Receiving no response from Brad Lofton to
his previous message,
Dr. Noll summarizes.
Interestingly, attached to Dr. Noll’s message was
a copy of Dr. Teaf’s slides
which I didn’t notice until just now.
See also
Col. Ricketts’ re-presentation
of those slides to the VLCIA board on 21 Dec 2010.
Both are linked
here.
-jsq
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:19:00 +0000
Good morning everyone.
As a scientist and President of WACE it is my duty to point out that,
more than three weeks after their latest panel, Mr. Lofton and the
Industrial Authority have, yet again, not been able to share conclusive
evidence with the community that biomass is safe. At the same time,
WACE has time and again provided scientific studies and statements made
by medical organizations that prove that biomass incineration bears
significant health risks for our community.
Evidence provided by the pro-biomass panelists on December 6 (none of
whom were medical professionals or represented a medical organization)
was at best circumstantial, as can be expected from such a one-sided
panel. Moreover, neither Dr. Teaf nor any of the other panelists have
given us any evidence since then that biomass is safe, as their
presentations lacked any sources or links to check the validity of
their statements (see attached presentation from Dr. Teaf as an
example). In other words, their “assurances” too that biomass is
“safe”, like those repeatedly made by the Industrial Authority, remain
empty words. The time for playing semantics and simply “assuring” our
community that biomass is safe, without providing scientific studies to
back up such claims, is over.
(The same pattern of mis-information can be observed in regard to
claims that the biomass project is supported by groups like the Sierra
Club, that biomass incineration is carbon neutral, or that biomass is
economically speaking a safe investment. WACE will address these too on
January 13.)
With best regards and wishes for a Healthy New Year,
Michael G. Noll, President
Wiregrass Activists for Clean Energy
I was recently reading “Masterpieces of Eloquence,” which includes a speech delivered by the fourth Earl of Chesterfield to the House of Lords in Feb., 1743. “The bill now under our consideration appears to me to deserve a much closer regard than seems to have been paid to it in the other House, through which it was hurried with the utmost precipitation, and where it passed almost without the formality of a debate. Nor can I think that earnestness with which some lords seem inclined to press it forward here consistent with the importance of the consequences which may with great reason be expected from it.” He goes on to say, “surely it never before was conceived, by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.”
