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North Carolina Coastal Federation: Urge Governor to Delay All Action on Titan
Monday, 01 February 2010 16:24

WILMINGTON – The N.C. Coastal Federation needs your help to persuade Gov. Beverly Perdue to freeze all permitting for the cement plant that Titan America is proposing to build north of Wilmington on the Northeast Cape Fear River.
In a letter to Purdue, the federation and two other conservation groups have asked for the delay while the State Bureau of Investigation looks into possible permit irregularities. Perdue ordered the review last year.


Recent media reports have detailed questionable campaign fundraising tactics used by former governor Mike Easley. A federal indictment of a top Easley aide said they contributed to a “pay-to-play” culture that allowed big-money contributors to influence environmental permitting decisions. See our website for more details. Those revelations, we note in our letter to Purdue, call into question actions taken by the N.C. Department of the Environment and Natural Resources regarding the Titan proposal. It, for instance, waived a requirement that projects like Titan’s undergo a comprehensive environmental review before state permits are issued. We have asked the N.C. Superior Court in Wake County the review that decision. Because of the revelations, the public has lost confidence that the department acted in the best interests of our coastal environment.

We urge you to support our efforts by contacting the governor’s office and request:

  • That the state not issues any environmental permits for Titan until the SBI investigation is concluded and until the state Superior Court has ruled on our lawsuit.
  • Direct the N.C. Division of Air Quality, which issued a draft air permit for Titan, to comply with the federal Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency regulations for pollution controls for cement plants that will take effect in June. The draft permit violates the Clean Air Act because it does not require Titan to control its emissions to the “maximum degree of reduction” that is achievable. This violation will mean that people in southeastern North Carolina will be exposed to more than 1,000 tons of polluted air each day.

You can write Perdue at the Office of the Governor, 20301 Mail Service Center, Raleigh 27699-0301. You can also email her.

Also send your comments to Tate Johnson, the director of Perdue’s Eastern Regional Office: 233 Middle St., O’Marks Building Suite 211, New Bern; 252-514-4825.
For further information contact Mike Giles, the federation’s Cape Fear Coastkeeper®, at 910-790-3275 or email him.

 

Read the PDF for this action alert here: Action Alert: Urge the Governor to Delay All Action on Titan (PDF)

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Dwayne Hill  - Stop Titan please   |2010-02-01 10:02:19
As a resident of Wilmington and frequent visitor to Castle Hayne for its mountain biking and disc golf I ardently wish that Titan not be allowed to set up a cement plant. At least confirm that they will not be poisoning our air, water and land. Wilmington depends on its natural resources for tourism, farming and fishing. By allowing a factory to destroy those things, it is in essence destroying lives. Not to mention the most definite concern of mercury leaking into the river and ground water which is highly toxic. Thanks for your support. If Titan is stopped then you have mine.

Dwayne Hill
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michele  - concerned citizen   |2010-02-01 11:19:45
the following was sent to Governor Perdue today: stoptitan.org hopes to have 5000 signatures tonite before the commissioners meeting at 6:30 at the courthouse in Wilmington. Although it is 20 degrees here at the beach we firmly believe that Carolina Cement Corp executives are not going to get their permit to build the titan plant in Castle Hayne. They have tried bribing the people with 160 jobs and 4 million in tax breaks so that they can poisen the air and water with mercury emissions from their stacks. I do not believe any Titan execs have their children enrolled in schools 10 miles radious of the plant. Do they want their families breathing in the contamination??? How did they get around the SEPA regs? Please have Governeor Perdue speak out against this permit and STOP TITAN NOW.
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