*** Speaking to DEQ on Methyl Bromide | bcbeat

Brunswick Environmental Action Team

BEAT is deeply disappointed that the U.S. Federal government has let the clear and present evidence of mis-direction and criminal negligence, by both DuPont and Chemours, go unaccounted for.

Private individuals in this country dare not expect to be treated with equally entitlement-granting kid gloves as these "Too Big Too Fail" corporate polluters and stockholders do.

Chemours, knowingly and forever, tainted the water supply of the southeastern portion of North Carolina. And generations to come will continue to suffer from their intentional negligence!

BEAT now also feels the federal government is complicit in these acts by allowing such criminally aggressive polluters off-the-hook despite a clear trail of malfeasance and deception.

North Carolina's citizens deserve better. We should be able to depend on our government for protection from corporations that harm the right of citizens to enjoy precious natural clean air, water and soil (our common heritage). Instead, they have set a dubious precedent for other like-minded profiteers to follow; make billions of dollars in profits over the years while poisoning our waters. "Why worry?" they may ask in their board meetings, "there will be no accountability for criminal corporate pollution of the water supply for millions of North Carolinians."

Warm Regards, Pete Key

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Round 2: Speaking to DAQ/DEQ in Columbus

County to Express Opposition to Permitting the

Use of the Highly Toxic Methyl Bromide Near a

School and Several Communities on May 15, 2018

The May 3rd meeting sponsored by the Division of Air Quality of the Department of Environmental Quality brought out so many local citizens who wanted to express their opposition to the local use of methyl bromide that a second meeting had to be scheduled. The second meeting occurred on Monday, May 15th and even more citizens attended!

The issue was a variance that an Australian company, Malec Brothers, had applied for to use the highly toxic compound, methyl bromide, in the fumigation of logs that were to be exported to China. The company's plan would have released into the air extraordinarily high levels of methyl bromide - a product banned in most countries in the early 2000s - near a middle school in Delco (just over the Brunswick County line in Columbus County ) and several nearby small communities. Both Morehead City and Wilmington rejected the idea, so the company turned to Columbus County.

Dr. Dwight Willis spoke at the May 3rd meeting and both Dan George and Marilyn Priddy spoke at the May 15th meeting, and like all of the local residents who spoke, were very eloquent in objecting to this permit.