Jim Probst: Mr. Pruitt, we do know our ideal temperature (Gazette)
OP-ED March 19, 2018
In a recent interview, Scott Pruitt, the head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, questioned if global warming is “necessarily a bad thing.” He went on to say that it is fairly arrogant of us to think that we know what the ideal surface temperature should be in 2100.
Well Mr. Pruitt, there are things that are known and commonly accepted when it comes to “ideal” surface temperature. As head of the EPA, it seems that you should be aware of these facts. Our earth is classified as a “Goldilocks Planet,” that is a planet that is not too hot or too cold to allow for liquid water. We fit that classification because of our distance from the sun and because we have an atmosphere whose composition helps to retain a portion of the energy we receive from our sun.
Human activity is changing the makeup of our atmosphere so that more of the sun’s energy is being retained and our planet is warming. It’s pretty basic stuff.
Responding to the question of an “ideal” temperature, climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe responded, “there is no one perfect temperature for the earth, but there is one for us humans, and that’s the temperature we’ve had over the past few thousand years when we built our civilization, agriculture, economy and infrastructure. Global average temperature over the past few millennia has fluctuated by a few tenths of a degree, today, it’s risen by nearly 1 degree centigrade, [1.8 degrees Fahrenheit] and counting.”
Mr. Pruitt also continues to advocate for what he calls a red team-blue team exercise that would somehow establish a consensus on the “key” issues surrounding climate change. The thing is that this work has already been done by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which was established in 1989, during the George H.W. Bush administration, to “assist the nation and the world to understand, assess, predict and respond to human-induced and natural processes of climate change.”
This group released its fourth report in 2017, and the following Trump administration departments participated: Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, State, Transportation, NASA, National Science Foundation, Smithsonian, U.S. Agency for International Development and, last but not least, the EPA.
It seems like you might have been provided a copy of the report, Mr. Pruitt. A short list of some of the conclusions reached in this report includes:
n The period from 1901-2016 is now the warmest in the history of modern civilization.
n Emissions of greenhouse gases are the dominant cause of the observed warming.
n Thousands of studies from around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric and oceanic temperatures — melting glaciers, diminishing snow cover, shrinking sea ice, rising sea levels, ocean acidification and increasing atmospheric water vapor.
n Heavy rainfall is increasing in intensity and frequency across the U.S. and globally and is expected to continue to increase.
n Heat waves are becoming more frequent and the incidence of forest fires has become more frequent since the 1980s.
n Without major reductions in our greenhouse gas emissions, we could be looking at as much as a 9 degree increase in global average temperature by the end of this century.
Already, we have seen more than 3,500 people die in a heat wave in India and Pakistan in 2015. Can you imagine what we will be witnessing with that level of increased temperature?
In 2014, the Department of Defense stated that climate change “will likely lead to food and water shortages, pandemic disease, disputes over refugees and resources, and destruction by natural disasters in regions across the globe.”
In closing, I would like to respond to one last statement from Mr. Pruitt. In the same interview, he is quoted as saying that, “this agency for the last several years has been more focused on what might be happening in 2100, as opposed to what is happening today.”
With all of the information we have available as to what kind of a world we are leaving for those that come behind us, I find that statement to be the very definition of short-sightedness.
Last Updated: April 29, 2023 by main_y0ke11
Work to fight climate change
Parkersburg News and Sentinel – Aug 19, 2018 Eric Engle –
Dangerous anthropogenic (human-caused) global climate change is upon us. It is not just a threat to be feared down the road, but is a reality here and now.
Europe and Japan are boiling under record-breaking heatwaves; the American West is burning; we have seen record-breaking hurricanes and precipitation events completely ravage Puerto Rico, Texas and Florida, and in Puerto Rico we now know that over 1,400 people died after Hurricane Maria on the soil of an American territory. Almost a year later, many remain without power.
Attribution science now allows the global scientific community to very accurately assess the degree to which the variable of anthropogenic global climate change is a factor in weather events. For example, researchers at Columbia University and the University of Idaho have found that climate change has more than doubled the forest fire areas in the western U.S. since 1984 by causing warmer and drier conditions.
