{"id":2469,"date":"2011-01-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/im-not-an-environmental-engineer-brad-lofton.html"},"modified":"2011-01-26T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T14:00:00","slug":"im-not-an-environmental-engineer-brad-lofton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/im-not-an-environmental-engineer-brad-lofton.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m not an environmental engineer&#8221; &#8211;Brad Lofton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s responding to <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/01\/i-also-would-like-specific-documentation-dr-sammons.html\">Dr. Sammons&#8217; email.<\/a> Hm, maybe VLCIA should get an environmental engineer on staff.<br \/>\n-jsq<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDate: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:11 PM<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFrom: Brad Lofton &lt;blofton@industrialauthority.com&gt;<\/p>\n<p>\nDr. Sammons:<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not an environmental engineer, so I would refer you to the hundreds<br \/>\nof environmental groups supporting our project, the federal EPA, the state<br \/>\nEPD<br \/>\n(not sure how it works in Mass, but these are the groups in GA that are<br \/>\ngiven legal authority to permit and regulate power plants, and after a<br \/>\nlengthy review, they have approved this project enthusiastically and<br \/>\ncertified its safety for GA), all the federal agencies, the FL Dept of<br \/>\nHealth, Dr. Chris Teaf, an expert toxicologist, and others.  It&#8217;s not my<br \/>\nopinion that counts regarding the absence of =93TONS=94 of dioxin and mercury<br \/>\nemissions you claim in your attempt to scare our community as you duck in<br \/>\nand out.  I&#8217;m actually quoting experts.  Dr. Teaf&#8217;s testimony is on our<br \/>\nsite, plus the EPD permit, Golder analysis, etc.  There&#8217;s plenty of<br \/>\nadditional info there as well for your enjoyment.  You are welcome to<br \/>\ncontinue e-mailing my staff, but rest assured, we are moving forward at this<br \/>\ntime.<\/p>\n<p>\nHave a nice day,<\/p>\n<p>\nBL<\/p>\n<p>\n*Brad Lofton*<br \/>\n<br \/>\nExecutive Director<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority<br \/>\n<br \/>\n2110 N. Patterson Street, Valdosta, GA<br \/>\n<br \/>\n229-259-9972 local<br \/>\n<br \/>\n877-259-9972 toll free<br \/>\n<br \/>\n229-300-3179 cell<\/p>\n<p>\nVisit us online @<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.industrialauthority.com\">www.IndustrialAuthority.com<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s responding to Dr. Sammons&#8217; email. Hm, maybe VLCIA should get an environmental engineer on staff. -jsq Date: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:11 PM From: Brad Lofton &lt;blofton@industrialauthority.com&gt; Dr. Sammons: I&#8217;m not an environmental engineer, so I would refer you to the hundreds of environmental groups supporting our project, the federal EPA, the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,120,48,32,178],"tags":[8738,1747,5136,180,8749,5073],"class_list":["post-2469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-code-enforcement","category-pollution","category-vlcia","tag-biomass","tag-brad-lofton","tag-dioxin","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia","tag-william-sammons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469","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=2469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}