Politics
Georgia turtles trump the sun?
By Dan Chapman
Sept 21, 2015Everybody wants clean air. Everybody wants to turn the sun into a cheap and renewable energy source. Everybody, that is, except the turtles of South Georgia.
Solar panels mushrooming across the state's mid-section increasingly cover territory where gopher tortoises, a potentially endangered species, forage for food and make their homes.
Georgia's push into renewable energy — solar, wind, biomass and natural gas — brings unseen costs and consequences.
It ain’t easy being green.
