HomeMy WebLinkAboutFW_ _External_ _Mining Permit 92-10_ Request an end to qthe quarry operation next to Umstead State ParkJohnson, Robert E
From: Sams, Dan
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 8:38 AM
To: NCMiningProgram
Subject: FW: [External] [Mining Permit 92-10] Request an end to the quarry operation next to
Umstead State Park
From: Judith Kitrick [mailto:info@sg.actionnetwork.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 7:41 AM
To: Sams, Dan <dan.sams@ncdenr.gov>
Subject: [External] [Mining Permit 92-10] Request an end to the quarry operation next to Umstead State Park
TO Al...L.. CONCERNED. l AM WRITING HERE, IN MY CAPACITY OF
PRESIDENT AND DARECTRIIX OF PUFFIN FOUNDATION WEST, L.TD
WHIZ H IS A PRIVATE IN FP 501 (C)(C3) WHIZ H WORKS l IN STATES
CONTIGUOUS TO OHIC, AND NC. RAL-EIGH IS OUR "HOPE IT DOES
NOT SNOW(BIRD) PL-ACE". Our Mission Iprovlides giraint fuin6ing to artists
to reach across Ibiases and create dialogues that are IpeaceaIbly
train sforimi in g, educating and moving our society liin a forward hooking,
forward tNlinkiing and einllighteined imainineir. We Ikinow that artists and the
u6lveirsall Ilainguage of ART are able to reach across Ibotlh Iplhysicall Iboirdeirs
and the Ibouindairiies of our liirnagliinatioin. We Ihave Iprovlided imainy giraints
related to climate chainge and Ihow so imainy activities Iby Ibainiksteirs and
gireedsteirs inegafivelly affect ordinary IpeopNe.
In imainy of your course and scope positions of representing the IpeopNe of
NC and this county etc., clearly the fiinainciall deal that you imade to a
company that wilIll make hundreds upoin hundreds of mflfioins of dollars
cannot Ibe defended.
The (basic fact is that just the dust aIloine from such imiinlling wiIlV for 5
decades llimpact the future health of those Illiviing and yet to Ibe (born. The list
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of IheaIltlh issues 1I Ikinow are Ikinowin to you and frainHy you cannot cVallrn that
iginoraince is Iblliss llin this regard, as you too wulIkl Ibe adveirselly effected. So
how can you do sometINling that llin contra to your own heafth( and weffaire)
It is Ik1ke inot weairling airaslk llin these days of WUHAN. The Ibflklioins of years
that lit took to create that inatui4l woirld cannot Ibe iginoired and your
disrespect of motheir inatuire and aIlkl of her creatures Ibig and srna�lkl lis
obscene, as that is th6lir Ilaind too. Thank you for your firne, and to those of
you who do inot yet get lit, SHAME ON YOU.
Ju6th IKitrllclk
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RaIleiglh, North Cairofina 27612