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Pastor Angela Manning: “totally against the building of the bio mass plant”

Pastor Angela Manning sent this message to Brad Lofton Monday 4 October
and asked that it be posted here.

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Mr. Lofton,

I just want you and every one at the Industrial Authority to know that my
congregation and I are totally against the building of the bio mass plant.
There are people in my church who suffer from asthma and COPD. This plant
would only make those who already have existing breathing problems worse. We
have a number of children and babies too. According to the American Lung
Association this plant would be harmful to the health of healty human beings
let alone those who have problems. I stand with the NAACP, the SCLC, the
American Lung Association, and any other group fighting against the bio mass
plant.

Taking a Stand in the Community,

Dr. Angela Manning

Biomass Town Hall, 8 July 2010

On July 8th there was a
town Hall meeting about the biomass plant proposed for Valdosta.

Pastor Angela Manning of New Life Ministries sums up why she called this Town Hall meeting:

Speakers included:

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Town Hall Meeting about Biomass Plant

Some concerned citizens

met with the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority on JulyJune 10, 2010
about the proposed biomass plant on Inner Perimeter Road.
Not everyone was convinced that it was a good idea.

Pastor Angela Manning of New Life Ministries has organized a
Town Hall meeting for tomorrow, Thursday 8 July 2010 at 7PM:

Date:	Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Time:	7 p.m.
Venue:	New Life Ministries
Address:	5651 Inner Perimeter Rd., Valdosta, GA 31606

Here is a

PDF of the flyer and related links.
The flyer was prepared by Natasha Fast of SAVE.

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Biomass and Carbon Dioxide

Natasha Fast, Angela Manning, Allan Ricketts (Project Manager), Geraldine Fairell, Ken Klanicki, Brad Lofton (Executive Director)

Natasha Fast (SAVE), Pastor Angela Manning (New Life Ministries), Allan Ricketts (Project Manager), Geraldine Fairell, Ken Klanicki, Brad Lofton (Executive Director), picture by John S. Quarterman (LAKE)

Pictured is a group of concerned citizens meeting about the
proposed biomass plant with Valdosta-Lowndes County
Industrial Authority (VLCIA)
Project Manager Allan Ricketts
and Executive Director Brad Lofton.
Ricketts and Lofton gave a two-hour presentation,
took some action items, and have provided a schedule
on which they will fulfill them.
I thank them for that and look forward to the further materials.

Lying in the center of the table in the picture is this document:

Biomass carbon neutrality in the context of forest-based fuels and products

by Reid Miner, NCASI, Al Lucier, NCASI

The copy on the table is dated April 7, 2010; the online version
is dated May 2010.
It’s a powerpoint presentation that makes many good points,
among them that coal doesn’t grow back, while trees do.
So in theory it would be possible, by organizing harvesting of biomass
over a region to make burning biomass for electricity carbon neutral.

The document comes right out and says:

At point of combustion, CO₂ emissions per unit of energy produced
are generally higher for biomass fuels than for fossil fuels.