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Georgia Power is seeking permission from their regulators, our 5 elected Georgia Public Service Commissioners, to increase natural gas usage and postpone promised coal plant retirements for years. This blatantly ignores the urgent call from the worldwide scientific community to rapidly phase out fossil fuel use in order to prevent additional global warming and increasingly catastrophic climate impacts.
The Commissioners are seeking public input as they decide whether to grant or deny Georgia Power's request. We need to let them know that Georgians are opposed to this continued dependence on expensive and harmful fossil fuels and want low-cost and reliable clean energy instead. Numbers matter! Please make a quick written comment now and encourage your friends and family to do the same. Your comment will be officially included in the hearing docket and will be accessible to media and others who can report on the growing numbers of Georgia citizens expressing their support for clean energy. The mass of voices is key - thousands of public comments would get local, and possibly national media attention, increasing the pressure on Commissioners to vote for clean energy solutions!
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Sample comments.
SAMPLE ONE: Georgia Power’s failure to align their policies and practices with what the science shows is required to avoid catastrophic harm to people and the planet is a colossal dereliction of duty and a mounting liability risk. Please, fulfill your duty. Act to keep us safe. Exercise your authority to require Georgia Power to make heavy investments in clean renewable energy, battery storage, and demand side management, and not in additional fossil fuels that will only make the problem worse. You must act now. Later is too late.
SAMPLE TWO: Our future is literally in your hands. Please don’t allow Georgia Power to delay the retirement of coal plants. Climate scientists say that we must rapidly move away from all fossil fuels in order to avoid climate disaster. Burning coal is the least economical, most unhealthy, and most climate destructive way of generating electricity. Instead, please require that Georgia Power invest in clean energy solutions and energy efficiency measures.
SAMPLE THREE: An important part of your mission statement is to provide safe electricity to Georgia consumers. There is nothing safe about generating that electricity using fossil fuels. That process has become an existential threat to our safety due to the undisputed impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on our planet. For this reason, we are asking you to reject Georgia Power’s updated IRP proposal and require them to instead make major investments in clean renewable energy production, battery storage, and energy efficiency programs.
SAMPLE FOUR: Georgia Power needs to help clean up this huge climate mess that they have helped to create. Instead, they are acting as if it is business as usual and ignoring the worldwide scientific community's urgent call to rapidly reduce fossil fuel use. You can help get Georgia Power to take the right actions in the essential time frame. Actually, you’re the only 5 people in Georgia who can. Cities and counties across Georgia are committing to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, investing money and energy to do so. But they don’t have the authority to make Georgia Power provide them with the clean electricity that is essential for reaching those goals. You do.