George Bennett<\/a>, is a big man about the biomass situation!\nCongratulations, Crawford Powell!\n\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to David Rodock in the VDT today about last night’s County Commission regular session: Only one citizen, Dr. Michael Noll, came forward to speak with commissioners. Noll asked commissioners to speak with Industrial Authority board members about the 22.2 acre tract of land that is being considered for purchase by Wiregrass Power LLC. Noll […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,120,70,2,1347,88,3],"tags":[679,8738,623,8728,4121,8701,4120,7,8734,8700],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-ethics","category-government","category-lcc-12-july-2011","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-transparency","tag-ashley-paulk","tag-biomass","tag-crawford-powell","tag-ethics","tag-george-bennett","tag-georgia","tag-laura-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-transparency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-sr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>\nDistrict 3 commissioner Crawford Powell offered his insight on the issue,\n\u201cThe issue the Industrial Authority has is they had a contractual\nagreement on the sale of the property and so they’re trying to work\nthrough that but I don’t think there\u2019s any particular excitement on\ntheir behalf to continue down that road.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\nAccording to usually reliable sources, it was Crawford Powell\nwho\n\n\npushed for the Commissioners\n\nto come out against biomass as soon as he was elected.<\/a>\nBack in April, \nAshley Paulk publicly did an about-face<\/a>\nand asked if any commissioners still thought the biomass plant should proceed.\nAll three voting commissioners sat mute at that time.\n