Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 06:58:10 -0500
From: carole henry
Subject: a horse bearing gifts????
Karens post of the Times article was interesting. It brings to mind what will happen when the companies come in with their fracking chemicals that will be dumped into the NC communities for them to worry about. Will it be politics and $power as usual? Especially when they can do conventional drilling without the dumping of toxic waste.
Second all those miliions of gallons of NCs drinking water taken for each well and contaminated by these companies.
Tom post brought up a horse bearing gifts???? Was he taking about that old saying in rural areas which was …….LOOK a gift horse in the mouth……… Because that old saying meant that anyone GIVING a horse to you back then was suspect………looking in the mouth determines the age. A smooth mouth horse could not do the work that was required back then. A good horse was worth his weight in gold for their contribution to human life in rural life back then.
So that old saying does have merit in the case the rather large giftcoming to Chatham,.
I for one was one of the ones who moved here almost thirty years ago for what this area had to offer. No matter that I had to commute, it was worth it for the peace, quiet, rural environment it has to offer, plus at this time clean well water..
It takes rural areas and swamps and trees and marshes to filter out our human dumping of wastes that go into our drinking water. It is called the environment.
The area I moved from was considered rural at the time. My well water was clean and cleared tests until at the time I moved,, the local paper reported on a area contaminated by a business. My property was right in the middle! It was going to cost the home owner $5000.00 to connect to public water lines….HUH!! This was thirty years ago. The business that contaminated the water did not have to pay for the connections? Nope…….Now at the time I was making $10,000 a year. Figure that one out on how to pay for something caused by a business that did not take the precautions to prevent toxic waste from contaminating public water. Why should they, the public will pay for it.
C