[NukeNet] Florida Update. The Florida Allaince for a Clean Environment
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Minimushomines at aol.com
Mon Jul 23 23:39:00 EDT 2007
Dear Friend,
FYI
I sent this update to those who, to this point, have decided to stand with
us in this years grassroots effort, under the banner of The Florida Alliance
for a Clean Environment, to petition the powers that be in Florida, including
Governor Crist, to craft a clean energy policy for Florida. Misconception #1
should be of interest to fellow anti nuke friends. Misconception #3 might
interest many of the anti burn grassroots people.
I attended the Governors climate change summit July 11 and 12 and was able
to speak with him briefly at dinner about the letter and petition. He was very
considerate, after listening to my comments about the letter and petition
and my compliments on his efforts with the exception of nuclear, he stopped me
from returning to my table and asked me to take a minute to explain what I
found wrong with his position on nuclear. He thinks it's a good option. I said
we need to asses the full profile of nuclear, detailing the front end and
disposal aspects. He said he would read our letter and petition.
I'll follow up to make sure it gets around in his office. He seems like a
nice guy. Hopefully he'll do many good things. We plan to stay with the issue.
BK
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We're getting a nice response.
The petition will be circulating until mid August and then we'll deliver it
to the relevant politicos, administrators and the Governor as part of our
campaign to make Florida green.
Since the Governor was holding a climate change summit on July 11 and 12 we
decided to send him our position prior to the Summit so he and others would
understand that the positions we advocate were ours prior to the Summit
discussions.
I've included the cover letter we sent the Governor, et all, along with the
points mentioned in the petition. As you'll see I mentioned the petition was
still in the circulation.
A representative of a grass roots group in Northern Florida requested more
information about who we, The Florida Alliance for a Clean Environment are so
I'll be sending out a history for any who might have similar questions.
Also, If your one of the many that signed on without giving your address
please send it so the Governor will know your a real person that actually exist.
Once again thanks for your support. More to come.
Bob Krasowski
President, Project coordinator,
The Florida Alliance for a Clean Environment
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July 8, 2007
An Open Letter From
The Florida Alliance for a Clean Environment
1086 Michigan Avenue,
Naples, Florida 34103
To the Honorable Governor Charlie Crist,
Governor of the State of Florida,
The Capitol,
Tallahassee, Florida
Dear Governor Crist,
et all cc,
It is with considerable concern and enthusiastic hopefulness that I send my
regards and deliver to you the energy options evaluation / program
implementation strategy advocated by The Florida Alliance for a Clean Environment.
We respectfully urge that you, your staff and the others noticed take a
moment to review this strategy and give our recommendations serious consideration
as you proceed with crafting a new Florida State energy plan.
We are aware of the many efforts made toward developing an understanding of
where Florida’s energy policy is today and where it may be in the future.
To qualify our understanding of the issues I'd like to mention that, over
the course of last few years, we have attended many Florida House and Senate
committee meetings, have addressed our local Legislative Delegations, attended
meetings of the esteemed Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida, the
respectfully appointed, mostly status quo Energy Commission and three of its
four Sub Committees, we have communicated with the affable Mr. Sole of The
Department of Environmental Protection, and two of our board members
participated, representing themselves as rate payers, in the formal hearings held at the
Florida Public Service Commission regarding the needs determination hearings
for the Glades power park proposal. Also, as part of our study of the issue
we have read among other documents and reports; bills and laws relating to
the State’s energy and environmental position, many studies done by the Florida
Solar Energy Center, The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
reports one and two and various analysis of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change reports.
Our considerable concern stems from what we see as the acceptance of certain
misinformation or incomplete information regarding the characteristics of
several of the energy options available to the State. This is why we implore
you to adopt the option analysis, implementation strategy we present to you at
this time.
We applaud your interest in moving forward with a plan to implement a clean
energy policy on behalf of the people and natural resources of the State of
Florida but we must be resolute in our position that all decisions be based on
accurate complete information.
The most glaring examples (there are others) of incomplete or misinformation
are;
1) The misconception that nuclear energy is a clean, renewable, non CO 2 or
other pollutant producing source of energy. This idea can only be held if we
continue to use the tunnel vision of old in our evaluation of the nuclear
option not taking into consideration the energy used and pollutants created at
the front end of the process during the mining and processing of the fuel. Not
to mention the ever present issue of waste product management and disposal.
2) The misconception that integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) coal
technology represents “clean coal”. This process still requires the
decimation of other environs to satisfy our energy wants and is often confusingly
considered with the automatic inclusion of carbon capture and sequestration.
Capture and sequestration are not yet available on any substantial scale and
have issues onto themselves that need to be thoroughly analyzed as to their
safety and the parasitic energy drawdown they impose on any facility that may
use them, if they ever become a reality.
