Former VLCIA board member Gary Minchew said he wanted to have a Take 2 on his goodbye speech. I have great admiration for what y’all are doing, sticking to your guns. I learned a lot. One thing I didn’t learn was to keep my mouth shut. I run into a guy the other day who […]
Chairman Jerry Jennett asked for Citizens Wishing to be Heard, and first up was Leigh Touchton, President of Valdosta-Lowndes NAACP, who presented them a letter from Dr. Robert D. Bullard, about his findings that 80% of the residents within one mile of the proposed Wiregrass Power Plant are black and 75% of biomass facilities in […]
The first thing I saw when I drove up to the Industrial Authority building: protesters outside. They don’t seem to like some biomass plant. Protesters, Wiregrass Activists for Clean Energy (WACE) at the regular monthly meeting, Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA) Norman Bennett, Roy Copeland, Tom Call, Mary Gooding, Jerry Jennett chairman, J. Stephen Gupton […]
Last Saturday I heard Hannah Solar had completed the Wiregrass Solar plant installation in Valdosta. Today Col. Ricketts confirmed that. Congratulations, Industrial Authority, Wiregrass Solar LLC, and Hannah Solar! The first slide shows the location of the solar plant, which is in the back of Valdosta’s Mud Creek Water Treatment Plant on Water Plant Road […]
Here is a letter that Leigh Touchton forwarded, noting, “Ms. Colleen Kiernan gave me her permission to share it publicly.” -jsq March 9, 2011 Brad Lofton Executive Director Valdosta Lowndes County Industrial Authority 2110 North Patterson Street Valdosta, GA 31602 RE: Sierra Club position on the Wiregrass Energy facility Dear Mr. Lofton: Congratulations on the […]
The Board of Directors of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA) meets tonight, 5:30 PM 15 March 2011 in the Industrial Authority Conference Room, 2110 N. Patterson Street, Valdosta, Georgia. I hear they’re having a personnel change. Maybe with new staff they can finally get agendas and minutes on their website, and maybe a picture […]
Deploying on a solar plant does require a bit of legal work, and the attorney’s report at the February VLCIA board meeting mostly consisted of talk about completion of lease and sublease agreements with Wiregrass Solar LLC. What’s that, you may wonder, if you’re used to hearing about Wiregrass Power LLC, the shell corporation VLCIA […]
At the February VLCIA board meeting, Col. Ricketts said groundbreaking for the solar plant is scheduled for February 21st with production less than two months after that. Here you can see his timeline slide. It’s a bit hard to read, but he mentioned at least these items: Site preparation starts 16 Feb 2011. Groundbreaking Monday […]
The Valdosta Lowndes County Industrial Authority board meets tonight: All Meetings will be held at 5:30pm in the Industrial Authority Conference Room, 2110 N. Patterson Street, unless otherwise notified. I would post a link to their agenda, if they had it online, but they don’t. Meanwhile, here they are. -jsq Tom Call Norman Bennett
Sure, everyone wants jobs for the people right now and jobs so the children don’t have to go somewhere else to find one. But what good is that if those jobs suck up all the water those children need to drink? This is the problem: “What I believe the three most important things are, not […]