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30 speak, largely worried about mercury at Lafarge

May 12, 2010 12:56 am
From Brian Nearing in The Albany Times-Union:
Several hundred people turned out for a hearing Tuesday on the proposed state air pollution permit for the Lafarge cement plant, and nearly all gave the same message -- the state must do more to limit the amount of mercury and other toxins coming from the smokestack. "I think we are splitting hairs here over just how much they are poisoning us," said Leigh Jamison, who lives about seven miles downwind of the Route 9W plant in Stuyvesant, Columbia County. Nearly 30 people spoke during the three-hour hearing held across from the plant at Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Read the entire story in the Times-Union.
WGXC's Sam Sebren was at the hearing, and made a recording we will upload on Wednesday.
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