{"id":2501,"date":"2011-01-18T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T16:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/once-again-you-ignore-suggestions-john-s-quarterman.html"},"modified":"2011-01-18T11:43:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T16:43:05","slug":"once-again-you-ignore-suggestions-john-s-quarterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/once-again-you-ignore-suggestions-john-s-quarterman.html","title":{"rendered":"“Once again you ignore suggestions” –John S. Quarterman"},"content":{"rendered":"I just sent this. -jsq\n
\nFrom: “John S. Quarterman”\n
\nTo: Brad Lofton\n
\nCc: [see below]<\/a>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nResponding to\n\nBrad Lofton’s message,<\/a>\nactually\n\nDalton, Georgia already has a 365kW solar array installed and in use.<\/a>\nThat’s larger than the 350 kW array VLCIA has “about to break ground”,\nand Dalton got theirs without having to take a biomass plant with it.\n

\nAs for wood-sourced biomass,\n\nRayonier Jesup Mill produces around 78 MW,<\/a>\nwhich is more than the 40MW biomass plant VLCIA is thinking about starting.\nJesup also got high air and water pollution and high crime.\n

\nMeanwhile, Dublin is already hiring for 350 jobs for the MAGE SOLAR manufacturing\nplant, while VLCIA’s biomass plant would only bring 25 jobs.\n

\nOnce again you ignore suggestions for clean energy projects\nand reiterate the biomass plant and its bag-on-the-side solar plant\nas the whole of VLCIA’s plan.\n

\nFortunately, I have confidence that such experienced developers as\nthe VLCIA board can do better than that.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

\n

\nYou know, I would like to hear more about the 1,700 jobs you say\nVLCIA has created.\nWhere’s the project list with associated jobs?\nI’d love to link to it!\n

\nWhat about all the new projects that appear and disappear in VDT writeups?\nFor example,\nwhat happened to Project EARTH<\/a>, mentioned last May in the VDT:\n

\n…to construct a 700,000-square-foot vehicle manufacturing facility\nto build hybrid vehicles, which would create about 450 to 600 new jobs.\n<\/blockquote>\nI’d love to spend my blogging time writing about success stories from\nthe VLCIA, and I’d bet most of the community would love to be cheering\nyou on for such projects.\n

\nWhy, instead, is the VLCIA spending its political capital on a 25 job\nproposal that is provoking increasing opposition?\n

\n-jsq\n
\nJohn S. Quarterman\n<\/blockquote>\nHere’s who I copied. -jsq\n

\nCc:<\/a>\n“John S. Quarterman”, “Michael G. Noll”, “Mary B. Gooding”,\n“Ricketts, Allan”, “Copeland, Roy”, “Susan R. Wehling”, Kay Harris\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I just sent this. -jsq From: “John S. Quarterman” To: Brad Lofton Cc: [see below] Responding to Brad Lofton’s message, actually Dalton, Georgia already has a 365kW solar array installed and in use. That’s larger than the 350 kW array VLCIA has “about to break ground”, and Dalton got theirs without having to take a […]","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":[97,556,120,14,72,11,20,267,21,23,133,178,55],"tags":[193,1747,300,969,8701,793,189,186,847,548,8702,12,7,1169,185,181,183,182,6,8726,180,8749],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-air","category-biomass","category-economy","category-incarceration","category-lake","category-law","category-mage-solar","category-planning","category-renewable-energy","category-vdt","category-vlcia","category-water","tag-allan-ricketts","tag-brad-lofton","tag-development","tag-economics","tag-georgia","tag-industry","tag-j-stephen-gupton","tag-jerry-jennett","tag-jobs","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-marketing","tag-mary-gooding","tag-norman-bennett","tag-roy-copeland","tag-tom-call","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-city-council","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-El","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","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=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}