Boseman takes step to block Titan plant

how everyone is concerned about titan but noone is a bit concerned about your power plant that burns more coal then anyone else in the area. The country is in the state it is in now because folks cannot do their own research and make their own determinations on issues but follow misinformation like it is the gospel.

I think we have a FANTASATIC resource in Julia Boseman and the anti-Titan folks. Since they OBVIOUSLY are much better informed than the EPA and the NCDHNR, we can abolish those know-nothing, do-nothing agencies and save countless billions of dollars fro the federal and state budgets. I've discovered how to balance the budget!!! Thanks, Julia!

I applaud Julia Boseman for taking a stand to protect our precious environment. We need more political leaders that can have a backbone to stand up for what is right instead of thinking about who can make money now. The other plants that line Hwy421 have been slowly polluting our environment for years. My dad retired from a plant on 421 & years ago it produced asbestos which many of its former employees have died from asbestos exposure & my dad has been diagnosed with lung disease from the exposure-never smoked, rarely drank, worked, provided for his family & didn't hang out at bars. Knowing about this now doesn't make his 30yrs at this plant worth it. We don't have the plentiful resources available in our country to investigate properly to make sure they have our best interests at heart. So Julia you keep working to protect our environment & our health because the alternative is more costly in the long run. I want to see more environmentally sound companies doing business in our area which will be better for us in the long run & healthier. Also I see "Help Wanted" signs everyday in this county but very few want to accept a job earning less than $25k annually with little to no benefits-they'd rather file for bankruptcy. I know I work for a bankruptcy attorney-a large majority of the folks who file through our office come from the the high dollar homes/cars/jewels/major credit debt, etc, people just trying to hang on to stuff.

Have any of you ever set foot on the old existing Ideal Concrete site that Titan plans to clean-up and then build on? Because if you had, you would see that all of your concerns you are worried about is already there on the site except JOBS!! You run Titan off, then we, the tax payers, will have to clean-up that nasty mess and loose the high paying jobs and added tax base we so badly need...........

Julia Boseman,how do you think your house or houses were built? NOT without concrete!! Not to mention how many jobs this will create in the area.Our concrete would not have to be purchased from overseas,which drives the cost of concrete up,in turn drives the cost of anything else requiring concrete up!!

I applaud Senator Boseman's courage and conviction in introducing this legislation, and hope that it is successful. I wish those writing comments would stop the name calling and become educated on this issue. Are you really willing to put the health of our citizens at risk for a small amount of low paying jobs? Yes, the unemployment rate is high; and yes, we are in a difficult place, but we will come out of this a stronger and better people. Titan and the local business people who support this project, do NOT have our best interest a heart. They are thinking with their own pocket books and private interests.

It's not just Boseman against industry growth in NC, governor Perdue is also in the same court. At a time when our unemployment has topped 10%, these leftists are doing all they can to work against better paying jobs in the state. It's not just the education field, girls. What good is any education if there is no work?

This move makes no economic sense whatsoever. The increased costs alone is construction projects due to having no local sources for cement will be staggering. If this plant satisfies the EPA standards, then it should be allowed. I thought Ms. Boseman was elected to benefit the community. Does she not consider additional jobs in a county with a 10% unemployment rate a benefit?

The right to work state soon to be reclassified the" NO WORK STATE " Maybe we can all greet those precious tourists with a tin cup!!! Wouldn't you think serving the general public would be special?

Go Julia! North Carolina needs more jobs that support that support our existing infrastructure instead of polluting and ruining our environment.

I have blog on this a couple of times about this same topic. I am shock that this still a issue. Show me the facts. Show me where these other plants are and what impact they have had on their community. Have there been any fact shown where they are not good for the community. The EPA, OSHA, Air Quailty Control, Permits, Where is on record that there is a problem. This company was invite and done everything they can to prove they are good. I don't think Boseman is any position to judge. We have got to have jobs back. Why can't anybody see this. Go on 421 any given day and look at the plants out there and then come on here and tell me there isn't problems with the enviroment. If you need examples, D.H.Griffin, (air), Horton, GE, Waste Industries, why isn't some one check the records on these companies. GET THE FACT JULIA AND ALL THE OTHERS DO GOODERS out there then take up TV and news paper time up. With the facts. Not just say they are " bad for the enviroment."

I think its pretty funny how all the liberal environmental nutt jobs out there all say NO TO TITAN, a company that could bring a lot of jobs here but yet turn around and blame Bush and all the republicans for there not being any jobs!!!! Let them buld titan, ship all the illegal immigrants back to their own country then we will have jobs. Its not that hard to understand that concept. Illegals keep comming in and snatching up jobs because they will work for a heck of a lot cheaper so business's want them.

Another KNEE JERK reaction from the leftist loons...By the time we get a chance to correct the countries HUGE mistake...there won't be jobs left!

BASF shutting down, Georgia-Pacific closing, NC unemployment over 10% and now Boseman is trying to axe any new jobs for the area. Forget about the small environmental impacts of the plant and help make new jobs so that we dont lose our homes. Argh!

It's a smoke screen.....she probably has a counter bill in the wings just like her anti-annexation, pro-annexation bills. Methinks this snake definitely has a forked tongue