{"id":2068,"date":"2011-05-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/because-it-would-be-monitored-robert-yost-via-karen-noll.html"},"modified":"2011-05-06T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T12:00:00","slug":"because-it-would-be-monitored-robert-yost-via-karen-noll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/because-it-would-be-monitored-robert-yost-via-karen-noll.html","title":{"rendered":"“Because it would be monitored” —Robert Yost via Karen Noll"},"content":{"rendered":"This comment from Karen Noll came in last night on\n\n“Well Councilman Yost certainly believes Councilmen should give their opinion”<\/a>. -jsq\n
\n\n<\/a>\nOn Friday, April 29, 2011 I met with Mr. Yost to discuss the biomass\nissue in person. Mr. Yost stated that he is FOR the biomass project and\nFOR selling (grey) water to the plant.\n

\nWhen asked for his reasons, he said it “would be good for the citizens\nof the county”. When pressed to clarify, he said that the jobs and\nthe energy would be good for the citizens. He had no clear rationale\nfor how these 25 jobs would positively effect his constituents, nor how\ndiversifying GA Powers energy sources would help his constituents.\n

\nThe other reason given for supporting the biomass project\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

\nwas that he felt\nthat the plant is safe as deemed by the permitting authorities. With a\ndaughter with asthma and as an advocate for recreational activities,\nhe was unconcerned by the evidence concerning the health risks presented\nto him. Mr. Yost went on to say that the plant would be safe because\nit had [emission] limits that it could not surpass and because it would\nbe monitored. He was unaware that the permitting process did not take\ninto account safety of the surrounding community or that ambient air\nquality was not monitored in our county.\n

\nYost felt that the Industrial authority worked within its parameters\nand spoke highly of Brad Lofton. I did not bother to tell him that Brad\nLofton was fired from his previous job and simply built his resume here\n(stating that the biomass plant was a done deal to his future employers\nwhen hired). I also left out the detail that our X-IA director tried\nto attract local businesses to Myrtle Beach before he left.\n

\n-Karen Noll\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This comment from Karen Noll came in last night on “Well Councilman Yost certainly believes Councilmen should give their opinion”. -jsq On Friday, April 29, 2011 I met with Mr. Yost to discuss the biomass issue in person. Mr. Yost stated that he is FOR the biomass project and FOR selling (grey) water to the […]","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":[97,120,40,14,16,2,41,3,54],"tags":[8738,1747,8701,876,7,290,8700,6],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-community","category-economy","category-environment","category-government","category-health-care","category-transparency","category-valdosta-city-council","tag-biomass","tag-brad-lofton","tag-georgia","tag-health","tag-lowndes-county","tag-robert-yost","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-xm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","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=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}