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Letter to the editor: Wake up call

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Staff

Wake up and smell the petroleum in your drinking water, citizens of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County!

Perhaps a site has not been chosen yet, but we, the citizens, are not willing to wait to let it be known that this is an environmental disaster in the making, beyond being a gift to a few wealthy pilots and buddies of the university. Many of the priority sites of the 2005 Talbert & Bright Study (which concluded RDU was optimal for the continuing APEC operations), are within the watershed for the city’s water supply. Add that to the University suddenly being in the airport business, using taxpayers’ dollars (estimated $35-50 million) and eminent domain to usurp the rights of county residents to their homes, farms and livelihoods. All so private pilots can save a few minutes in traffic.

UNC has claimed it wants to reduce its carbon footprint. How does that jive if we are expending more aviation fuel, polluting the air, paving more farmland and polluting the groundwater and city reservoirs? In this age of technology, surely AHEC can find ways to teach through video- conferencing and run its few needed flights from RDU. And pilots can take the extra few minutes from RDU where an adequate infrastructure already exists.

Meanwhile, we will have saved millions, kept the water and air clean and saved the lives of many residents who have been a vital part of this county for generations.
Tired of the old boys’ network wasting your tax money for the wealthy few? Start here at home by saying NO to an airport in Orange County!

Virginia Leslie

Orange County

1 thought on “Letter to the editor: Wake up call”

  1. ManWeaver says:
    October 16, 2008 at 2:44 pm

    NIMBY. Nice.

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