{"id":2396,"date":"2011-02-16T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/environmental-apartheid-and-envieronmental-racism-leigh-touchton-vcc-10-feb-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-02-16T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T15:32:11","slug":"environmental-apartheid-and-envieronmental-racism-leigh-touchton-vcc-10-feb-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/environmental-apartheid-and-envieronmental-racism-leigh-touchton-vcc-10-feb-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Environmental apartheid and envieronmental racism &#8211;Leigh Touchton, VCC, 10 Feb 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BqbAqg-uS6U\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/BqbAqg-uS6U\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nNAACP reiterates charges of environmental racism,\ndespite claims from Brad Lofton, Executive Director of the\nValdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority,\nthat <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/01\/crept-up.html\">\n&#8220;all of a sudden we haven&#8217;t heard anymore about environmental racism.&#8221;<\/a>\nLeigh Touchton, president of the local NAACP chapter,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BqbAqg-uS6U\">\npresents to the Valdosta City Council<\/a>\nresearch published by\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/02\/a-foot-in-the-door-to-bring-in-more-toxic-waste-streams-robert-d-bullard.html\">\nRobert D. Bullard<\/a> about environmental apartheid.\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K4inXY9j-WY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<center>\n<small>\nRegular meeting of the Valdosta City Council, 10 February 2011.<br>\nVideo by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.\n<\/small>\n<\/center>\nShe\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/02\/a-foot-in-the-door-to-bring-in-more-toxic-waste-streams-robert-d-bullard.html\">\nposted the appended as a comment<\/a>\non the previous LAKE post about Robert D. Bullard&#8217;s report.\n<p>\n-jsq\n<blockquote>\nDear Mr. Quarterman:\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThank you for posting this article. I gave it to the City Council\nand reiterated Dr. Bullard&#8217;s research:\n<p>\n1. 80% of the residents within one mile of the proposed Wiregrass\nPower Plant are black. Dr. Bullard is the nation&#8217;s premier expert on this\nsubject. He, unlike the RDC, uses GIS and the latest census demographics\nto research this issue. His findings are in stark contrast to what the\nVLCIA Executive Director Brad Lofton has been promoting. Dr. Bullard is\nDirector of the Environmental Justice Dept at Clark Atlanta University.\n<p>\n2. 75% of biomass facilities in Georgia are sited in minority\/poor\ncommunities.\n<p>\nThis is what is called environmental racism.\n<p>\nContrary to what Mr. Lofton, Executive Director at VLCIA, has\nbeen saying publicly, the Valdosta NAACP has never backed down from\nour position about this. Environmental racism is real, the Wiregrass\nBiomass plant siting clearly constitutes environmental racism, and\nthe mission statement of the NAACP is to fight against environmental\nracism. We have kept our position prominently displayed on our website:\nwww.valdostanaacp.com\n<p>\nThere are two City Councilmen who shouldn&#8217;t have to be told this\nimportant concept: James Wright and Sonny Vickers. Unfortunately,\nboth men have publicly supported the building of the Wiregrass Power\nLLC incinerator.\n<p>\nI hope readers in Wright&#8217;s and Vickers&#8217; districts will contact\ntheir councilmen and demand that they step up and protect the health of\nthe citizens of the Southside community, and NOT sell graywater to the\nBiomass incinerator. If Valdosta City Council refuses to sell graywater\nto the Wiregrass Power LLC plant, the plant will probably not get built\nbecause it will have to seek permits to pull 800,000 gallons per day\nfrom the underground aquifer. This amount of water will cause shallow\nwells to run dry.\n<p>\nI urge city residents in Wright&#8217;s and Vickers&#8217; districts to contact\ntheir councilman and demand that they vote to protect citizens&#8217; health\nrather than further the interests of wealthy Atlanta investors.\n<p>\nLeigh Touchton, President\n<br>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/01\/crept-up.html\">\nValdosta-Lowndes NAACP<\/a>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAACP reiterates charges of environmental racism, despite claims from Brad Lofton, Executive Director of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority, that &#8220;all of a sudden we haven&#8217;t heard anymore about environmental racism.&#8221; Leigh Touchton, president of the local NAACP chapter, presents to the Valdosta City Council research published by Robert D. Bullard about environmental apartheid. 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