Dr. Noll
talks about air pollution and children.
He asks if the council thinks numerous medical associations and doctors
are lying to us.
Mayor Fretti asks if that’s a rhetorical question.
Dr. Noll indicates Rev. Rose and others seem quite disappointed
in lack of response.
Mayor Fretti falls back on process.
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NAACP reiterates charges of environmental racism,
despite claims from Brad Lofton, Executive Director of the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority,
that
“all of a sudden we haven’t heard anymore about environmental racism.”
Leigh Touchton, president of the local NAACP chapter,
presents to the Valdosta City Council
research published by
Robert D. Bullard about environmental apartheid.
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Mayor Fretti
welcomes a VSU advanced journalism class,
as well as David Rodock of the VDT,
while Gretchen pans around the room.
Hm, advanced journalism: maybe they’d like to video events?
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George Rhynes
posted the appended on his blog
the same day he
spoke on the same subjects
at the Valdosta City Council, 10 February 2011.
Excerpts from his blog post: Continue reading
The
Longleaf Alliance
came up with some doozies of old fire-suppression propaganda
at the
Longleaf Workshops at Wiregrass Tech today.
Just in case you couldn’t visualize this enemy well enough, how about as a pale skeleton on a white horse with a B-movie torch?WOODS FIRES
EVERYMAN’S ENEMY
Ooh, those shadowy letters!DEATH RIDES
THE FOREST
If all else fails, go for fake religious injunctions, such as Continue reading
This sums it up:
“Taking fire out of the longleaf forest is like taking rain out of the rain forest.”But there’s a lot more to learn about the formerly largest-ranging forest in North America. The Longleaf Alliance is doing a series of Longleaf Workshops around Georgia, in conjunction with the Georgia Forestry Commission
I went to the one at
Wiregrass Technical College at Valdosta.
Here is EJ Williams giving an overview:
Good crowd: more than 50 people.
More later.
We’re on break now.
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