A sample of comments made this week on The Meridian Star’s Facebook page:

• On the Mississippi Public Service’s Commission’s telling Mississippi Power to give up on goal at the Kemper Power Plant and operate a natural gas facility instead:

Deree Sims Rogers: I don’t know anything about all this stuff, but I have common sense enough to know that whoever approved of this “coal plant” to begin with, didn’t have the people’s (or land’s) best interest at heart.

Steve Corey: Green Energy is one thing, but this proves that green energy cost A LOT of GREEN!! Unproven technology costs. Yes we have to seek out alternatives but we have to cut our losses also. Wonder how long it will take Mississippi Power to ask for a bail out for their losses. Wish it had worked, now let’s drill for oil here in the good ole USA and quit buying it from terrorist countries!!!

Carol Dezort: We should have invested in solar and wind. Coal anything is out.

 

Doug Las: It should have never been allowed to go this far! It was untested/unproven technology with a price tag of $2.4 BILLION when it was proposed. Now the cost has MORE THAN TRIPLED, it’s 3 years past their own completion timeline and they can’t make it work. They keep “re-engineering” this or that trying. But, they simply can’t make it work because it was never proven to work before they started construction. Hey, why would they care? It wasn’t on their dime. It was on MINE and YOURS.

Russel Mowery: I think for another 3-4 billion we can get this thing up and going!

• On the decision by the family of Stonewall’s Katherine Sinclair to donate her organs following her death:

Barbara Williams: I watched someone come within 24 hrs of dying waiting on an organ transplant it came just in time and he is alive and well today thanks to someone’s life-saving donation… I went the next day and signed up to be an organ donor! Everyone should do that!

Kristal David Schrimpshire: I have decided to be an organ donor because of her.

• On the retirement of Meridian Ward 3 City Councilwoman Barbara Henson:

Leanne Bonner Sande: Such a classy woman wherever she is and whatever she is representing that day. Mrs. Barbara, you have fought a good fight for the city of Meridian. Thank you for that. May you be blessed in all you do. I’m sure you are only retiring from the council seat but will continue to do all you can for those who call on you.

Armond Si Simmons: Beautiful as ever! Being from Complete, MS (a famous suburb of Meridian), I remember Barbara as a Swim Instructor at the Highland Park Swimming Pool when I was a Lifeguard and remember she and her husband, Ralph’s interest and participation in various activities involving our youngsters over the years. She was a leader from early on! Luv her!

Debbie Black-Sharp: She’s not just the mother of the council, Mrs. Henson has touched most of the children in Lauderdale County. What an incredible woman!

• On the Fifth Circut Court of Appeals decision reversing a lower court’s decision to strike down Mississippi House Bill 1523, allowing the “religious freedom” law to take effect:

• Joe Pike: As an atheist and a mechanic, does that allow me to refuse to fix someone’s car if they’re Christian? Refuse to work on a 15 passenger bus owned by a church?