{"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":"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.\n-jsq\n<blockquote>\nDate: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:11 PM\n<br>\nFrom: Brad Lofton &lt;blofton@industrialauthority.com&gt;\n<p>\nDr. Sammons:\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not an environmental engineer, so I would refer you to the hundreds\nof environmental groups supporting our project, the federal EPA, the state\nEPD\n(not sure how it works in Mass, but these are the groups in GA that are\ngiven legal authority to permit and regulate power plants, and after a\nlengthy review, they have approved this project enthusiastically and\ncertified its safety for GA), all the federal agencies, the FL Dept of\nHealth, Dr. Chris Teaf, an expert toxicologist, and others.  It&#8217;s not my\nopinion that counts regarding the absence of =93TONS=94 of dioxin and mercury\nemissions you claim in your attempt to scare our community as you duck in\nand out.  I&#8217;m actually quoting experts.  Dr. Teaf&#8217;s testimony is on our\nsite, plus the EPD permit, Golder analysis, etc.  There&#8217;s plenty of\nadditional info there as well for your enjoyment.  You are welcome to\ncontinue e-mailing my staff, but rest assured, we are moving forward at this\ntime.\n<p>\nHave a nice day,\n<p>\nBL\n<p>\n*Brad Lofton*\n<br>\nExecutive Director\n<br>\nValdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority\n<br>\n2110 N. Patterson Street, Valdosta, GA\n<br>\n229-259-9972 local\n<br>\n877-259-9972 toll free\n<br>\n229-300-3179 cell\n<p>\nVisit us online @\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.industrialauthority.com\">www.IndustrialAuthority.com<\/a>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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;]","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":[97,120,48,32,178],"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"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-DP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_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}]}}