Environment
Put on by Townsend-Bertram, at 6:30 on February 6.
Date:
Monday, February 6, 2017 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location:
The Station (next to Carr Mill Mall)
I am copying here my letter to the OWASA Board of Directors regarding the proposal that they host the Mountains to Sea Trail (MST) on OWASA property along the West side of the Cane Creek Reservoir. The short answer is that I think they should agree to host it and I expect them to arrive at this same conclusion. The real debate will revolve around what conditions they include with their agreement.
Note that OWASA's approval of hosting MST would not be an endorsement of any proposed trail route. Their agreeing to host the trail does not guarantee that a route along the Cane Creek Reservoir can be worked out. It simply would be an acceptance of the idea of the MST in general, and help set guidelines that other landowners nearby can follow if they would also like to host the trail (full disclosure - I have offered to host nearly a mile of MST on property in the area. While I am a proponent of the trail, I am also a proponent of folks being good neighbors and will not support any trail route that negatively impacts folks living nearby).
The North Carolina chapter of the Sierra Club issued its endorsements this morning in the Chapel Hill Town Council election.
A friend shared this. It is really tough to protect our local environment with bad state bills.
The time to stop HB 765, the Polluter Protection Act, is now.
NC League of Conservation Voters From http://nclcv.org/news/cib/20150921/
Conservation Action: Stop the Polluter Protection Act!
The big environmental fight surely looming over the remainder of this legislative year deals with HB 765, now better known as the Polluter Protection Act.
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