. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Three towns, two ways of looking at a coal pile Some say the face of Carteret County is black with coal dust. Others see no coal dust there at all. By a similar quirk of optics, the mound of coal rising at the State Port coal terminal shows two different shapes to people watching it from win- dows in Beaufort, Morehead City and Atlantic Beach: Some see a mountain of prosperity; others, a heap of bad news. "I can see that coal pile from my house, and that's not the view I came here for," says Geor
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Three towns, two ways of looking at a coal pile Some say the face of Carteret County is black with coal dust. Others see no coal dust there at all. By a similar quirk of optics, the mound of coal rising at the State Port coal terminal shows two different shapes to people watching it from win- dows in Beaufort, Morehead City and Atlantic Beach: Some see a mountain of prosperity; others, a heap of bad news. "I can see that coal pile from my house, and that's not the view I came here for," says George Hammond, an Atlantic Beach resident. "I don't like the noise, the harassment of the trains, and the dust in the air. And, I don't like knowing that I might need to get to a hospital some day when a coal train is blocking all the ; Hammond is a retired engineer who spends much of his time these days working with Carteret County Crossroads, a group campaigning against the development of coal ter- minals in the county. Hammond says the group's 300 members plan to press the state to prepare thorough environ- mental impact statements, not only for terminals proposed for Radio Island, near Beaufort, but also for the opera- tion already under way at the State Port in Morehead City. Hammond says that his group is angry because coal came rolling into the community over their objections and without, he says, enough study beforehand. The group cites a Photo by Bill Ray, Winston-Salem Journal previously untested law, section 143B- 437 of the state's General Statutes, which states that "the Department of Commerce shall conduct an evalua- tion, in conjunction with the Depart- ment of Natural Resources and Com- munity Development, of the effects on the state's natural and economic en- vironment of any new or expanding in- dustry or manufacturing plant locating in North ; But Clint Abernathy, assistant secretary of Commerce, says that the law was satis
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