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Moore County residents worry about solar’s long-term environmental impacts

Julie Morgan saw the environmental hazard in her Moore County hometown created by yesteryear’s textile mill technology, and she saw the industrial materials that supported it. She hopes the contaminated remnants of the crumbled Robbins Silk Mill lead to preventive studies on what advocates hail as an industry of tomorrow — the solar installation boom....

Dan Way
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Developer Sues Greensboro, Saying Stiffed Him on Grant

GREENSBORO — In the lawsuit, developer Eric Robert claims Greensboro “has breached the contracts it entered into to fund the South Elm Street Redevelopment by failing and refusing to provide any funds for the remediation or renovation of the Mill, proximately causing Mr. Robert and QUB to suffer actual, special incidental and consequential damage. …” The suit also cites a March 11, 2012 meeting with Mayor Robbie Perkins and interim City Manager Denise Turner Roth in which they “represented to Mr. Robert that funds [would be paid] in late 2013.”

Sam A. Hieb

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