With dangerous climate change already here, what we must work to do is stop catastrophic climate change or, worse yet, existential climate change (the point at which climate change threatens human existence itself). On our current trajectory, we are not set to stop catastrophic or eventually existential climate change at all.
What does stopping the climate catastrophe mean? For one thing, it means we cannot afford an Appalachian Storage and Trading Hub in the Ohio Valley with its hundreds of miles of pipelines, thousands of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) sites and processing facilities, and underground storage of petrochemicals and fracked gas liquids — every stage of natural gas development from extraction to transport to storage to use releases an enormous amount of methane, a heat-trapping greenhouse gas 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. It also means that we cannot continue to burn coal, the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gas release, for energy at places like Pleasants Power Station.
Our future must be in renewable energy (especially solar and wind energy) with battery and other storage capacity; in the zero emission electrification of all land, sea and air transport; in maximum energy efficiency; and in sustainable development and agriculture. Going this direction will have the added benefits of creating more jobs, repairing our crumbling infrastructure, saving countless lives and improving the health of countless people by reducing air and water pollution, and helping us address our enormous waste problems, especially from plastics.
The public policies, investments, technologies, knowledge and capabilities all exist … all that is lacking is the political and social will.
Eric Engle
Parkersburg
Last Updated: April 29, 2023 by main_y0ke11
Mother nature can’t keep up with man’s CO2
Jul 28, 2018 Editorial by David Ballantyne, Newport, Ohio The Marietta Times
I have been honored to teach climate science in the public schools the past two years.
My experience with students is that most generally believe that climate change is a natural process which has been occurring throughout earth history. Surveys of adults indicate that they overwhelmingly believe the same and I happen to agree with them. Thus, when teaching I make this my starting point – the Natural Causes of Climate Change.
The climate of any location on Earth is related to its distance and angle from the sun. The closer to the sun and the more direct the angle the warmer the climate.
Everyone is familiar with the sun being lower on the horizon in winter and higher in summer. That change is caused by the earth’s tilt in relation to the sun. As nearly every student knows, the North Pole is pointed at the North Star in both summer and winter. Thus, the Earth cycles annually in its relationship (angle) to the Sun to maintain a constant stellar relationship.
What causes natural climate change; slow, gradual, cyclical changes in this tilt angle plus the ovality of Earth’s orbit. These changes are small with extremely long cycles, measured in many thousands of years.
These changes do not change the overall amount of solar energy being received from the Sun. They merely redistribute the energy for the location received, and they change the length and severity of the four seasons.
These orbital cycles additionally impact ocean currents, ocean temperatures and polar freezing and thawing. While the orbital changes are the “trigger” for natural climate change, it is the ocean temperature driven changes in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere which is the “bullet” causing surface temperatures to change. Because these changes are cyclical, they and their impacts change naturally back in the other direction.
All of the preceding is described in Dr. James Hansen’s, 7-23-2015 paper titled, “Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: …” Dr. Hansen is lead U.S. Representative to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The oceans play an important role in Earth’s natural balance of atmospheric CO2. Overall, there are 100s of times more CO2 dissolved in ocean water than contained in the atmosphere. Similar to “soda pop,” the solubility of CO2 changes with water temperature. Warm water expels/releases CO2, while cold water absorbs increasing amounts of CO2.
With the orbital changes described above, the earth “re-balances” itself naturally. As Earth re-balances to warmer oceans, higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere cause additional warming due to the “Greenhouse Effect.”
This process continues until the orbital changes apex and turn in the other direction, diminishing their impacts. Four of the five “great extinctions” in Earth history are believed to have been caused by natural climate change – the exception being what we believe to be “a meteor strike.”
Now enters mankind. Humans through our respiratory processes are part of Earth’s natural CO2 rebalancing process. On the other hand, man also produces CO2 through our industrial processes. Mankind’s extra CO2 from industrial processes has no equivalent natural rebalancing mechanism. Mankind’s industrial activities release approximately 5.5 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually.
This is overwhelming nature’s ability to keep up. Eighty percent of this is the use of carbon fuels, and 20% is deforestation. Today, we are experiencing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere which nature has not experienced in more than 800,000 years.
Pure and simple, that is our climate dilemma, and the planet needs your help to address this.
