{"id":2099,"date":"2011-05-02T09:44:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/what-are-they-thinking-dr-noll.html"},"modified":"2011-05-02T09:44:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:44:41","slug":"what-are-they-thinking-dr-noll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/what-are-they-thinking-dr-noll.html","title":{"rendered":"What are they thinking? —Dr. Noll"},"content":{"rendered":"Dr. Noll has a few questions. This came in as a comment Saturday.\nI’ll be happy to ask VLCIA Chairman Jerry Jennett these and other\nquestions when he calls me back. -jsq\n
\nLet me see if I got this right:\n
    \n
  1. \nThe week before the last meeting of the Industrial Authority (IA)\nWiregrass Biomass LLC sent a letter to the IA asking for an extension\nof the agreement to build the biomass incinerator. (June 1, 2011, is\nthe current deadline.)\n
  2. \nBased on comments made by Chairman Paulk and others, all indications\nwere that the IA may have been ready to vote down such an application\nfor an extension of the agreement.\n
  3. \nHowever, the vote on biomass never came up at the IA meeting, and\nas a matter of fact, biomass wasn’t even discussed, as it was not even\non the agenda. Apparently a few hours before the IA meeting, “biomass”\n(or a vote on the extension of the agreement with Wiregrass Biomass LLC)\nwas removed from the agenda.\n
  4. \nThis change of events (i.e. the removal of a vote on biomass)\nwas based on an initiative by Mr. Jennett (Chair of the IA board),\nMr. Ricketts (Project Manager of the IA) and Mr. Gupton (the IA lawyer)\nwho went to Atlanta to have a little chat with Wiregrass Biomass LLC\n(or Sterling Planet).\n
  5. \nAs a result of that talk, Wiregrass Biomass LLC withdrew their\napplication for an extension of the agreement. Thus, there was no contract\n(or an extension of a contract) to vote on at the last IA meeting.\n<\/ol>\nWhat sense would it make\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n
    \nfor Wiregrass Biomass LLC to send “a new letter\nwith different deadlines” according to Mr. Call? How is that different\nfrom the original letter that apparently asked for an extension of the\ncurrent agreement with the IA, which for all practical purposes must\nhave had a “date” in it (e.g. December 31, 2011)?\n

    \nAfter all these months of protests and at a time when it is clear that\nthe community (including members of the LCC and CC) do not want and\/or\nsupport this project anymore, we are still playing games? What on earth\nare people like Mr. Jennett and Mr. Ricketts thinking, and how on earth\nis it possible that members of the IA board (e.g. Mr. Bennett) haven’t\neven seen the original letter?\n

    \n-Michael Noll\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Noll has a few questions. This came in as a comment Saturday. I’ll be happy to ask VLCIA Chairman Jerry Jennett these and other questions when he calls me back. -jsq Let me see if I got this right: The week before the last meeting of the Industrial Authority (IA) Wiregrass Biomass LLC sent […]","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":[97,120,40,2,1794,3,178,700],"tags":[193,8738,186,703,8840,182,8700,180,8749,4123],"class_list":["post-2099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-community","category-government","category-sterling-planet","category-transparency","category-vlcia","category-wace","tag-allan-ricketts","tag-biomass","tag-jerry-jennett","tag-michael-noll","tag-sterling-planet","tag-tom-call","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia","tag-wiregrass-power-llc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-xR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099","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=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}