Their main question was about the impending Sept. 21st execution of Troy Anthony Davis, about whom Amnesty International says there is too much doubt.
Student protesters greet Governor Nathan Deal at Valdosta State University, 16 Sep 2011.
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
The press had already noticed: Continue reading
| 7:30 | Breakfast at the Quitman-Brooks Co. Museum & Cultural Center (202 North Culpepper Street, Quitman) |
| 8:00 | Walk across the street to Brooks Co. Courthouse to have a skillet contest and media opportunity (Brooks Co. Skillet Festival is the next day – Saturday, September 17 <96> a kickoff for the festival) |
| 8:30 | Depart Brooks Co., travel to Wiregrass Georgia Technical College (4089 Val-Tech Road, Valdosta) |
| 9:00 | Arrive WGTC, tour for one hour |
| 10:00 | Depart WGTC, travel to South Georgia Medical Center (2501 North Patterson Street, Valdosta) |
| 10:15 | Arrive SGMC, tour for 45 minutes |
| 11:00 | Depart SGMC, travel to Valdosta State University Nursing Building (1500 North Patterson Street, Valdosta) |
| 11:15 | Tour VSU Nursing Building |
| 11:35 | Walk across street to VSU University Center for lunch/presentation |
| 11:45 — 1:15 | Luncheon, VSU University Center |
Continue readingIt is unbelievable that despite all the concerns in our community about biomass, the Industrial authority is still considering to sell the land to a company like Wiregrass Power LLC. This is the same company the Industrial Authority once stated
it had no faith in anymore. This is the same company that just missed another deadline as stipulated by their contract. And this is the same company that apparently does not have the best interest of our community in mind.
There are other things Valdosta could do, such as what the VSU
Faculty Senate did:
pass a resolution opposing biomass.
Remember,
the mayor of Gretna, Florida did that.
If little old Gretna can do it, TitleTown USA can do it!
The Valdosta City Council could also hold an ethics investigation of their own appointees to the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority, on the topic of why those appointees are in favor of a project with demonstrated health hazards to the community.
Short of that, Valdosta could demand transparency from VLCIA: Continue reading
Myrna Ballard (President, Chamber of Commerce),
Michael Jetter (Interim Executive Director for the Valdosta-Lowndes Conference Center and Tourism Authority),
Amanda Peacock (Valdosta Main Street Manager),
Allan Ricketts (Valdosta-Lowndes Industrial Authority Project Manager),
Jane Shelton (Valdosta-Lowndes Airport Authority Member)
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Community leaders in the Valdosta area came together at the 2011 Economic Summit to discuss the economic health of Valdosta-Lowndes County.WALB then quotes the Chamber’s press release.Economic Summit participants raised substantive questions for the panel and shared ideas for moving forward during the facilitated discussion portion of the Summit led by VSU Center for Business and Economic Research Director, Scott Manley.
Dr. Cynthia R. Tori presented the VSU Center for Business and Economic Research study, Lowndes County by the Numbers: How Do We Compare With Peer and Aspirant Communities?That study sounds very interesting. Can we see a copy? Continue reading
Why? Because leading medical associations have identified woody biomass incineration as increasing risks of “a variety of illnesses, some life-threatening”, because biomass incineration produces more CO2, NOX, and fine particulates than existing coal plants, and because it “may lead to unsustainable forestry practices and a net increase in global greenhouse gas emissions”.
Who proposed this? Continue reading
Please help us identify this speaker.
Here’s the video:
Think of our future @ VCC 7 April 2011
Regular monthly meeting of the Valdosta City Council (VCC),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 April 2011,
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
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Molly Duet
writes in the VSU newspaper today:
Protestors wearing respirator masks held signs reading “Biomass? No!” in front of the Valdosta City Hall building on Thursday. Members of the Wiregrass Activists for Clean Energy, the VSU student organization Students Against Violating the Environment, and other concerned Valdosta citizens showed up to protest the construction of the Wiregrass Power: Biomass Electric Generating Plant.The Spectator article quotes from two speakers for whom LAKE happens to have video, linked below. Continue reading“We already have solar power resources in place that we could be using and I feel like money should be directed towards that,” Ivey Roubique, vice-president of the Student Geological Society, said. “It wouldn’t be good for the community and even though I’m in college here it still matters.”
Continue readingSAVE says Biomass spells bad news for Valdosta and VSU
By: Erin Hurley
How many of y’all have heard of the Biomass Plant that has been proposed for Valdosta? Many of ya’ll probably don’t know what Biomass is; I know I didn’t until about two years ago when this project first started. The Biomass plant is an incinerator that will burn sewage, sludge and tree “debris” in order to create energy. What’s the big deal, right?
Some people compare LAKE to Wikileaks, so let’s go there.
Julian Assange, like
Wendell Berry,
links the civil rights movement and the environmental movement.
He
then says:
“For the Internet generation this is our challenge and this is our time. We support a cause that is no more radical a proposition than that the citizenry has a right to scrutinise the state. The state has asserted its authority by surveilling, monitoring and regimenting all of us, all the while hiding behind cloaks of security and opaqueness. Surely it was only a matter of time before citizens pushed back and we asserted our rights.”
LAKE’s motto is:
Citizen dialog for transparent processThat makes Assange’s proposition
“the citizenry has a right to scrutinise the state”sound very familiar to us.
Locally it’s more a matter of elected and appointed bodies ignoring their chartered responsibilities to the public good and the general welfare. Well, many people are also tired of the permit inspection brigade, but that’s another story.
Assange also adds: Continue reading