Tag Archives: Brad Lofton

What is your plan? –jsq to VLCIA board

I just sent this. -jsq



From: “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.

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VDT Civics Lesson on How to Stop a Biomass Plant



The VDT explains how to effect change, if anyone is listening.
Editorial, 13 Jan 2010,

Powerless to stop the power plant:

This week as the rhetoric around the proposed biomass facility has
continued heating up, leading up to

last night’s forum,
one of the main themes has been that “government should do something.”



While the Times does not condone or condemn

Chairman Paulk’s actions in the commission meeting Tuesday night,
understanding the situation may
help shed light on the issue. The county is powerless to do anything to
stop this power plant. The only governmental entity with any power over
the project is the city, and that’s only in the form of the services
being extended and the water being sold to the company, as well as the
sewage sludge that’s being burned. They too are powerless at this
point to stop it.



The editorial continues with the tired old excuse “they can be sued”.
Don’t they have insurance for that?
If the whole thing goes as bad as some opponents predict,
they could be sued for the kind of financial disaster

that faces Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

There is one governmental entity that does have the power.
Ah, here it is:

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Tiny LAKE is flattered by mighty VLCIA!

Posting a reply from LAKE to an inquiry from Brad Lofton. -jsq



To: Brad Lofton

From: John S. Quarterman

Cc: [see below]

Subject: Re: VDT Editorial

Howdy,

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:

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I will proudly share it with everyone. –Brad Lofton

VLCIA exec. dir. responds. -jsq

From: “blofton@industrialauthority.com” <blofton@industrialauthority.com>,

Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:35:23 -0500

Subject: RE: Videos from First Presbyterian Church, 6 Jan 2011

Thank 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,

BL

Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone

Lofton copied the same people I did:

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Re: Videos from First Presbyterian Church, 6 Jan 2011



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”

To: “John S. Quarterman”

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:28:59 +0000

Subject: RE: Videos from First Presbyterian Church, 6 Jan 2011

John – Thanks!

Mary B. Gooding

Director of Marketing and Community Relations

Valdosta State University

229-333-7444

FAX 229-245-3891

IT’S A GREAT DAY TO BE A BLAZER!

—–Original Message—–

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VDT publishes biomass email exchange from December

David Rodock writes in The Valdosta Daily Times today, in
“Debate over biomass heats up”, about the
exchange of email from December that you’ve seen in full on this blog. Rodock also got some new quotes from Dr. Noll and Brad Lofton, but no answers to any substantive questions from Lofton. Is a public employee funded by 1 mil of tax money supposed to refuse to address substantive questions from the public that pays that 1 mil?

-jsq

Brad Lofton wants you to see this (again and again)



You can

hear him say he hopes I record it.
This is what VLCIA considers “proof”: reciting a list of “authorities”

without addressing the specific criticisms or directly debating critics.
He still hasn’t produced

the citations to scientific literature
he’s been repeatedly asked for regarding health care,
nor has he produced the wood sourcing study.

You can hear Lofton recite much the same laundry list in

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Tom Call: New VLCIA Board Member

The Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA) has a new board member, Tom Call, local realtor and pesticider:


Roy Copeland

Roy Copeland
Tom Call

Tom Call
Mary B. Gooding

Mary Gooding
Norman Bennett

Norman Bennett
Jerry Jennett

Jerry Jennett,

Chairman

Since VLCIA’s website has no picture for Tom Call,
LAKE has used the one from his
Plaxo page.

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

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An Expensive Hobby: Gary Minchew’s VLCIA parting speech



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.

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In refusing debate, VLCIA staff are following orders from their board



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

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