Recreational Water Use Advisory Issued

Leona Helmsley’s dog will continue to live an opulent life, and then be buried alongside her in a mausoleum. But two of Helmsley’s grandchildren got nothing from the late luxury hotelier and real estate billionaire’s estate.

One of the foremost experts on politics in the Granite State thinks she has found the next critical constituency: military moms.

In response to this thread:  Commissioner Misleading About County Involvement

Police officers, who have become standard fixtures in high schools across the county, will now be stationed in every middle school in Charles County as well.

Group leaders find it’s not an easy sell

Report urges more security

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Update to this thread:  Which version is accurate? and this thread:  Here is the truth in black and white

is today, Wednesday, August 29 at 7 p.m. Members may register to vote from 3 to 7

Overview

On June 21, 2007 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to strengthen the official “limit” on ground level ozone smog. Unfortunately, EPA’s proposal fails to follow the law and protect public health adequately from this widespread and dangerous air pollutant. Overwhelming scientific evidence, including reviews by independent scientists, confirm that public health is seriously at risk and needs much more protection. EPA will take comments until October 9, including at five public hearings in August and September. The American Lung Association and many other medical societies, public health and environmental groups are urging EPA to adopt standards that provide much more protection.

If you haven’t seen the Discovery Channel series called “Ecotech”, you should. Set up to record them and watch them As I watched the other night, they showed 4 different environmentally friendly ways that people were generating electricity without pollution, and for profit, there was a quote:

” There is no energy crisis, There is a crisis in lack of imagination.” - Buckminster Fuller
Fuller was a brilliant man, an inventor, an industrialist, a futurist.

What we have here in Charles County is a lack of imagination. We sit next to a powerful river, whose power we could harness for electricity without any environmental impact. Instead, we are slated to become the coal-fired power plant capital of the world.  I have no doubt that there are secret plans for more coal plants. We all know about the planned Indian Head Plant. Some months ago, I was at a meeting where Commissioners Cooper and Patterson spoke, just a day or two after the Indian Head plant story had broken in the Independent. They stated that the news had been leaked, that we (the public)  were never supposed to know about it. He was saying this to try to calm people down, by saying that the plant was years in the future.

The rumblings about “economic development” in Welcome (also a quote from Commissioner Patterson) and another coal-fired plant perhaps for Blossom Point in Welcome are getting stronger. Why do we have such a lack of imagination on the part of our leaders?

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Members of SPPOA are very unhappy about the visual plume that the new stack will produce and feel it will have a negative impact on their property values.

According to the ruling, the new stack which will be built on the additional 427-acre site “…will not have an adverse effect on the visual quality of the Morgantown site.”

The PSC attributes this logic to the fact that the new stack will be 400 feet which is smaller than the two existing 700 foot stacks and therefore somehow visually negligible.  The plume of water vapor, however, will reach higher than the existing stacks and has the potential to blow across the Governor Nice Bridge.

“My concern was the amount of steam generated, blowing across the bridge and making it ice over in the winter.  I’d have thought the [State Highway Association] would have expressed concern about a traffic hazard,” said Board of Commissioners President, F. Wayne Cooper (D). [The Bay Net]

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