2110 North Patterson Street
Valdosta, GA 31602-2580
(229) 259-9972
Here is your VLCIA Board:
Roy Copeland |
Tom Call |
Mary Gooding |
Norman Bennett |
Jerry Jennett, Chairman |
I expect to be there. Will you?
-jsq
PS: Maybe I’ll get an answer to my question.
Continue readingFrom: “John S. Quarterman”
To: Brad Lofton
Cc: [see below]Since I know of no public email address for the VLCIA board, I’m asking Brad Lofton to distribute this to the board before their meeting tomorrow.
Dear Board,
This is an update to my previous question to you, which was published in the Valdosta Daily Times, 20 Dec 2010, available online here:
http://lake.typepad.com/on-the-lake-front/2010/12/whats-the-industrial-authoritys-plan.html
I’m sending this letter directly to you, and also publishing it online,
http://lake.typepad.com/on-the-lake-front/2010/12/what-is-your-plan.html
What is the Industrial Authority’s plan to bring in real clean jobs?
Your staff have claimed that Wiregrass Power LLC’s tiny solar plant plus their biomass plant will make us a “center of innovation excellence for renewable and sustainable energy in Georgia.” Is that all?
If so, let me make a few suggestions.
Continue readingTo: Brad Lofton
From: John S. Quarterman
Cc: [see below]
Subject: Re: VDT EditorialHowdy,
Tiny LAKE is flattered to be asked to repost VDT materials for mighty VLCIA! But to answer your question, this is a blog, not a newspaper, nor a wire service for a newspaper. LAKE also hasn’t posted all of the letters to the editor of the VDT pro and con on this subject or others of interest to us.
More basically, you seem to continue to confuse “VLCIA answered” with “the answers satisfied the questioners” or “the answers actually addressed the content of the questions” or “nobody is questioning anymore”.
Questions continued to be asked at the VLCIA “Forum” of 6 Dec 2010. I ask again:
From: “blofton@industrialauthority.com” <blofton@industrialauthority.com>,Lofton copied the same people I did: Continue reading
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:35:23 -0500
Subject: RE: Videos from First Presbyterian Church, 6 Jan 2011Thank you for providing the video from Thursday. I will proudly share it with everyone. It was a great night, and I was pleased with the very large amount of support in the room. You may also want to consult with the local Mortgage Broker’s Assocation. I spoke for them last week as well, and they are enthusiastic supporters.
Have a nice weekend,
BLSent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
Mary Gooding, VLCIA board member, acknowledges receipt of my
heads-up (included below) to VLCIA about
the recent videos of Brad Lofton.
(More of those to come, by the way.)
-jsq
From: “Mary B. Gooding”Continue reading
To: “John S. Quarterman”
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:28:59 +0000
Subject: RE: Videos from First Presbyterian Church, 6 Jan 2011John – Thanks!
Mary B. Gooding
Director of Marketing and Community Relations
Valdosta State University
229-333-7444
FAX 229-245-3891IT’S A GREAT DAY TO BE A BLAZER!
—–Original Message—–
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Roy Copeland |
Tom Call |
Mary Gooding |
Norman Bennett |
Jerry Jennett, Chairman |
He’s on the board of Homeland Defense Corp., which does “Custom Automated Mosquito and Insect Misting Systems” and says this:
Thomas B. Call graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. After a career in the agricultural chemicals industry, Tom branched out into real estate. Today, he is the owner of Coldwell Banker Premier Real Estate, and owns a number of successful businesses specializing in residential and commercial real estate development. www.Valdostarealtors.com(Also on that board are Continue reading
What
Gary Minchew said at the end of his last Valdosta-Lowndes County
Industrial Authority (VLCIA) meeting as a board member:
He said he’s brought over 200 jobs a year to the area. He also said he organized getting the 1 mil of dedicated tax money for VLCIA. Continue reading
We’ve seen Brad Lofton write
I will not debate you over e-mail
and
We will not, however, debate you over e-mail
meanwhile refusing to put tax-funded presentations and videos
up for public view through the VLCIA website,
and offering personal meetings instead.
Having experienced one of those personal meetings down at VLCIA HQ,
and
having heard from others who have attended them,
I know of no substantive debate that happened at those indoctrination sessions, either.
Any attempt at debate or even to get Lofton to produce the
scientific evidence he claims he has ends with a proclamation like
this one from September:
We’re moving forward with permits in hand.or this one from December:
We’re moving forward now, and we are looking forward to the ground breaking which will be Spring of 2011.
But let’s not be too hard on VLCIA staff. At the 21 Dec 2010 board meeting, it became clear Continue reading
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:10:58 +0000Continue readingGood evening everyone.
It is obvious by now that Mr. Lofton has no proof whatsoever that biomass is “safe”. He does not have one statement by a medical organization, not one scholarly publication he can share with us that backs up his claim. (Coincidentally, the same is true for other claims, as the event on January 13 will show.)
Members of WACE (and others in the community) have tried to receive proof
On 28 Dec 2010
Brad Lofton wrote:
No one but WACE has made any claims about our efforts to substantiate this project.Who are all these people, then, asking questions at the VLCIA’s 6 Dec 2010 event?
For example, this one, following up about the Environmental Impact Study he requested back at the EPD air quality hearing (see video of that event). He didn’t get an answer then, and at VLCIA’s 6 Dec event he still only got allusions to studies and standards that were not produced.
You can see Brad Lofton in that video, listening. Did he forget so quickly?
What about SAVE’s event at VSU at which Dr. Sammons spoke? What about the well-attended Biomass Town Hall that Pastor Angela Manning organized? And other events.
What about my question at the 6 Dec 2010 VLCIA board meeting? Continue reading