“The law requires Smithfield to use cleaner technology, and Smithfield is not above the law,” says Attorney Blakely Hildebrand. “Smithfield must do more to stop its pollution and continued environmental injustices rather than clinging to the cheapest, most harmful method possible to handle untreated sewage collecting it in pits and spraying it onto fields when cleaner technology is available.”
Ignoring long-standing environmental justice and pollution concerns, the permits issued by the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality entrench a primitive waste lagoon and sprayfield system at each of the Smithfield-owned operations in which untreated sewage waste from thousands of animals will be collected in large pits and sprayed onto neighboring fields.
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Conservation groups have announced the purchase of the 2-mile Hutaff Island, one of the state’s last privately owned barrier islands. (Port City Daily photo/Courtesy Coastal Land Trust)
PENDER COUNTY Hutaff Island will be preserved in perpituity, thanks to Audubon N. C., the N. C. Coastal Land Trust, the Hutaff and McEachern family, and philanthropist Tim Sweeney.
Coastal Land Trust made the Earth Day announcement, sharing an agreement to protect all 1,300 acres of the island was signed by the conservation partnership this week.
Once connected to Lea Island, the 2-mile Hutaff Island is sandwiched by Figure 8 to its south and Topsail Beach to its north.
Many in agriculture found the Obama-era WOTUS rule to be a far overreach of federal government authority and the source of overly burdensome regulation and oversight. Regan, the former head of the NC Department of Environmental Quality, made the comments as part of the 2022 Budget Request for EPA during a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing. Regan says he wants to continue discussions with those in agriculture as the agency moves forward.
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