David E. Ballantyne
Member of Mid-Ohio
Valley Climate Action
Newport
Last Updated: April 29, 2023 by main_y0ke11
2017: Changing minds about climate change
2017: Changing minds about climate change
May 19, 2018 Editorial by David Ballantyne, Newport, Ohio The Marietta Times
Dr. Bob Chase, a regular contributor to Marietta Times “Viewpoint” recently expressed belief in Methane and CO2 emissions as sources of human caused climate change. I am a regular reader of Dr. Chase’s letters, and that was the first time I’ve heard him say that. I thought that cause for celebration.
It is a pleasure to welcome Dr. Chase, emeritus professor and former Chairman of the Petroleum Engineering Department of Marietta College, to the view shared by the majority of Americans on this issue. It appears that 2017 was a particularly influential year for many. The damaging effects from various types of extreme weather (hot and cold, wet and dry), caused many Americans to re-think their views. It reminds me that in the Movie “The Day after Tomorrow” about Global Warming the victims froze to death.
The Climate Institutes of Yale and George Mason Universities have, in a joint effort been surveying Americans continuously since 2008 on beliefs towards Climate Change. The institutes publish a summary of their data twice a year. Their earliest conclusion from their fifteen-question survey was that there are “Six Americas” in public awareness and belief on this subject. They described these six as; Alarmed, Concerned, Cautious, Disengaged, Doubtful and Dismissive. In their twice annual summaries, they report the percentage of the population who’s beliefs are in each of these categories. As one might expect, most people are in the middle of this spectrum. You might speculate as to which adjective best describes your views. The percentages don’t change much from one report to another. However, the trend since 2015 is that while the highest and lowest groups have not changed much, those people in the middle groupings have moved steadily higher on the scale. In 2017, this trend accelerated. The following quotes are taken from the “executive summary” contained within the October 2017 report.
Seven in ten Americans (71%) think global warming is happening, an increase of eight percentage points since March 2015. Americans who think global warming is happening outnumber those who think it is not by more than 5 to 1.
Over half of Americans (54%) understand that global warming is mostly human-caused.
More than six in ten Americans (63%) say they are at least “somewhat worried” about global warming. About one in five (22%) are “very worried” about it – the highest levels since our surveys began, and twice the proportion that were “very worried” in March 2015.
Nearly two in three Americans (64%) think global warming is affecting weather in the United States, and one in three think weather is being affected “a lot” (33%), an increase of 8 percentage points since May 2017.
A majority of Americans think global warming made several extreme events in 2017 worse, including the heat waves in California (55%) and Arizona (51%), hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria (54%), and wildfires in the western U.S. (52%).
More than four in ten Americans (44%) say they have personally experienced the effects of global warming, an increase of 13 percentage points since March 2015.
Four in ten Americans (42%) think people in the United States are being harmed by global warming “right now.” The proportion that believes people are being harmed “right now” has increased by 10 percentage points since March 2015.
Half of Americans think they (50%) or their family (54%) will be harmed by global warming.
Two in three Americans (67%) say the issue of global warming is either “extremely” (12%), “very” (19%), or “somewhat” (37%) important to them personally, while one in three (33%) say it is either “not too” (19%) or “not at all” (14%) important personally. The proportion that say it is personally important has increased by 11 percentage points since March 2015.
Nearly four in ten Americans (38%) say they discuss global warming with family and friends “often” or “occasionally,” an increase of 12 percentage points since March 2015.
While opinion is not the same as Science, my belief and I hope those also of Dr. Chase now feel that the evidence and the documented science supports the above consensus.
David E Ballantyne
Newport, Ohio
Member of Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action
Last Updated: April 29, 2023 by main_y0ke11
Invest in Renewables
June 4, 2018 Letter-to-the-Editor by Eric Engle, Parkersburg, WV The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
A study released May 21 by the Rocky Mountain Institute found that “… regionally specific clean energy portfolios already outcompete proposed gas-fired generators, and/or threaten to erode their revenue within the next 10 years. Thus, the $112 billion of gas-fired power plants currently proposed or under construction, along with $32 billion of proposed gas pipelines to serve these power plants, are already at risk of becoming stranded assets.”
