Seriously, these wackos have had over a year to come up with their protest. They’ve been looking to get it going for that long, getting all the permits and approvals, but, now when it is actually happening?
Environmental activists voice concerns about plans to build Buc-ee’s in Mebane
Activists gathered in Mebane on Tuesday to speak out against Buc-ee’s planned near the intersection of Interstate 40 and 85. It that would be the gas station’s first location in North Carolina.
The popular, super-sized gas station and convenience store is set to be built on 34 acres along Trollingwood Hawfields Road. Construction could be complete by 2027.
On Tuesday, a group called the Seven Directions of Service and other speakers shared a new report about the environmental, economic and health impacts of the gas station.
“This is more than a story about a gas station,” Rania Masri, co-director of the NC Environmental Justice Network, said. “This is a story about public health [and] environmental justice.”
Multiple speakers voiced concern about toxic pollution from gas stations and idling cars putting neighboring parks, homes and schools at risk.
Have all these eco-zealots given up their own use of fossil fuels?
(IndyWeek) The gathering was pegged to the release of “Buc-ee’s Burden,” a 34-page report examining the health, environmental, and economic impacts of mega gas stations. The report was commissioned by the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network and the Indigenous-led environmental justice organization 7 Directions of Service and authored by local journalist Lewis Raven Wallace with contributions from Raleigh-based energy policy researcher Sue Sturgis.
“This report calls on all of us—residents, leaders, and policy makers—to protect our people, to say no to environmental racism, and to build a future that truly serves the public good instead of subsidizing corporate harm,” said Rania Masri, co-director of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network.
Building a gas station with all the other stuff Buc-ees has is “environmental racism”? Wackos.
Anti-enviroweenie Mr Teach likely did not read the report he linked.
But then he’s an anti-environment wacko like all MAGAs.
Yup, leftists care so much about the environment they let the EPA dump toxic waste into the Colorado river, leave a bunch of trash after their annual Earth Day worship, let people defecate on the streets of San Francisco, and encourage homeless bums to proliferate and spread their trash everywhere, which requires hazmat teams to clean up.
Yup, that’s some environmental stewardship right there.
Oh, and they love the ChiComs, the biggest polluter on the planet. Beijing’s sunsets must look awesome, what with all the stifling, choking smog they have.
Speaking of ChiComs: What’s green on the outside and red on the inside?
What the hell is “environmental racism”? Just another made-up liberal mantra that they found a way insert “racism”. The go-to “argument” when you don’t have…a real argument.
It’s a nonsense niggardly term used by people of low intelligence.
When someone says, “to say no to environmental racism,” you know that they are not serious people.
Me? I’m still waiting for the promised Wawas in Lexington. Wawa coffee is the bomb!
Mr Dana is correct. Environmental racism is endemic worldwide. And always has been.
The best way to combat it is to reduce the sources of pollution!!
Mr trump is on it for you. He wants to remove all pollution restrictions for all but the richest.
Environmental racism is putting environmental hazards in poor (often minority) neighborhoods. But youse guys knew that.
Recall the Flint MI water Crisis. Camp Lejeune drinking water contamination. Decades of uranium mining on Navajo land in New Mexico. Toxic waste siting in communities of color. Uniontown AL where the TVA dumped tons of coal ash. Hazardous waste facilities in Chester PA. Battery recycling smelter in West Dallas TX. They route highways and traii tracks through poor areas.
It may be more correctly called environmental “classism”.
I suspect there is no Wawa or Buc-ees near Mar-a-Lago!! In fact, there are no gas stations within a mile!
It sucks to be poor, even in the United States. Living next to a landfill is the poor man’s burden.
It sucks to be you, Rimjob.
You forgot Times Beach, hoosier. Isn’t that close enough to home for you?
Those hardest hit could always just refuse to work there or shop there. Then the store would go out of business and lose their investment That would teach them to not spread their poison around.
The working poor don’t have as many options as we professors.
What about the non-working poor, like homeless bums and welfare queens? Do they have options?
As usual talking about something you know nothing about. GFY.