Instead, after he wrote the letter and failed to appear at the Dec. In filings, Carter claims he was misled by a county employee to believe he could be excused from a Board of Equalization hearing and have his assessment frozen for three years by writing a letter stipulating his agreement with the contested assessment. Despite the fact that the property is not in a conservation easement, Carter has maintained he bought it for hunting and fishing and not as an investment.
About a month after he bought the property he organized a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration in support of the spaceport and collected signatures from the Georgia delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives, according to a 2019 ranking by .Ĭarter’s land sits about 10 miles southwest of the proposed site of Spaceport Camden, for which he has been a vocal proponent. The 2020 tax assessment that Carter appealed put the land’s value at $274,000, about an eighth of what he paid two years prior.Ĭarter’s estimated net worth in 2019 was $66 million, making him the tenth wealthiest member of the U.S. The land is about 220 acres of wetlands and 250 acres of higher ground zoned for residential development. He paid $2.05 million to Challenged Investments LLC, according to Camden County records. But in 2018 he bought an undeveloped Camden property that’s about half the size of the town of Thunderbolt. He can be reached at and on Twitter.Carter, Coastal Georgia’s only Congressional representative, lives in Chatham County. Will Peebles is the enterprise reporter for Savannah Morning News. We do have a responsibility to address some of the things that are happening with our climate."
"So no, I don't consider it to be a crisis. I refer to it as the Select Committee on Climate Change," Carter said. "The only thing I will tell you is this: I have never referred to this select committee as the Select Committee on (the) Climate Crisis. In June of this year, Carter said he doesn’t refer to the Climate Crisis committee by its name, because he’s not convinced the world is in a climate crisis. Everything is on the table, and everything has got to be addressed." "We know that we've got to address climate change so it's just one of those things that has to be addressed regardless of whether it is the primary reason for it or not. "Regardless of whether it's mostly (caused by human activity) or not, it has to be addressed," Carter told SMN in 2019. Later in 2019, Carter said he accepted the scientific conclusion that climate change is real and that industrial activity contributes to it, though he sidestepped a question about how much humans are to blame. “There are a lot of ways that we can address this without destroying our economy: the Green New Deal will destroy our economy, not only will it cost $93 trillion, but it will essentially destroy our economy and nobody wants that,” Carter said on an episode of SMN's Difference Makers podcast. Carter’s support of clean energy efforts is often tied to economic viability. That year, Carter was already plugging clean energy solutions after a trip to Antwerp, Belgium, where he saw the success of wind farms there. More: Georgia Congressman Buddy Carter all-in on climate change "Our natural resources in Georgia are one of our greatest assets, and we need to take care of them," Carter said.īy 2019, Carter's attitude had evolved: climate change is real, and human activity is contributing to it, Carter said after his appointment to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, a bipartisan committee formed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that January. More: Buddy Carter serves on the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis but believes there's no crisis He also plugged Georgia’s solar power initiatives. 80 due to rising sea levels as an example of the effects climate change has on his district. In a video interview with CCE released alongside the award, Carter mentioned the flooding of U.S. 22 by Conservatives for Clean Energy, a North Carolina-based organization that hopes to "educate conservative policy makers, opinion leaders, grassroots leaders, and conservatives in general on the benefits of clean energy – specifically, solar, wind, energy efficiency, smart grid, energy storage, and the innovative technologies that advance clean energy adoption," according to their website. Buddy Carter was presented last week with the Congressional Clean Energy Champion Award for being “tremendously supportive of clean energy efforts."Ĭarter was named the winner on Sept.