A Forbes article on the study states that “The authors alert ratepayers who may be saddled with the cost of stranded assets, and they urge gas-plant investors and regulators to reconsider planned natural gas plants and pipelines.”
Over 360,000 Americans are employed by the solar industry and growing. This is more than coal and nuclear combined. Over 105,000 Americans are employed by the wind industry and growing. The Department of Labor projects that the two fastest growing jobs through 2026 will be solar installer and wind turbine service technician. To quote a writer in The Hill news publication, “fossil fuels don’t even crack the top twenty.”
According to CNBC, a new survey from global auditing and consulting firm Deloitte found that “68 percent of electric power buyers said they are very concerned about climate change and their carbon footprint.”
Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action’s message is “Solar Works: More Solar = More Jobs.”
The future is now and the energy economy of West Virginia needs to catch up. Oil and gas development and petrochemical build out make no economic, environmental, health or safety sense. We must invest in and grow solar, wind, battery storage, water and energy efficiency in West Virginia today!
Eric Engle
Parkersburg
Last Updated: April 29, 2023 by main_y0ke11
Preserve and protect
Preserve and Protect
Parkersburg News and Sentinel – April 22, 2018
Today is Earth Day. Back in 1968, when Apollo astronauts were on a mission to identify landing sites on the moon, one of them accidentally turned back to earth and took the first picture of the earth from space. “Earth Rise” is an iconic image we all know. This one picture of our vibrant, beautiful, and fragile planet against the black void of space electrified people around the world. Within 18 months, the first Earth Day was celebrated worldwide. In the United States the Environmental Protection Agency was founded, and the Clean Air and Clean Water acts were passed with overwhelming majorities in Congress. This happened during Richard Nixon’s administration almost 50 years ago.
Before 1970 there were no rules or laws regulating pollution of our water and air. Both corporations and citizens treated our planet as an open sewer with no regard for the fact that we all share the earth’s water and atmosphere. That picture of earth from space said more than any words that we are all connected by our existence on this breathtaking planet, and that pollution in any part of the world affects my ability to have a healthy life as well as future generations.
While the actions to legislate consequences for polluters have cleaned up the environment somewhat, in the MOV we still live on the most polluted river in the United States. The burning of fossil fuels over the past 150 years has put so much greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that global systems are out of balance with what many species require to survive. Oceans have become more acid as the water absorbs the excess CO2. Shrinking ice caps and rising sea levels are visible from space. The Paris Climate Accords are the first ever global action plan that is at a scale that begins to address the scope of the problems we face, but not on a timeline to prevent the extinction of the majority of species alive today.
My grandfathers smoked tobacco back when we didn’t understand the effects of smoking on health. They were also coal miners and didn’t know the dangers that burning fossil fuels represented to our future. As we learn new facts, we know we must and can change our behavior to ensure our futures. For every one of us, it’s personal. On this Earth Day ask yourself what you are doing to preserve that fragile blue marble spinning through space for your children, for your grandchildren, and for the life that many believe God placed in our hands to nurture and protect.
Jean Ambrose
Last Updated: April 29, 2023 by main_y0ke11
Open letter to McKinley
Mar. 4, 2018 Letter-to-the-Editor by Ron Teska, Belleville
, WV
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
Mr. McKinley, I am writing to express my concern for our grandchildren’s and those yet to be born’s future.
With the Stream Protection Rule in effect Mountain Top Removal has already completely covered and destroyed over 1,200 miles of head water streams. And why would power companies and coal companies with million dollar salaried CEOs and billion dollar profits think it unreasonable to put a scrubber on these plants for their own grandchildren to breathe easier? To blame government and EPA is a slap in the face to all your constituents.
“… he is advocating for a national energy policy that invests in fossil energy research …” Are you suggesting that while we are still able to burn fossil fuels we need to do so cleanly in order to manufacture wind/solar/geothermal/ energy for a better world for your constituents? Or do you really believe coal should be mined and burned as long as there is coal? Why not a solar panel factory instead of a cracker plant? It’s construction, manufacturing, installation, maintenance, and other industry jobs, as long as the sun shines. And our grandchildren will be able to breathe easier, have safe water to drink, and not think of you as a criminal pap.