3) The misconception that incineration of municipal solid waste, via any
thermal process used, for energy recovery provides an economic or
environmentally sound method of energy extraction. There are many scientific studies that
prove otherwise. Also municipal solid waste is not a renewable resource.
4) The misconception that an energy plan can not be crafted for the people
of the State of Florida without the proliferation of new polluting power
plants.
The many people and organizations we work with to conduct our research and
information gathering, may not be the same institutionalized environmental
groups that you have been hearing from to date but the people who we work with
provide have along with us been active participants in the relevant
environmental/economic, environomic, discussions of our times for the past thirty
years, plus.
Our advocacy statement is presently being circulated as a petition and will
be re-sent to you after time has been provided for people to sign on but we
wanted to get it to you before your climate change conference convenes.
Our enthusiastic hopefulness stems from our continued sense that you will
rise to the occasion and do the right thing; heed our call for the adoption of
the processes we advocate in The Florida Alliance for a Clean Environment’s
energy option evaluation / program implementation strategy plan. It is only
with complete and accurate information that the people and the environment of
Florida will get the energy policy they need and deserve. A policy based on
fact and complete not partial truths.
Respectfully,
For The Florida Alliance for a Clean Environment
Bob Krasowski
President, Project coordinator,
_Alliance4Cleanfl at aol.com_ (mailto:Alliance4Cleanfl at aol.com)
239-963-6285
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The Florida Alliance for a Clean Environment,
petition for energy option profiles and program implementation strategy.
Dear Governor Crist,
et all cc,
The ability to make the correct choices and decisions necessary to assure a
good result from any effort to design a new Florida State Energy Plan is
contingent on having accurate and complete information on all the options
available.
The Florida Alliance for a Clean Environment advocates for 1) the creation
of individual energy option profiles that will make clear the characteristics
of all efficiency, energy, fuel and transportation options available to the
People of Florida, 2) the performance of a comparative analysis of all
profiled options 3) the establishment of a hierarchy of options 4) the development of
an action plan, based on the hierarchy, for implementation as the new
Florida State Energy Plan and 5) a temporary moratorium on the building of any new
or expansion of existing polluting power generating facilities.
We call for serious and equal consideration of all efficiency opportunities,
decentralized power strategies and clean truly renewable energy generating
options. A complete analysis, evaluation and discussion of cap and trade,
carbon fees, and energy/building code standards should work through this
evaluation process as well.
It is our hope, Governor Crist, that you the Peoples’ Governor, along with
your dynamic Cabinet members, Legislators, Public Service Commission,
Department of Environmental Protection, other policy or rule makers and those
participating on behalf of the State of Florida as members of the Century Commission
for a Sustainable Florida, The Florida Energy Commission and their Sub
Committees will insist that the highest level of scientific analytical integrity
and public participation be maintained throughout this process. We are aware
of the many good efforts made to date by you and many of your associates. We
are resolute in our call for you, and all others associated with your efforts,
to employ the processes we've identified below during your analysis of all
energy options available to Florida.
We advocate:
1) The creation of a complete profile of each and every energy saving or
energy producing option available to the People of the State of Florida. These
analytical profiles must provide “cradle to grave” detailed information on
the energy input/output ratio, cost/benefit analysis, full cost accounting (to
include disposal or recycling of byproducts and the product itself), health
and environmental impact analysis for all options. The profile would give
detailed information from the point where the fuel for any given technology or
the materials for any given energy related product are extracted to the point
where the power is created or saved. Building design, lighting, appliances;
subterranean temperature exchange systems, solar, wind, ocean current, other
clean renewables; transportation options and fuels; coal (of any technology),
Mixed Municipal Solid Waste to Energy burners (of any type), Nuclear, or Gas
(synthetic or natural), represent some of the options to be profiled.
2) The performance of a thorough comparative analysis of all the profiled
options, providing for a clear understanding of the unique characteristics of
each option. This will allow a determination to be made as to the various
options relative values in terms of costs/ benefits, effectiveness, efficiencies,
health and environmental impacts, etcetera.
3) The establishment of a hierarchal listing of the options, putting the
most efficient, least polluting first then listing the clean truly renewable
energy generating options next and so on.
4) The development of an action plan to schedule the implementation of each
option as listed on the hierarchy list, most efficient, least polluting
first, each option being fully implemented to the greatest degree possible before
moving on to the next until there is no further need to implement those
remaining.
5) The establishment of a temporary moratorium on the construction of any
new or expanded polluting power generating facility. This would stand until the
aforementioned processes have been carried out and it is determined how the
State will proceed.
Respectfully,
For The Florida Alliance for a Clean Environment
Bob Krasowski
President, Project coordinator,
_Alliance4Cleanfl at aol.com_ (mailto:Alliance4Cleanfl at aol.com) 239-963-6285
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