Yes, the Farm will provide many more good paying jobs than some intermodal terminal that would be a draw to other transportation, manufacturing and wholesale facilities in someone's dream.
You are the one who brought up the Grand Ole Opry as if it were in some way connected to anything, I was just pointing out the stupidity of that point.
Trucks move CCR, trains move CCR and NEITHER have ANY connection to where the CCR goes. They are contracted to haul it by those who own it and it is taken to sites where THE GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES have ALREADY PERMITTED the storage of CCR. Your ignorant attempts to connect CSX to the problem and ignore trucks, which haul more because the trains do not go directly from the site of current storage to the new storage site. You claimed the CSX spur had some connection to the Jessup situation when NO SPUR HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED at this time. Does CSX have some type of time machine or is that as close as you can get to the truth?
Every city and town including Nashville, TN makes decisions concerning what it wants to be known for. If I say the word "Nashville" to someone, everybody knows that "Nashville" means "country music", not cupcakes. Johnston County has the opportunity to mean something more than just a rural place where coal ash and industrial waste is dumped by CSX.
I think readers can plainly see how coal ash is transported across North Carolina on rail cars, and CSX does have a role in the transportation of coal ash to private, rural North Carolina dumps. They provide interim transportation of coal ash from the power plants to the coal ash dump sites.
136 million tons of coal ash annually (2008 figures) do not travel by truck transportation alone. And if you look at the prior pages of posts, you will clearly see that CSX advertises their services in coal ash transport.
Comparing a city to a county is by definition an apples to oranges comparison just like your attempt to connect coal ash to the intermodal facility .... there is no connection.
Show me where the trains connect directly to the landfill and the previous storage sites or explain how the CCR is teleported to the train.
No, that is not true if you had actually read the article in the link dated July of this year ..... if they do not have the rail spur how was it connected to any of the problems you claim it to be a direct cause? "The Landfill does not presently operate a rail spur. Broadhurst is, however, responsibly preparing in anticipation of the full implementation of new federal regulations affecting coal ash disposal."
Yet the newspaper article dater July of this year clearly says that there has been no spur built. Does CSX have some type of time machine that can allow it to have such a huge impact before anything is ever built? How can that be? The only logical explanation is that your claim is not based on any factual evidence, especially given that you have not provided any.
One aspect which can be readily quantified is the fact CSX was willing to take relatively undeveloped land and develop it into a very expensive facility. This would mean a significant increase in the property tax base for that 500 acres over the years. Even with an initial break in the taxes the long term benefit would have been good for any county to see at least a 150 times increase in the value of that land.
Do us all a favor and if you're going to post pictures at least have the common sense to resize them.
It has economic benefit, sure. But comparable to the number of jobs CSX would have brought? Not likely. Many of the jobs you listed that are supported by venues like these are part time jobs, or second jobs.
Right here is where you admit your ignorance to this project, entirely. The Johnston County CSX project was an intermodal site, which means container cars from ports to rail to truck or vice versa. It is not a dump for coal ash nor would it facilitate the dumping of coal ash.
