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<\/a>\nVLCIA says\n<\/a>\nVLCIA says\n\nit paid for hotel rooms in December<\/a> for\nBob McCann and Gil Waldman of Sterling Energy. Why?\nHow much more has VLCIA spent on travel for Sterling?\nAnd how can this public-private keep Sterling documents related\nto the biomass plant confidential?\n\nAccording to the VDT,\n\n“Biomass plant said good for Valdosta and Georgia,”<\/a>\nby Johnna Pinholster, 4 Nov 2010,\n“Gilbert Waldman is vice president and general manager of Sterling Energy Assets”\nand\n“Sterling Energy brought in Robert McCann, Jr. from Golder Associates Inc.”\nIt’s curious that VLCIA paid for a room for the general manager of Sterling\nEnergy, which I thought VLCIA said was the principle investor in the project.\nSeems like more\n\nwe, we, we<\/a> to me.\nThis is yet more evidence that VLCIA and Sterling Energy do indeed\nhave a public-private partnership.\nIn which case, why can Sterling and VLCIA\n\nclaim Sterling’s wood fuel\nsourcing study is proprietary?<\/a>\n \nThe VDT also said:\n \n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VLCIA says it paid for hotel rooms in December for Bob McCann and Gil Waldman of Sterling Energy. Why? How much more has VLCIA spent on travel for Sterling? And how can this public-private keep Sterling documents related to the biomass plant confidential? According to the VDT, “Biomass plant said good for Valdosta and Georgia,” […]","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":[97,120,14,2,178],"tags":[193,1747,300,969,8701,5009,5008,793,189,186,847,548,3653,8702,12,7,1169,185,181,5007,183,5010,182,6,180,8749],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-economy","category-government","category-vlcia","tag-allan-ricketts","tag-brad-lofton","tag-development","tag-economics","tag-georgia","tag-gilbert-waldman","tag-golder-associates-inc","tag-industry","tag-j-stephen-gupton","tag-jerry-jennett","tag-jobs","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-jr","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-marketing","tag-mary-gooding","tag-norman-bennett","tag-robert-mccann","tag-roy-copeland","tag-sterling-energy-assets","tag-tom-call","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-Cr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","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=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nOn Tuesday, Waldman, an environmental consultant, members of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority board, and Brad Lofton, executive director of the authority, sat down to discuss the plant, how it works and how clean it will be.\n<\/blockquote>\nDid VLCIA also pay for rooms for Waldman and McCann for that\nTuesday 2 Nov 2010 meeting?\nHow much money has VLCIA spent bringing them down here?\n