Why can you not face the many fossil fuel companies in this state and try to come up with a bill forcing them all to put a mere 5 or 10 percent of their profits into construction of, for instance, a solar panel factory in McDowell County to hire some of the 142,000 union coal miners that have lost their jobs due to coal company greed. Today there are give or take 9,000 coal miners in WV taking out as much coal as when there were 142,000 coal miners. The difference is, all the profits go straight to the top. Long wall mining and MTR have taken the jobs leaving this state with the military as one of the only alternative for our high school graduates.
And in terms of taking care of our veterans I see only that you are taking care of them after our children have been duped into believing their sacrifice is for our country and its “freedom” when, in reality, we have troops in over 130 countries mostly protecting nearly 800 corporations we have overseas. Go to an elementary school and ask the student’s opinion what they would like you to do. And present the facts, not capitalistic oriented goals.
Last Updated: April 29, 2023 by main_y0ke11
Oil and gas industry won’t police itself
Mar. 4 2018 Letter-to-the-Editor by Michael Ireland, Parkersburg WV
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
Some people think methamphetamine is harmful. But we don’t need a law or agency to control it. The concerned parties should just hold a meeting and draw up a voluntary document agreeing that they won’t abuse the stuff. Problem solved, right? Let the industry police itself.
Oops, I made a typo. But no matter. This letter is in response to the expert op-ed of March 17-18. If the reader will substitute the word “methane” for methamphetamine in my first paragraph you will have my summary of the piece. It should have been printed on April 1.
Last Updated: April 29, 2023 by main_y0ke11
Do not look to past
Mar. 4, 2018 Letter-to-the-Editor by Giulia Mannarino, Belleville
WV
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
Recently, this newspaper used the “Our Opinion” column of the editorial page to commend U.S. Rep. David McKinley for being involved in the inclusion of the “45Q tax credit aimed at developing and deploying carbon capture technology” in the 2-year Congressional budget. The following day, this column complained mightily about a report on the coal industry issued by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). Apparently, the editor’s opinion is that our region’s economy can be improved by looking to the past rather than to the future.
I have seen a coal company ad from 1920 that described “clean coal.” This referred to the washing of the coal to remove loose coal dust so that it would be cleaner to bring inside. Over the years, “clean coal” has morphed into the suggestion that something can be done to coal to make it emit less carbon. For over 100 years, coal companies have been on the quest for clean coal and have not been able to deliver this technology. Coal will remain the most polluting of the fossil fuels. Representative McKinley is wasting tax dollars by pursuing this dead end.
According to what was noted in the column about the ARC’s report, it seems to be a factual review of the “changing coal economy” and mentions the needs of displaced workers. The columnist is critically irate; however, because the information in this report is not news to Appalachians who have lived through coal’s decline. It is also implied by the editor that the “environmental concerns” and “limits needed to curb climate change” are unnecessary and unfortunate (although curbing climate change is essential to the future of our planet). The ARC is also criticized because their report neglected to “start looking for solutions.”
Wake up Appalachia! It is past time to face the reality that coal will never be a “vibrant industry” again. The solutions to an economic revitalization don’t involve the promise of the impossible or the revival of a dead as the dinosaurs industry. Instead they are right outside the door in the form of renewable resources such as solar power and wind energy. The entire world is involved in a renewable energy revolution. The USA will be playing catch up and WV will be left behind in the (coal) dust.
Giulia Mannarino
Belleville
Last Updated: April 29, 2023 by main_y0ke11
Mr. Pruitt, we do know our ideal temperature
Jim Probst: Mr. Pruitt, we do know our ideal temperature (Gazette)
OP-ED March 19, 2018
In a recent interview, Scott Pruitt, the head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, questioned if global warming is “necessarily a bad thing.” He went on to say that it is fairly arrogant of us to think that we know what the ideal surface temperature should be in 2100.
Well Mr. Pruitt, there are things that are known and commonly accepted when it comes to “ideal” surface temperature. As head of the EPA, it seems that you should be aware of these facts. Our earth is classified as a “Goldilocks Planet,” that is a planet that is not too hot or too cold to allow for liquid water. We fit that classification because of our distance from the sun and because we have an atmosphere whose composition helps to retain a portion of the energy we receive from our sun.
