”