Enviro-Weenies Have A Fit Over Buc-ees Coming To Mebane, NC

Seriously, these wackos have had over a year to come up with their protest. They’ve been looking to get it going for that long, getting all the permits and approvals, but, now when it is actually happening?

Environmental activists voice concerns about plans to build Buc-ee’s in Mebane

Activists gathered in Mebane on Tuesday to speak out against Buc-ee’s planned near the intersection of Interstate 40 and 85. It that would be the gas station’s first location in North Carolina.

The popular, super-sized gas station and convenience store is set to be built on 34 acres along Trollingwood Hawfields Road. Construction could be complete by 2027.

On Tuesday, a group called the Seven Directions of Service and other speakers shared a new report about the environmental, economic and health impacts of the gas station.

“This is more than a story about a gas station,” Rania Masri, co-director of the NC Environmental Justice Network, said. “This is a story about public health [and] environmental justice.”

Multiple speakers voiced concern about toxic pollution from gas stations and idling cars putting neighboring parks, homes and schools at risk.

Have all these eco-zealots given up their own use of fossil fuels?

(IndyWeek) The gathering was pegged to the release of “Buc-ee’s Burden,” a 34-page report examining the health, environmental, and economic impacts of mega gas stations. The report was commissioned by the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network and the Indigenous-led environmental justice organization 7 Directions of Service and authored by local journalist Lewis Raven Wallace with contributions from Raleigh-based energy policy researcher Sue Sturgis.

“This report calls on all of us—residents, leaders, and policy makers—to protect our people, to say no to environmental racism, and to build a future that truly serves the public good instead of subsidizing corporate harm,” said Rania Masri, co-director of the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network.

Building a gas station with all the other stuff Buc-ees has is “environmental racism”? Wackos.

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