{"id":2466,"date":"2011-01-26T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/granting-a-permit-is-not-evaluating-safety.html"},"modified":"2011-01-26T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T17:01:00","slug":"granting-a-permit-is-not-evaluating-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/granting-a-permit-is-not-evaluating-safety.html","title":{"rendered":"Granting a permit is not evaluating safety –Dr. Sammons"},"content":{"rendered":"Dr. Sammons responds to\n\nBrad Lofton’s email.<\/a> -jsq\n
\nFrom: Bill [Sammons]\n
\nCc: [Dr. Noll, Kay Harris, jsq, lhenderson, hopeforcleanwater]\n
\nTo: blofton@industrialauthority.com, leigh.touchton@gmail.com,\naricketts@industrialauthority.com, [Roy Copeland, Mary Gooding]\n
\nDate: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:44:54 -0500\n
\nSubject: Re: Background information on Dr. Christopher Teaf\n

\nDear Mr. Lofton:\n

\nHaving talked with many different people in different departments\nin multiple state governments I do not think that any of them\nwould suggest that granting a permit is the same as “do nothing but\nevaluate the safety of these projects”. When asked they all say the are\nfollowing the guidelines set out by EPA\/state regulations– they are\nnot evaluating the safety of each project. Many will admit in private\nthat the regulations\/guidelines are not up to date with science, but\nthe people in the permitting agencies do not have the authority to grant\nthe permit based on the best available science\/data. It’s not dissimilar\nto discussions of BACT– depending on the size of the stationary source\nnot all BACT is the same.\n

\nAs an example if you look at the EPA regulations on PM 2.5\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

\nthe process,\nwhich commenced in 1998, is still not finished because– for reasons\nI have exhaustively explained to Mr. Ricketts, and less thoroughly\nto you since you have not attended as many\nmeetings\/presentations\/discussions– each time the EPA has set\na potential threshold the evolving science has demanded that the\nlevel be set lower. AND there is no regulation at this point for\nPM smaller than 2.5 microns because the regulatory process is so slow\nthat it is approximately four years behind the science.\n

\nClearly the EPA in the last two weeks has declared that the subject of\n“carbon neutrality” needs “further study” and the new MACT and boiler\nrules are clear indications that the previous regulations were inadequate.\n

\nGiven the fact that your statements indicate that there will be\n“no dioxin” release and you ignore the fact in your statement\nthat “99% of the particulates will be removed” dismisses the\ntruth that the most medically significant particles will not\nbe removed, I can see how you can maintain that there is\n“no doubt about the safety” of the proposed plant. Unfortunately,\nlike other statements, it simply is not true as multiple major medical\norganizations in the country have informed you, but, for reasons that\nescape logic or common sense, the Industrial Authority and the city\nofficials of Jasper choose to ignore.\n

\nThe readily available evidence on Dr. Teaf brings to mind the statement\nthat “you get what you pay for”– we saw it in Gretna, FL. Is that\na singular incident?\n

\nBill Sammons\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Sammons responds to Brad Lofton’s email. -jsq From: Bill [Sammons] Cc: [Dr. Noll, Kay Harris, jsq, lhenderson, hopeforcleanwater] To: blofton@industrialauthority.com, leigh.touchton@gmail.com, aricketts@industrialauthority.com, [Roy Copeland, Mary Gooding] Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:44:54 -0500 Subject: Re: Background information on Dr. Christopher Teaf Dear Mr. Lofton: Having talked with many different people in different departments in […]","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":[97,120,48,16,41,32,178],"tags":[3271,8738,1747,4020,180,8749,5073],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-code-enforcement","category-environment","category-health-care","category-pollution","category-vlcia","tag-arsenic","tag-biomass","tag-brad-lofton","tag-leigh-touchton","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia","tag-william-sammons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-DM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","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=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}