{"id":2598,"date":"2010-10-07T11:11:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T15:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/michael-noll-enough-is-enough.html"},"modified":"2010-10-07T11:11:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T15:11:59","slug":"michael-noll-enough-is-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/michael-noll-enough-is-enough.html","title":{"rendered":"Michael Noll: “enough is enough”"},"content":{"rendered":"Here is a followup to \nthe VDT story in the previous post.<\/a>\n

\n-jsq\n

\nDear Lowndes County Commissioners.\n

\nMy sincere thanks for letting me present my concerns at yesterday’s\nmeeting. It is very much appreciated.\n

\nPlease understand that what I presented is based on facts. I have\nworked for ten years at VSU as an educator, and my students and\ncolleagues know me as a straightforward person. I may ruffle some\nfeathers at times, but I clearly was brought up in a no-nonsense\nhousehold.\n

\nIf Mr. Lofton would not continue to ignore our concerns (as he again\ndid at the BOE meeting), to misrepresent organizations such as the\nSierra Club (an organization I happen to support), or to keep\nbringing up names of those who endorse the biomass plant (yet\nconveniently overlooks a conflict of interest), I\u00a0 probably would\nhave never brought this up. However, during these past couple weeks,\nand particularly with his behavior at the BOE meeting, Mr. Lofton\nhas added insult to injury, and enough is enough.\n

\nTo substantiate the comments I made yesterday,\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

\nfind below some links\nplus attached my open letter to the Industrial Authority and a fact\nsheet you should also be familiar with. Fell free to use them.\nShould you have any questions, I will be more than happy to answer\nthem.\n

\nI am all for investing in our community and to bring jobs to our\nregion, but the price is too high in terms of health risks, and we\nDO have alternatives available.\n

\nAgain, my sincere thanks for listening.\n

\nWith warm regards, Michael G. Noll.\n

\nAmerican Heart Association<\/a>,\n

\nAmerican Lung Association<\/a>,\n

\nAmerican Cancer Society<\/a>,\n

\nWHO<\/a>,\n

\nSave Americas Forests<\/a>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here is a followup to the VDT story in the previous post. -jsq Dear Lowndes County Commissioners. My sincere thanks for letting me present my concerns at yesterday’s meeting. It is very much appreciated. Please understand that what I presented is based on facts. I have worked for ten years at VSU as an educator, […]","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":[97,556,120,47,141,216,15,16,740,2,41,88,21,32,23,73,289,24,1106,178],"tags":[5330,193,5305,4630,5336,5329,8738,4469,1747,5318,2153,5334,2043,5319,8704,8754,5339,188,3436,8701,8708,5343,5338,1790,5219,5327,5326,876,5340,4131,2049,5342,847,1691,154,7,8734,5331,5111,5332,1809,561,5220,3437,5337,5317,5333,4529,5328,5320,4530,5221,5321,5322,5323,8715,8713,5207,5335,5314,5293,5292,5341,4533,6,1619,2900,1175,180,8816,8742,8749,5316,5325,5324,8743,294,4123],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-air","category-biomass","category-climate-change","category-co2","category-coal","category-education","category-environment","category-forestry","category-government","category-health-care","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-planning","category-pollution","category-renewable-energy","category-safety","category-science","category-solar","category-vboe","category-vlcia","tag-air-pollutants","tag-allan-ricketts","tag-american-cancer-society","tag-american-lung-association","tag-asthma-exacerbation","tag-baghouse-filtration-technology","tag-biomass","tag-brad-bergstrom","tag-brad-lofton","tag-carbon-monoxide","tag-children","tag-childrens-health-study","tag-clean","tag-co","tag-economy","tag-energy-conservation","tag-energy-consumption","tag-executive-director","tag-friends","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-power","tag-global-climate-change","tag-governor-perdue","tag-green","tag-gretchen-bielmyer","tag-hap","tag-hazardous-air-pollutants","tag-health","tag-health-risks","tag-incinerator","tag-insolation","tag-jill-stuckey","tag-jobs","tag-karen-noll","tag-landfill","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-lung-cancer","tag-lung-disease","tag-medical-associations","tag-mercury","tag-michael-g-noll","tag-mud-creek-wastewater-treatment-plant","tag-neighbors","tag-new-onset-asthma","tag-nitrogen-oxide","tag-north-carolina-academy-of-family-physicians","tag-nox","tag-older-adults","tag-particulate-matter","tag-particulates","tag-perimeter-road","tag-pm","tag-pm10","tag-pm2-5","tag-pollution","tag-renewable-energy","tag-retrofitting","tag-school-absences","tag-sewage-sludge","tag-so2","tag-sulfur-dioxide","tag-sustainable-future","tag-tom-manning","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-board-of-education","tag-valdosta-daily-times","tag-valdosta-state-university","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vboe","tag-vdt","tag-vlcia","tag-vlcia-solar","tag-vocs","tag-volatile-organic-compounds","tag-vsu","tag-wastewater","tag-wiregrass-power-llc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-FU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598","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=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}