Pig Crap Delivered To North Carolina Governor Mike Easley’s Office By Protesters After Governor Broke Promise
RALEIGH, N.C. - Eastern North Carolina residents unhappy to be living near hog lagoons gave Gov. Mike Easley what’s inside those pits.
Members of environmental groups dropped off what they said was a gallon of hog waste at Easley’s office Thursday. Lower Neuse Riverkeeper Larry Baldwin says they left the jug there after they couldn’t get an answer at the Executive Mansion.
The groups wrapped up a two-day vigil in Raleigh. They say Easley broke his promise to eliminate lagoons within five years. They also argue there’s a loophole in a 2007 law designed to phase out the open pits.
Easley policy director Alan Hirsch says the governor has done his best to make the industry as clean as possible. He says technology to replace those lagoons has taken longer to develop.
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