\nJohn Downey concludes\n\nhis article in the Charlotte Business Journal of 16 March 2011:<\/a>\n \n\n \n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Look through the shell companies like Adage to the real backers. Why is the source of the recent news about Adage biomass plants being cancelled the Charlotte Business Journal? Adage is “An Areva\/Duke Energy advanced biopower company.” And Charlotte is where Duke Energy is based. John Downey concludes his article in the Charlotte Business Journal […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[97,596,120,203,24,1794,178,1521],"tags":[8788,193,4915,4917,143,8751,3716,4419,368,4916,7,4580,8840,6,180,8749,4123,4638],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-adage","category-biomass","category-florida","category-solar","category-sterling-planet","category-vlcia","category-wiregrass-solar","tag-adage","tag-allan-ricketts","tag-charlotte-business-journal","tag-deponty","tag-duke-energy","tag-florida","tag-gadsden-county","tag-gretna","tag-hamilton-county","tag-john-downey","tag-lowndes-county","tag-sonny-murphy","tag-sterling-planet","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia","tag-wiregrass-power-llc","tag-wiregrass-solar-llc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-B9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","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=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nThe joint venture has yet to build a biomass plant anywhere. DePonty\nsays it is clear that Adage will not achieve the goal announced when\nDuke and Areva formed it to build 10 to 12 biomass plants around the\ncountry by 2013.\n<\/blockquote>\nSeems like the biomass gold rush is fizzling.\n
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<\/a>\nMeanwhile, back in Valdosta, Wiregrass Power LLC,\nthe shell company for the biomass plant, is owned by\nSterling Planet, whose founder and chairman\n\nSonny Murphy<\/a>\nspoke at the groundbreaking for\n\nthe Wiregrass Solar LLC plant, another Sterling Planet subsidiary.<\/a>\nI’m sure Chairman Murphy is aware that\n\nhis solar plant is already completed<\/a>\nwhile his biomass plant\n\nstill has no suppliers of raw materials, goods, or services nor buyers for its electricity.<\/a>\nAlso, the biomass plant site preparation start date is now 1 June 2011,\nwhen, if I’m not mistaken, it used to be January 2011.\nAnd at the most recent VLCIA board meeting, the only mention I heard\nof biomass was by a citizen\nwho spoke against it<\/a>\nwhile the VLCIA’s project manager \nspoke at some length about the completion of the solar plant.<\/a>\nSeems to me building out the solar plant in two directions,\nlike VLCIA discussed at a previous board meeting, would make the\nmost sense at this point.\nI guess we’ll see what Chairman Murphy does.\n