A Mighty Wind

Have you ever heard the term "Awareness is the first step to recovery?" Perhaps the second step is the development of a new philosophy. We don't get the feeling a new philosophy is emerging at Progess Arkansas. Yesterday, this group pointed both barrels at the Joint Congressional Committee on Energy with tons of distressing figures on energy demands for the future.

The Progress Arkansas group mentions "environment" in their mantra but the word was barely a sidebar in yesterday's discussions. The leaders of this group seem to think they will be in the fossil fuel burning game for an eternity- and they might be with legislative support. However, an eternity won't be very long if we keep building the pollution machines that these dinosaurs set forth.

Legislators should not consider any energy plan that does not admit, and then set forth a long-term plan that includes eventual cessation of burning fossil fuels.

Call it the sunlight at the end of the tunnel.

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[Jcentennial]

Here are the founding members:

The Arkansas Economic Developers, the Arkansas Electric
Cooperatives Corp., the Arkansas Environmental Federation, the Arkansas Municipal
Powers Association, the Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Corporation, the Arkansas State
Chamber of Commerce and Associated Industries of Arkansas, Inc., the Arkansas State
University Delta Center for Economic Development, Arkansas Western Gas – A
SourceGas Company, CenterPoint Energy, Delta Plastics, the Empire District Electric
Company, Entergy Arkansas, Inc., the Great River Economic Development Foundation,
Inc., the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, Metro Little Rock Alliance,
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company, Southwestern Electric Power Company, and the
Wind Coalition.