Gulf recovery must include clean energy plan

by: Jeremy Burton

Wed Oct 27, 2010 at 11:44:30 AM EDT

Smart piece over at Bridge the Gulf by Chasidy Fisher Hobbs of Emerald Coastkeeper this week arguing that "a full recovery of the gulf coast must include an investment in a clean, renewable energy future" an analysis we agree with.  She writes, in regard to the BP spill:

If anything good did come from this disaster, it is the increased awareness of just how much our economic health is dependent on our environmental health. Merely the perception of oil blanketed beaches was enough to cause economic destruction statewide, even though we were much luckier than our neighboring Gulf states.
 
Some folks have been preaching this very idea for years. Regrettably, the sermon typically fell on deaf ears, and we were considered "job hating environmental wackos" by those who have perpetuated a long, drawn out war of economic development versus environmental health.

Read the full piece here.