VLCIA says
it paid for hotel rooms in December for
Bob McCann and Gil Waldman of Sterling Energy. Why?
How much more has VLCIA spent on travel for Sterling?
And how can this public-private keep Sterling documents related
to the biomass plant confidential?
According to the VDT, “Biomass plant said good for Valdosta and Georgia,” by Johnna Pinholster, 4 Nov 2010, “Gilbert Waldman is vice president and general manager of Sterling Energy Assets” and “Sterling Energy brought in Robert McCann, Jr. from Golder Associates Inc.” It’s curious that VLCIA paid for a room for the general manager of Sterling Energy, which I thought VLCIA said was the principle investor in the project. Seems like more we, we, we to me. This is yet more evidence that VLCIA and Sterling Energy do indeed have a public-private partnership. In which case, why can Sterling and VLCIA claim Sterling’s wood fuel sourcing study is proprietary?
The VDT also said:
On Tuesday, Waldman, an environmental consultant, members of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority board, and Brad Lofton, executive director of the authority, sat down to discuss the plant, how it works and how clean it will be.Did VLCIA also pay for rooms for Waldman and McCann for that Tuesday 2 Nov 2010 meeting? How much money has VLCIA spent bringing them down here?
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Excuse me? Why are our taxes paying for a private corporation to come here in order to build this plant? I’ll tell you why: it’s a boondoggle. Whether it’s former Governor Sonny Perdue giving $6.3 million to a failed cellulosic alcohol biomass plant, which also got huge local taxpayer support in Soperton, GA, or the Valdosta-Lowndes Industrial Authority paying $17,500 for business executives to come here to shill their polluting industry…it’s all the same pattern of huge government subsidies for biomass. And many of these plants, like Soperton and elsewhere, end up shutting down. But the taxpayers’ money has all been spent.
This is a boondoggle.