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\n\n<\/a>\nDuring the citizens to be heard portionof the meeting, Dr. Michael Noll\nreiterated concerns his wife, Karen, presented to the board during its\nlast meeting regarding the proposed Wiregrass Biomass Plant.\n
\nNoll spoke about his concerns with the project and lack of straight\nanswers he has received from the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial\nAuthority’s (VLCIA).\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n
\nDuring a meeting held Monday night, members of the VLCIA met with area schools,\nNoll said, ignoring their concerns about the biomass plant.\n\nFurther, he said, the should be looking into the health of the citizens\nand the economy.\n
\nAt one point, Chairman Ashley Paulk asked Noll to stick to the facts\nand not make any accusations against the VLCIA, as he would not allow\nthem to make accusations toward him.\n
\nMichael concluded voicing his concerns with the dangers of the biomass\nplant, backed by research and study results.\n
\n“We owe it to our children, our neighbors and friends,”\nNoll said, to make wise decisions about the project.\n
\n—”Board won’t join city in opening clinic,” 5A, Valdosta Daily Times, Wednesday, September 29, 2010\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Appended is an extract from the VDT’s writeup on the Lowndes County Commission meeting of 28 Sep 2010. The “area schools” was the Valdosta Board of Education meeting of the previous evening, 27 Sep 2010. Much more about that here. The list of concerns Dr. Noll presented in writing is already blogged here as Let\u2019s […]","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":[97,120,47,15,41,88,23,73,289,24,1106,178],"tags":[1691,8734,561,180],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-climate-change","category-education","category-health-care","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-renewable-energy","category-safety","category-science","category-solar","category-vboe","category-vlcia","tag-karen-noll","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-michael-g-noll","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-FV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","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=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}