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What Others Are Saying
The High Point Enterprise
April 16, 2008
Our View: Alcoa permit gets input by governor
What these Stanly County folks basically are proposing is public seizure of private property ... or either the taxpayers of North Carolina paying a lot of money to buy Alcoa`s property… We`ve got to be talking hundreds of millions of dollars, at least, that the state would have to find to buy Alcoa’s property - or have some kind of communistic takeover. Neither one of those options makes any sense.
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The Stanly News & Press
April 15, 2008
Letter to the Editor: County’s efforts send wrong message to potential businesses.
I’m concerned that the Stanly County commissioners are being short-sighted and misguided with their last-ditch attempts to deny Alcoa a new license for its dams on the Yadkin River.
To suggest that a government-run operation will be more beneficial to Stanly County than a private enterprise demonstrates that county officials don’t understand the negative impact such a move would have on businesses in our community. Read more.
The Salisbury Post
April 8, 2008
Editorial: Don't create a dam mess
On the face of it, there's a superficial plausibility to Stanly County's argument that the Yadkin River is a state resource, ultimately owned by the people of North Carolina, and hence the state, rather than Alcoa, should be the proprietor of the string of power-generating dams along the river now that they no longer power local smelting operations.
Until, that is, you think of the larger, longterm implications. Look at the condition of many of our roads and bridges and then ask yourself: Do you really want the state of North Carolina taking over maintenance and oversight of Alcoa's four dams on the Yadkin — or, by extension, Duke Energy's empoundments on the Catawba? With its mental health quagmire, transportation deficits and parole system debacles, the state doesn't need any new streams of turmoil and strife. Read more.
The Stanly News & Press
April 10, 2008
Letter to the Editor: Let Alcoa use the water
“…the biggest detriment to the Yadkin River is communities piping water out of the river and selling it to other cities in the Catawba river basin…” Read more.
TalkingAboutPolitics.com Blog
April 8, 2008
The Art of the Grab
“… a local banker and a Stanly County Commissioner have come up with a political grab that makes government funding of the Randy Parton Theatre look like a small-time sideshow.” Read more.
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