{"id":2489,"date":"2011-01-22T10:08:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T15:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/pollution-and-a-private-prison-dr-mark-george.html"},"modified":"2011-01-22T10:08:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T15:08:01","slug":"pollution-and-a-private-prison-dr-mark-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/pollution-and-a-private-prison-dr-mark-george.html","title":{"rendered":"Pollution and a Private Prison? &#8211;Dr. Mark George"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5378049908\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5283\/5378049908_edbb9eb4d8_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nAs\n<a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/local\/x530790180\/Opponents-to-proposed-biomass-plant-speak-out-at-meeting\">\nthe VDT transcribed<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;I think we can do better than a generator that burns human waste.\nI think we can do better than a private prison\nand those are two things that we seem to be excited about\nas a community.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\nDr. Mark George\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XHOns-LUugU\">\nspoke to the Valdosta City Council,<\/a> 20 Jan 2011:\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XHOns-LUugU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\nWe&#8217;ve previously written about <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/12\/cca-private-prisons-and-az-immigration-law.html\">\nCCA private prisons and AZ immigration law<\/a> on 21 December 2010:\n<blockquote>\nConsidering how many local farmers and others around here use hispanic\nhelp without inquiring closely as to where they come from, a CCA prison\nin Lowndes County would be more than ironic.\n<p>\nSpending state tax dollars to lock people up while cutting funding for\neducation that would cost less per person doesn&#8217;t seem like a good idea\nto me.\n<p>\nIs this what we want to be known for?\n<\/blockquote>\nAnd in\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/12\/if-its-sunny-enough-in-buffalo.html\">\nIf it&#8217;s sunny enough in Buffalo<\/a>\non 16 September 2010:<\/a>\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\nIn response to complaints about proposed polluting industries such as\n<a href=\"\/blog\/category\/biomass\">a biomass plant<\/a>\nor private prisons, I hear: &#8220;We can&#8217;t turn down everything!&#8221;\n<p>\nWell, if we actively promoted real clean industry such as solar,\nwe&#8217;d get more industry we wouldn&#8217;t want to turn down.\n<\/blockquote>\nAs I mentioned\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/01\/what-is-your-plan.html\">\nto the VLCIA board,<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nMeanwhile, places like Austin, Houston, and Dublin, Georgia\n(with its MAGE SOLAR plant with 350 jobs), Raleigh, North Carolina,\nand Saginaw, Michigan (where Suniva&#8217;s PV manufacturing plant\nwith its 500 jobs went) didn&#8217;t stop with tiny plants with\n25 jobs and didn&#8217;t recruit larger plants through secrecy.\nDublin wears green, Saginaw calls itself Solar Valley,\nand in each case business, academia, government, and the\npublic work in concert.\n<p>\n&#8230;\n<p>\nMaybe you could pursue some of these ideas.  Maybe you have\nothers that are better.  At your last board meeting Norman\nBennett told us the problem was disunity in the community.\nYou can work out with the community something worth uniting behind.\n<\/blockquote>\nVLCIA is\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/01\/were-industrial-development-mary-gooding.html\">at least interested in\nexpanding the solar array VLCIA it is currently planning.<\/a>\nIf we went more in that direction and less towards pollution\nand private prisons, we&#8217;d be a more attractive place for industry.\n<p>\nWe can turn down industry we don&#8217;t want,\nand that will help attract industry we do want.\n<p>\nVideo of regular meeting, Valdosta City Council, 20 January 2011,\nby John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the VDT transcribed: &#8220;I think we can do better than a generator that burns human waste. 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