Maybe you saw the headlines today from the News and Observer: The Southern Environmental Law Center sent Governor Perdue a letter yesterday requesting that she freeze any and all Titan permits. The request was made because of recent news reports in Raleigh's N & O and Wilmington's Star News that reveal Titan's possible role in the "pay-to-play" politics of  former Gov. Mike Easley's administration--particularly DENR's abrupt removal of the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) from the Titan cement project.

And the story keeps growing: In the same issue of the News & Observer, there's an opinion piece about what a good idea it would be to apply SEPA at this point:

Cement site - Opinion - NewsObserver

We've got the links in our Local News area as well. 

We've got the letter (as a PDF) in our Documents area here:

Letter from Southern Environment Law Center (SELC) to Gov. Bev Perdue (January 26th, 2010) (PDF)

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CC   |2010-02-02 03:52:18 look i dont know what all the big fuss is abt!! i have 2 kids and they support titan coming in here to CREATE JOBS. the only ones that i see fighting this is yall rich people who have your nice fancy jobs. you dont stop to think abt all of the people who work hard for their money until they lost their jobs! titan has done everything like they are supposed to do. i just dont understand why yall wont LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!!! Reply | Quote 1 1

Sw0rdf1sh   |2010-02-05 05:44:11 Obviously, the point can be made that it's educational and not wealth related regarding who is in opposition. There are no jobs worth ruining our environment, our existing tourism base which we so heavily rely on, and most importantly our childrens health. Those who take the time to be educated on the subject, see the red flags from the political misteps of an already proven corrupt administration, and lack of a proven SEPA review will understand that this was almost swept under a rug in front of all of our eyes. I'm glad this is an election year, those County Commissioners who are up are about to feel a lot of pain unless they start doing the right thing soon. Otherwise I'm pretty sure each of them should just go ahead and not seek re-election. Reply | Quote 0 0

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