Peter Schmidt Responds
By Guest Post | Sunday, October 11th, 2009 | PoliticsIn response to a previous post found here, Peter Schmidt offers this response which we publish unedited and complete.
“In response to Rachel West’s October 10, 2009, post on Bearing Drift, the writer is incorrect in stating there is any connection whatsoever between Agglite and the Battlefield Golf Club. Agglite was not involved with any marketing, advocacy, supply, sales or placement of any materials delivered to any portion of that project.
“Ms. West also implies a conflict between my service as DEQ Director and my business ventures. This also is incorrect, as I completely recused myself from any existing regulations or any regulatory initiatives already well underway prior to my arrival at the department to avoid any real or perceived conflict of interest.”
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“Early in 1995, roughly midway through [Peter]Schmidt’s time at the DEQ, an additional set of regulations was adopted that expanded beneficial-use provisions for fly ash. Schmidt said those regulations were “already in play” when he arrived at the department the year before. It was under those regulations that the Chesapeake golf course project eventually moved forward. Before and after his term as DEQ director – which lasted from June 1994 to June 1996 – Schmidt’s businesses were involved in an array of beneficial-use fly-ash projects in Hampton Roads, including Harbor Park, Tidewater Community College’s Virginia Beach campus, Portsmouth Naval Hospital, a stretch of Providence Road in Chesapeake and DEQ’s offices in Virginia Beach.”
By Robert McCabe, The Virginian-Pilot
© July 27, 2008
Paragraph 24
Please see the link below:
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/07/fly-ash-piles-challenge-rises-safe-disposal
“[Peter]Schmidt was an executive with Agglite Corp., which had an operation on the grounds of Dominion’s coal-fired power plant in the city. The company used fly ash generated at Dominion’s operation, where it was mixed with cement. Agglite aggressively pursued using fly ash in place of dirt for fill projects. In the early 1990s, before Schmidt’s stint at the DEQ, he met with Virginia regulators and successfully pushed for changes in the state’s solid-waste regulations that would allow beneficial uses of fly ash in construction projects.”
As fly ash piles up, the challenges for safe disposal rises
By Robert McCabe
The Virginian-Pilot
© July 27, 2008
Paragraph 23
http://hamptonroads.com/2008/07/fly-ash-piles-challenge-rises-safe-disposal
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