A Prime Example of Environmental Racism in Prairie View, Texas near the PVAMU Campus

Written by on April 24, 2012 in Articles - No comments
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Some facts that shouldn’t be surprising since the same racist minded government officials tried this in Macon County near Tuskegee University and it didn’t work.

The same racist minded government officials did the same thing in Shell Bluff, Georgia and the residents came away with cancer. Read it for yourself.

“Some people did get jobs,” former Shell Bluff resident Annie Laura Stephens told theGrio, “but a lot of us got something else. We got cancer. I lost sisters, brothers and cousins to cancer, and every family I know has lost somebody to cancer.” Ms. Stephens’ complaint is echoed by many local residents.

Since the early 1980s, Burke County residents have experienced a veritable cancer epidemic. Located along what is already the fourth most toxic waterway in the nation, Shell Bluff is across the Savannah River from a former nuclear weapons manufacturing plant. Nearby Waynesboro residents rely on wells for bathing and drinking water, which makes them highly vulnerable to the radioactive contamination of local ground water.”

The Facts on the Landfill attempting to be placed near the Prestigious Prairie View A&M University Campus

Landfill will be 434 Acres

Landfill will be ONE MILE from Hempstead, Texas (69% global majority population)

Landfill will be FOUR MILES from PVAMU (94% global majority population)

Landfill runoff will pollute the the creek that feeds the Brazos River

Landfill will be on a recharge zone (Chico Aquifer) thus contaminating potable or drinking water for HEMPSTEAD, PVAMU AND WALLER COUNTY

What can I do to help?

Visit the protest site Stophwy6landfill.com

Visit the News site that broke the story at Click3Houston.com

Read another story with the same theme “Environmental Racism Finds Justice in Dickson, TN”

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