Amid the throng of 140,000 trade exhibitors and shoppers at the show in the spring of 2019, a team of North Carolina industrial recruiters sought out Pratt & Whitney representatives and had a moment to chat. Word had gotten out that a major net engine maker was looking to site a major new plant, and the economic development team from the Tar Heel state knew that landing the company would be big.
It was more of a ‘fit and feel’ situation, as much art as science,” Chris Chung, president of the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina and a leader of the recruiting team in Paris, said in an interview. “We seek out potential industries and meet with their executives. We didn’t know then exactly what they wanted.
An ongoing investigation into the failure of a hog farm lagoon in Jones County resulted in four violations sent to the owners on Wednesday.
DC Mills Farm owners Donnie and Christian Mills were previously warned twice in 2020 for issues regarding the lagoon.
On Feb. 19 the farm was notified by the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality of a deficiency regarding the water levels of the lagoon were too high in accordance with the facilities Certified Animal Waste Management plan. On July 9 they received notice of a violation for failure to maintain proper water levels of the lagoon.
The NCDEQ started investigating the farms oversight of the lagoon on Dec. 21 after approximately 1 million gallons of animal waste spilled into the Tuchahoe Creek. The creek, which is 300 feet away from the lagoon, also flows into the Trent River, connecting with the Neuse River and into the Pamlico Sound.
Who is Gov. Cooper appointing to empty Cabinet posts, legislative seats? Will Doran, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Jan. 13 RALEIGH With four Cabinet seats and two Wake County seats in the state legislature all up for grabs at the start of the new year, Gov. Roy Cooper has been busy appointing new people to those high-profile state government roles.
Democratic President-elect Joe Biden is responsible for one of the vacancies, after he tapped North Carolina environmental chief Michael Regan to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency after Biden takes office.
That leaves Cooper to pick a new N.C. Department of Environmental Quality secretary, to replace Regan, as Cooper begins his second term in office. The job will deal with everything from industrial and farming pollution, to continuing Cooper s goal of reducing North Carolina s greenhouse gas emissions.
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The blue circles represent farms closes to the pipeline route, represented by the orange line; however, these farms have not been confirmed as participating in the project. The black circles show the location of confirmed farms. (Base map and pipeline route, November 2019: Land Management Group, submitted to the US Army Corps of Engineers; farm locations based on DEQ mapping tool and documents, and USACE filings)
The NC Department of Environmental Quality has approved a controversial air permit for a proposed biogas gathering and processing facility in Turkey, on the Sampson and Duplin county line. However, the Align RNG facility, co-owned by Smithfield Foods and Dominion Energy, will not process biogas until the participating hog farms receive the required permits, DEQ announced today.