{"id":2506,"date":"2011-01-17T10:21:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T15:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/what-is-your-plan.html"},"modified":"2011-01-17T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T15:21:19","slug":"what-is-your-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/what-is-your-plan.html","title":{"rendered":"What is your plan? –jsq to VLCIA board"},"content":{"rendered":"I just sent this. -jsq\n
\n\n<\/a>\nFrom: “John S. Quarterman”\n
\nTo: Brad Lofton\n
\nCc: [see below]<\/a>\n

\nSince I know of no public email address for the VLCIA board,\nI’m asking Brad Lofton to distribute this to the board\nbefore their meeting tomorrow.\n

\nDear Board,\n

\nThis is an update to my previous question to you,\nwhich was published in the Valdosta Daily Times, 20 Dec 2010,\navailable online here:\n

\nhttp:\/\/lake.typepad.com\/on-the-lake-front\/2010\/12\/whats-the-industrial-authoritys-plan.html\n

\nI’m sending this letter directly to you, and also publishing it online,\n

\nhttp:\/\/lake.typepad.com\/on-the-lake-front\/2010\/12\/what-is-your-plan.html\n

\nWhat is the Industrial Authority’s plan to bring in real clean jobs?\n

\nYour staff have claimed that Wiregrass Power LLC’s tiny solar plant plus\ntheir biomass plant will make us a “center of innovation excellence for\nrenewable and sustainable energy in Georgia.” Is that all?\n

\nIf so, let me make a few suggestions.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

\nOne of your panelists at your 6 Dec 2010 event said that\n“solar doesn’t cut it” and that to build a solar plant\nwith the same output as the proposed biomass plant would\nrequire 400 acres. It might take that many acres, but\nAustin and Houston, Texas are doing it on housetops and\nbusiness roofs, and the power is available when it\nis needed most: on hot summer days when people are\nrunning air conditioners. There are at least two\ncompanies right here in Lowndes County that could\nstart with that right now; all that is missing is\npolitical will and financing.\n

\nHouston, which gets less sun than Valdosta, also goes\ninto neighborhoods and asks homeowners whether they\nwant their houses refitted for insulation and efficiency,\nand then goes back and does the ones that say yes.\nThis employs a lot of local contractors.\n

\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’s PV manufacturing plant\nwith its 500 jobs went) didn’t stop with tiny plants with\n25 jobs and didn’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

\nThe only reason anyone can claim that Wiregrass Power LLC’s\ntiny solar plant will be the biggest in Georgia is because\nGeorgia lags far behind Texas, Florida, and North Carolina\nin solar. This is an opportunity to actually be the leader\nin clean energy for Georgia. Currently Hahira has that\ndistinction, with the only two recent domestic rooftop\nsolar PV installations around here. Think what they\ncould do if the Industrial Authority helped!\n

\nI see by your full page ad in the VDT and Brad Lofton’s\ncontinuing speaking tour that you are willing to do publicity.\nWhy not do it for real clean energy, and on a much larger scale?\n

\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

\nWhat is your plan?\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] Since I know of no public email address for the VLCIA board, I’m asking Brad Lofton to distribute this to the board before their meeting tomorrow. Dear Board, This is an update to my previous question to you, which was […]","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":[97,556,120,14,15,16,11,267,32,23,1569,178],"tags":[193,1747,300,969,8701,793,189,186,847,548,8702,12,7,1169,185,181,95,183,182,6,180,8749],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-air","category-biomass","category-economy","category-education","category-environment","category-lake","category-mage-solar","category-pollution","category-renewable-energy","category-suniva","category-vlcia","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-real-estate","tag-roy-copeland","tag-tom-call","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-Eq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","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=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}