The Late Years Eleven

Let’s stop the poisoning of our water, our air and the Neuse River! Let’s hold Duke Energy accountable for the devastation they have done and continue to do to our community! This poisonous coal ash has caused cancer, heart conditions, respiratory conditions and so much other sickness and even death in our community. We must protect our families! Please join us!

From our friends in Goldsboro fighting against Duke Energy, advertising their next meeting of the Down East Coalition. They also are to have a "Star" processing plant, as are we here in Moncure. We worry about the Haw and the Cape Fear River. We already have had 7 million tons of coal ash dumped in our community. Now they want to poison the air with a Star processing plant that pollutes every time it is turned on or off.

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The Late Years Eleven January 13, 2019

The rain pours down. The mud from

earlier drenchings had finally dried,

but this is our year to get rain and more

rain. The rivers were still over their

banks. My dog hesitates, then plunges

into it. She accepts the towel when she

comes back in. For me it means

another day inside. Time to accept

what I can’t change. My age, too.

I debate how much I can reasonably 

do, what I need to postpone or cancel.

My days have their limits, and yet I

do still write and publish books. I still

fight our oppressors, Duke Energy

among them. The governor has failed

us. The state environmentalists ignore

our truth and deny our sufferings. We

still have voices, and we still own

the truth. None of our enemies take

it up. They pretend they can’t hear us.

They have their bag of tricks and never

tire of bringing them out. So they give

an unpublicized Open House instead of

a publicized open hearing. But truth

will out, and the death toll grows. Wear

your gas masks and wait. More flooding

will come and prove how wrong they are.

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