To the editor:
Two years ago, I attended the meeting of the Danville-Pittsylvania Regional Industrial Facility Authority where U.S. Green Energy representatives gave a motivational talk to the RIFA board of directors about handing over a piece of industrial park and as many grants of public money that could be drummed up. This was in order to start up a new company in Pittsylvania County that, like the infamous Solyndra, was to manufacture a product already being undersold by companies manufacturing the same product in China.
The RIFA board, which included Danville’s Mayor Sherman Saunders and the county’s board chairman Coy Harville, was so eager to invite U.S. Green Energy into the fold, so to speak, it almost seemed that this public money would be flowing in all directions.
Maybe the RIFA board was acting like a bunch of country bumpkins welcoming this new Pied Piper. But maybe the RIFA was playing a different game.
BARBARA HUDSON
Chatham
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