We have acquired an e-mail concerning a “Coal ash cancer cluster meeting for realtors”, that was held in Mooresville, NC, Jan. 2020.
Commissioner Lisa Qualls, who is also a mortgage broker for Movement Mortgage, sent this email to Senator Vickie Sawyer, Representative John Fraley, Mayor Miles Atkins, and Brady Freeman.
Lisa wanted to have an info session for realtors, on what she calls mis-information regarding coal ash and cancer.
“The goal of this meeting is to help dispel rumors that are starting to impact out of town buyers, and creating angst among sellers.
We do not need any negative impact on our area for many reasons”.
The rumors Lisa wanted to dispel, is the fact that toxins within coal ash can cause cancers. The fact that parts of Mooresville were built on toxic coal ash.
The negative impact, would be home buyers finding out that our children are dying from cancers.
Mooresville has a problem. Just North of town, sits 35 million tons of coal ash, at the Marshall Steam Station. Marshall is one of fourteen coal fired plants in NC that are under order of partial cleanup, because of groundwater contamination.
Duke Energy also sold their coal ash to be recycled as dirt, for structural fills. Mooresville has the most known coal ash structural fills in NC. Many of these sites are now contaminated.
For example, there is almost half a million tons of coal ash under the local Lowes and Hobby Lobby. The Hobby Lobby side is now an EPA Superfund site, because toxins have gotten into the groundwater.
Right up the road at the Tire Masters, a 30 foot coal ash sinkhole has been sitting open in the parking lot, for three years. Toxins are now in the nearby creek.
Beside the local high school, coal ash was found the coming out of the ground. Many students and staff have went on develop cancers.
The Northern section of Lake Norman has high rates of thyroid cancer. The Southern section has a rare eye cancer cluster. There is also a lot of testicular, colon, breast, brain, and blood cancers on the lake.
This is the ad for the Coal Ash Cancer Cluster Meeting for Realtors.
Update with facts. Not fake news.
There were no scientist at this meeting. Only politicians. Mortgage brokers. Insurance agents.
This was the last meeting held on the coal ash cancer clusters.
This meeting was one of my first protest. My son was still alive then. He was in remission at the time, after a year of surgeries and chemo.
I marched for hours, in front of the Charles Mack Center, in Mooresville. A few people spoke, most ignored me. Senator Sawyer and the Mayor walked past me into the meeting, without a word. The Senator knew my son had cancer, because we had spoken at the previous cancer meeting, six months earlier.
I tried to get into their meeting, but was turned away at the door. The meeting was quite full, but they were letting people in as others left. Not me, though. Not the actual victims.
As of this writing, this was the last meeting of any type in Mooresville, on coal ash or the high cancer rates.
