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Newspaper Ad Highlighting Problems With Burning Poultry Litter
 Ad placed in March 15 Sampson Independent March 18, 2009: Citizens for a Safe Environment of Eastern North
Carolina (CSE), a BREDL chapter, placed a full-page ad in
Sunday’s Sampson Independent. The group raised issues that
have put their neighborhoods at risk.
Plans by a Pennsylvania company, Fibrowatt, to burn poultry
litter to produce electricity, threatens the local agriculture
economy, contributes to higher electricity rates, lowers property
values, and has negative impacts on air quality.
Locating the plant near a minority community, and close to area
schools and churches has raised issues of environmental justice
and attracted the attention of the North Carolina NAACP and other
groups. On Saturday NAACP President Rev. Dr. William Barber will
address a rally against Fibrowatt in Clinton.
The Sampson newspaper ad highlights several of the problems
associated with burning poultry litter:
• Sampson County is nationally ranked number one
in agriculture and an incinerator is incompatible with
the agricultural economy;
• Fibrowatt would receive millions in incentives,
but residents will get higher electric bills while
property values decline;
• Toxic emissions from burning poultry litter
include dioxins, lead, and arsenic;
• A recent USA Today report found Sampson County
schools already among the worst in the nation for toxic
air pollution;
• Locating the plant near the Martin Luther King
community unnecessarily increases their risk for toxic
exposure “once Fibrowatt lights up”.
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