Why Titan needs to be sent home to Greece

1- Would rather pay fines than comply with rules and regulations.

2- Would rather lobby Congress to reduce pollution standards, instead of using this money to make

existing plants less polluting.

3- File lawsuits against U.S. Citizens that dare to oppose them and speak the truth in public forums.

4- File lawsuits to slow down required compliance, thus being allowed to continue to pollute, while a lawsuit that can not be won, clogs up the court systems, as a stalling tactic.

5- Lobbied the NC House to get a waiver on the requirement that new towns wait 5 years before having

their own zoning boards. This was tried on the bill for the vote on Castle Hayne becoming a town. I

wonder if Titan was behind this whole rushed vote on Castle Hayne becoming a town, maybe trying

to buy a town?

6- Real possibility of wells going dry in the Castle Hayne area once Titan starts their massive operation,

I guess the homeowners will have to be burdened with the cost of new wells, thus being forced to

subsidize a foreign corporation.

6a- Plant will sit on top of the aquifer that supplies clean drinking water for a large area, thus the threat of polluting the water source of entire communities, also the plant footprint will destroy acres of wetlands.

7- Uses coal instead of less polluting natural gas to fire their plants.

8- Will not give an exact number of jobs or pay scales that will be available to people in the Castle

Hayne and surrounding area. If this is one of the reasons Titan is using to gain support for their

proposed new plant, why is the number of jobs such a secret?

9- Have used subterfuge with name changes and green buttons supporting this plant to try and cause

confusion and the illusion of being concerned with the environment. Why not use this money to

really upgrade your plants, so they would be a cleaner neighbor?

10- Coal is not clean! The coal industry has started this BS clean coal campaign, it might be clean when

compared to a waste lagoon on a hog farm, but not much else. Black lung disease has killed many

people, and this is just from the dust from mining it, consider burning it and sending it into the sky so

everyone for miles around gets to breathe it, and this proposed plant cares about the environment

and the people that live around it?

11- The proposed plant will be located in the 2^nd most polluted county (New Hanover) in N.C., and

next to an already polluted river (the northeast cape fear). Even if Titan followed all rules and

regulations, which past history proves beyond a shadow of a doubt they won't, new pollution will

be added to an already polluted area. It is well past time to start cleaning up pollution, NOT

ADDING more pollution. This alone, is reason enough to not allow this plant.

12- Titan uses any means necessary to get what it wants, and could care less about the aftermath of

what it does. Our country does not need any more pollution from foreign corporations, anyone

remember BP and the Gulf of Mexico? And no, Titan is not BP, but it is a foreign corporation

that cares about nothing but maximum profit, and why not? When they are done, they can go

back to Greece, and leave the mess for us to deal with.

13- This proposed plant, if allowed to open, is going to be close to 5 schools, 2 which are elementary.

Even in today's society, if profit and greed trump the environment and health of adults, has it

become so bad that the safety of children is not an issue or consideration? Here again, this is

reason enough that this plant should not be allowed to open.

14- Titan also turned down 4.2 million (yes millions) in incentives that they once said were necessary for them to come here, once they found out extra environmental safe guards would be required. If they care about the environment and the people that live around their plants, why is this a concern? This, if nothing else, should prove once and for all that Titan will not be, and does not plan to be a good neighbor, or be concerned with the environment. Please say NO to this mess before it happens.