Brad Lofton answers my response of 23 Dec 2010 Col. Ricketts. Mr. Lofton appears not to have noticed that the press releases are in the same post as Col. Ricketts’ message. I’m still waiting for the videos the Valdosta videographer took to appear on the VLCIA website. Meanwhile, LAKE’s videos of the 6 Dec 2010 Q&A session have been on the web since 19 Dec. -jsq

To: John S. Quarterman, Allan Ricketts <aricketts@industrialauthority.com>,
From: Brad Lofton <blofton@industrialauthority.com>
Cc: John S. Quarterman, Michael Noll, Susan Wehling, Mary B. Gooding, Roy Copeland, Kay Harris
Subject: Re: Wiregrass Power, LLC
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:49:56 -0500

John-

We enjoyed having you Tuesday night, and we were especially glad to have you attend on the night we planned to review the expert panel’s testimony regarding the positive environmental, health and economic impacts of our project. We appreciate you agreeing today to provide all of that data (or at least links) on your blog plus the recent flurry of pro-biomass press releases. As you know, December has been very active with EPA and USDA releases promoting biomass plus GA Tech and Duke researchers announcing that renewable energy (including biomass) will save Southeastern U.S. ratepayers $23 billion a year by 2030. That’s great news for residential and industrial consumers alike. The unanimous permission granted for the Gainesville, FL biomass facility was good news, and we were amazed at the large amount of support they received-from the FL State Department of Health, to the guardians of the Suwannee River basin, the U.S. Corps of Engineers, and numerous government and environmental groups in between.

Regarding access to our panel info, we have already e-mailed our panelists’ presentations to members of the public, and we would be more than happy to continue doing that. Please have anyone interested e-mail us directly.

The video will be put on our site just as soon as its available. Dr. Teaf has led the toxicology group at FSU for decades, and he is a preeminent expert on the health issues related to our project. When he provides us additional info and publications, we will share those with you as well.

Regarding the 2011 meeting calendar, we will provide the schedule for next year on our site as soon as we get into 2011. In the interim, however, please mark your calendar for the third Tuesday of every month, 5:30 pm.

We have currently provided our board member’s work phone, fax, and address on the site. We do not intend to provide their e-mail addresses online at this time.

Thanks for your offer to find a web developer for us, but I am content with the job our staff and current provider are doing at this time.

Merry Christmas to you and your family,

BL
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