Did the VLCIA board just back off from its staff’s very close association with Wiregrass Power LLC’s biomass plant?

After pointing out that LAKE posted videos of the entire previous VLCIA board meeting as a proof of concept that if it could be done by a tiny volunteer activist group it could be done by a tax-funded professional staff, and complimenting VLCIA on finally posting videos of their 6 Dec 2010 event a month after LAKE posted videos of the Q&A and the rest of that meeting, I asked the VLCIA board who is going to buy the electricity from the biomass plant. Chairman Jerry Jennett answered:

“That’s not our problem.” [waves hands] “You see, industry comes and it’s his job to sell whatever his output is… the manufacturing plant… the output is electricity…”

So I asked how does that match with Col. Ricketts in the previous board meeting referring to a public/private partnership between VLCIA and Wiregrass Power LLC and frequently saying “we”.

Col. Ricketts responded that he was only referring to the solar plant and the GEFA grant. Well, yes he said that then, but he also said…

In introducing Dr. Teaf as an expert on biomass, Col. Ricketts said to the VLCIA board in their public meeting of 21 Dec 2010:

“…we reached out with the company, Sterling Energy Assets and Wiregrass Power, and working together … we decided that we would approach Dr. Teaf to do this analysis for us….”

I hear “we … we … we” all the way home.

So was the VLCIA board not paying attention to Col. Ricketts last time, or did Chairman Jennett just back off from VLCIA staff’s very close association with Wiregrass Power LLC and Sterling Energy’s biomass plant?

More on last night’s meeting in later posts.

-jsq

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