{"id":9942,"date":"2014-08-28T12:06:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=9942"},"modified":"2014-08-28T14:07:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T18:07:44","slug":"dupont-withdraws-mine-permit-application-after-citizen-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/dupont-withdraws-mine-permit-application-after-citizen-opposition.html","title":{"rendered":"DuPont withdraws mine permit application after citizen opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nAfter only a few weeks of organized opposition by citizens,\r\nincluding Satilla Riverkeeper and activists from as far away as Waycross,\r\nmighty DuPont has had to think again about mining Wayne County near Jesup.\r\nNot given up, but at least not just breezing through unnoticed.\r\n

\r\nUpdate 2014-08-28 14:00:<\/strong> Greenlaw Press Release<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nTerry Dickson wrote for jacksonville.com 27 August 2014,\r\n\r\nDuPont withdraws application for permit to mine more than 2,200 acres in Wayne County<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\nDuPont has withdrawn its application for a permit to mine 2,254\r\nacres near Jesup, Ga., until it can address “various points”\r\nraised by Wayne County residents at recent meetings, the company\r\nsaid Wednesday.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“We’re going to hit the pause button and start over,” company\r\nspokeswoman Tara Stewart said. “We want to take time and\r\nlisten to the community. We want to do this right.”…\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nDuPont wants to mine 4,063 acres “for titanium oxide, zircon, and other minerals”.\r\n

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\r\nEnvironmentalists and local residents asserted that DuPont’s\r\nproposed method of excavating 25 to 50 feet deep would affect\r\ndrinking water wells and that the dust and truck traffic from the\r\noperation would hurt property values and the quality of life.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nDuPont planned to separate the mineral sands from the rest and then\r\ntruck that to its facility in Starke for final processing.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nWell, maybe they won’t do that once more people realize the\r\nproblems such mining in a sensitive watershed could cause.\r\n

\r\nMeanwhile, citizens have demonstrated that activism works,\r\neven with $60 billion market cap DuPont.\r\n

\r\nHere’s some of what the citizens did,\r\naccording to\r\nDerby Waters for the Press-Sentinel of Jesup 22 August 2014,\r\n\r\nCrowd hears more of DuPont’s mining plans<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\nA standing-room-only crowd of some 300 local residents filled the\r\nmain building at Cracker Williams Recreation Center Tuesday night to\r\ndiscuss plans by the DuPont corporation to mine in Wayne County.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nHeavy attendance at meetings of the county commissioners and a push\r\nfor a local zoning ordinance are expected to follow this first\r\nmeeting called by the Concerned Neighbors of Wayne County.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nConcerned residents in the area of the proposed mines, elected\r\nofficials, the environmental savvy and the just-interested listened\r\nto speakers discuss what DuPont’s permit request to the Department\r\nof Natural Resources (DNR) may mean for the county.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nThese are all tactics that could work with many other threats\r\nto our local environment, such as that Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline.\r\n

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