To friends and family in Randolph County

"Our water supply is at risk! The Greensboro-Randolph Megasite Foundation, Inc., is asking the Department of the Army for authorization to discharge dredged or fill material into waters of local creeks and ponds surrounding the Megasite. With few exceptions every stream within the Megasite footprint eventually drains into Deep River by way of Sandy Creek. In order to get from Sandy Creek to Deep River, all that water – and any pollutants it carries – must flow into and through Ramseur Lake, where every drop of water we use in Ramseur, and parts of Franklinville and Coleridge, comes from."

-Ramseur Watchdog

More BS Megasite Pitches

I sometimes wonder if the backers of the Guilford Randolph Megasite are perhaps paying local media to make up good news about the hopes for the megasite? Take for example this Fox8 story Greensboro-Randolph Megasite ideal for Toyota, Mazda plant, experts say by Carly Hildyard:

"FOX8 talked to several leaders with the project, who said they did not want to comment on a possible connection between the car companies and the megasite.

The team behind the megasite wants to transform the 1,500-acre property into a fully-fledged automobile manufacturing plant.

After Mazda and Toyota made their announcement, people who support the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite, say it could be the perfect fit."

Well of course these so-called "experts" don't want to be identified. As far as we know, Carly Hildyard could be making the whole thing up just to drum up support. Especially when you take into accounts from national media sources like the New York Daily News who writes in their article, Daily Drive-Thru: Toyota, Mazda partner for EVs; Volvo shares its engines; Hyundai announces Elantra GT pricing and more:

"Toyota announced today that it will join forces with fellow Japanese automaker and sometimes rival, Mazda, to build a $1.6 billion assembly plant somewhere in the U.S. focused exclusively on building electric vehicles.

As part of this alliance, the larger Toyota will take a 5 percent share of Mazda. The location of this plant has not yet been announced, but my guess is it will be somewhere in the south, perhaps near Toyota’s Kentucky-based operation. Mazda doesn’t have a U.S. assembly hub yet. At its peak, the plant will be expected to produce 300,000 vehicles a year and employ 4,000 people.
The two companies hope to begin operations at their new facility in 2021."

Mind you there are no heavy producers of Lithium batteries, electric motors, or copper wire anywhere near the proposed Greensboro-Randolph Megasite.

And what kinds of cars is Toyota currently producing in that Kentucky plant? From Wikipedia:

"The city's growth began in the mid-1980s, when Toyota built Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, its first wholly owned United States plant, in the city. The plant, which currently builds the Camry, Camry Hybrid, Venza, Avalon, and Lexus ES automobiles."

I added the bold text to the Camry Hybrid because hybrids require Lithium batteries and electric motors. Obviously there are some nearby Georgetown, Kentucky. These are heavy items that cost a lot to ship. You know, just like the steel we don't have.

You see, Folks, it works like this: the megasite builders invest no money of their own. The entire project is paid for with State and local tax dollars. But the megasite builders profit from the building of the site even if no one ever comes to fill the empty spaces.

Competition Increases For Greensboro-Randolph Megasite

The backers of this project plan to spend well over $20 Million Dollars of Greensboro taxpayer dollars and something in-between $120 and $200 Million in State Taxpayer Dollars.

For anyone thinking the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite is a good idea I give you this list from Site Selection Magazine, of available megasites across the USA. Might I also remind you that Site Selection Magazine is also owned by the same South Carolina developer who is currently doing the core drilling and surveying for the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite. They profit even if it fails: http://siteselection.com/issues/2016/jan/upload/1601SuperSitesChart.pdf

News From Randolph County

I got an e-mail today from folks who have connections with Randolph County Government that I thought folks here in Greensboro just might want to read:

"Billy,

Hope you are doing well.  The City water line to Randolph is getting more interesting. We learned on Monday that the line has grown from a 1.5 million gallon per day line to a 5.5 million gallon per day line. The proposed megasite project needs only 1 to 1.5 MGPD. If you hear anything about the plans for the "extra" 4 million gallons per day, let me know.

For context, according to City figures, Greensboro treated and pumped only 34 million gallons two days ago. So, if the 5.5 is true, the City intends to pump over 16% of what its citizens are using down to Randolph County. Could this be true? I thought we lived in a water poor area? Why did we pay for a Randleman Lake if we didn't really need it and were going to turn around and send a large part of that water back to the county it came from?"

My reply:

The Randalman Dam was never needed as evidenced by the work of Greensboro's award winning Water Conservation Director, Mike J Barron, who showed that area water usage dropped significantly between 1995 and 2010 and that actual water usage turned out to be half as much as was predicted. Mr Barron's work can be found at City of Greensboro water fraud: The Randleman Dam Scam

Now doesn't it seem strange to you that the City of Greensboro wants to pump almost 4 times as much water as the Megasite needs?

And doesn't it seem strange that water is going to be pumped over 60 miles to the megasite when it's only roughly 10 miles from the water treatment plant at the dam to the proposed Megasite near Liberty. There is a cost to pumping water you know, and it continues to go up year after year with every increase in the electric bill.

It makes no sense to Randolph County or to the Citizens of Southern Guilford County to be forced to buy Deep River water from the City of Greensboro when the cost would be less in the long run to buy from other communities closer by. Join your neighbors in Randolph County and fight this while you still can.

Pat McCrory, Phil Berger and Tim Moore use North Carolina taxpayer monies to fund speculative land aquistion

"The North Carolina Railroad Co. said this week that it will buy an additional 100 acres within the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite, becoming by far the dominant land owner.

...Of its 13-member board, the governor appoints seven while the speaker of the House and president pro tem of the Senate appoint three each...

Somebody is going to make a killing on this deal, 

the question is whom

...the purchase is in cooperation with the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite Foundation, an arm of the Greensboro-based Joseph M. Bryan Foundation.

...Although the railroad is technically a private company, the state owns all of its stock and state government has a powerful influence in its structure."

http://www.greensboro.com/gnr/n-c-railroad-co-to-buy-more-acres-in-megasite/article_f6740582-102c-507f-8c12-d1fa637a0030.html