Human activity is changing the makeup of our atmosphere so that more of the sun’s energy is being retained and our planet is warming. It’s pretty basic stuff.
Responding to the question of an “ideal” temperature, climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe responded, “there is no one perfect temperature for the earth, but there is one for us humans, and that’s the temperature we’ve had over the past few thousand years when we built our civilization, agriculture, economy and infrastructure. Global average temperature over the past few millennia has fluctuated by a few tenths of a degree, today, it’s risen by nearly 1 degree centigrade, [1.8 degrees Fahrenheit] and counting.”
Mr. Pruitt also continues to advocate for what he calls a red team-blue team exercise that would somehow establish a consensus on the “key” issues surrounding climate change. The thing is that this work has already been done by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which was established in 1989, during the George H.W. Bush administration, to “assist the nation and the world to understand, assess, predict and respond to human-induced and natural processes of climate change.”
This group released its fourth report in 2017, and the following Trump administration departments participated: Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, State, Transportation, NASA, National Science Foundation, Smithsonian, U.S. Agency for International Development and, last but not least, the EPA.
It seems like you might have been provided a copy of the report, Mr. Pruitt. A short list of some of the conclusions reached in this report includes:
n The period from 1901-2016 is now the warmest in the history of modern civilization.
n Emissions of greenhouse gases are the dominant cause of the observed warming.
n Thousands of studies from around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric and oceanic temperatures — melting glaciers, diminishing snow cover, shrinking sea ice, rising sea levels, ocean acidification and increasing atmospheric water vapor.
n Heavy rainfall is increasing in intensity and frequency across the U.S. and globally and is expected to continue to increase.
n Heat waves are becoming more frequent and the incidence of forest fires has become more frequent since the 1980s.
n Without major reductions in our greenhouse gas emissions, we could be looking at as much as a 9 degree increase in global average temperature by the end of this century.
Already, we have seen more than 3,500 people die in a heat wave in India and Pakistan in 2015. Can you imagine what we will be witnessing with that level of increased temperature?
In 2014, the Department of Defense stated that climate change “will likely lead to food and water shortages, pandemic disease, disputes over refugees and resources, and destruction by natural disasters in regions across the globe.”
In closing, I would like to respond to one last statement from Mr. Pruitt. In the same interview, he is quoted as saying that, “this agency for the last several years has been more focused on what might be happening in 2100, as opposed to what is happening today.”
With all of the information we have available as to what kind of a world we are leaving for those that come behind us, I find that statement to be the very definition of short-sightedness.
Last Updated: April 29, 2023 by main_y0ke11
Solar Energy is possible
Solar energy is possible
Mar 11, 2018
In a recent study, scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science, University of California-Irvine, and CalTech found that wind and solar alone could provide 80 percent of U.S. electricity demand. A chart from Reuters news agency released week before last showed that in dollars per megawatt hour, solar and wind are the cheapest energy sources. In terms of alternate carbon-free power sources, hydropower already provides 6.5 percent of U.S. power while geothermal and biomass together add another 2 percent. All of those can be expanded, says Joe Romm, an American physicist and author.
To quote from the aforementioned study and Mr. Romm, “The key to achieving 80 percent penetration of just solar and wind power is a continental-scale transmission network or facilities that could store 12 hours’ worth of the nation’s electricity demand. Fortunately, costs for battery storage have plummeted in recent years so fast that in Colorado, building new renewable power plus battery storage is now cheaper than running old coal plants.”
Solar United Neighbors of West Virginia and Solar United Neighbors of Ohio recently partnered with groups like Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action (of which I am Chair), the League of Women Voters, WVU-P, Interfaith Power and Light, and Friends of the Lower Muskingum River to bring the Mid-Ohio Valley Solar Co-Op to our area. 14 homes in the MOV had solar arrays installed. Chip Pickering of Pickering Associates has overseen the installation of solar on PHS, PSHS, and Williamstown High School as well as the Parkersburg Recycling Center and Marietta City Building.
The future is here. The time is now. Clean energy is a reality, but we must devote the resources to it. We must not get so wrapped up in shale development and petrochemical expansion as to miss this important opportunity. Our grandchildren will either thank or despise us for choices we make today.
Eric Engle
Parkersburg
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