Media Advisory, May 8, 2014,
Joint Meeting : Person County-Roxboro Joint Meeting on Coal Ash Today
CONTACT: Louis Zeller (336) 977-0852
Person County-Roxboro Joint Meeting on Coal Ash Today:
Person County-Roxboro Joint Meeting on Coal Ash Today:
Today there will be a Joint Meeting of the Person County Board of Commissioners and the Roxboro City Council to discuss the coal ash spill on the Dan River.
The meeting, which takes place at 6 PM at the Person County Office Building auditorium at 304 Morgan Street in Roxboro
, will feature speakers from Duke Energy, NC Dept. of Natural Resources, the Dan ...River Basin Association and the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League.
Republic Services’ Upper Piedmont Landfill in Rougemont plans to bring five million pounds of the toxic mixture from Duke Energy’s Eden coal plant spill to Person County.
Today officials will hear from all sides of the debate.
Lou Zeller, Executive Director of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and an invited speaker to the May 8 meeting, will detail his organization’s findings on the hazards and alternatives to landfills.
His conclusion, “No community should allow itself to become the industry’s coal scuttle.”
