I am so glad to hear this!
I am not making light of the oil spill in any way, or blinding myself to the horrors of this disaster, but for my own personal sanity, I have to put some focus on the potential positive outcomes. Otherwise I spend far too much time wallowing in fear and anxiety and anger, and that just makes me useless.
My hope has been, and continues to be, that Walton County and the entire gulf coast region becomes a hotbed of alternative energy research and production. We desperately need new industry here to give balance to our lopsided tourist-driven economy, we desperately need jobs of all kinds for our un and under-employed workforce, and the whole world desperately needs clean energy. We've got land and resources and a community of sympathetic and enterprising people. The way I see it, the potential is huge - we just need the investors and risk-takers to get behind it.
(I've also said that the only way BP will ever be able to redeem itself as a corporation would be if they put all of their economic weight behind research and development of clean energy technologies. Yes I know how far-fetched an idea it is, but it's the option I'd rather focus on and draw energy to. It just would take one leader in that company with some spark of vision, and it would be the comeback story of the century. But I digress...)
Bravo Shelton & James, this is really good news!
