For the past year, I’ve been railing against the efforts to allow Alabama-based Twin Pines permits to drag mine 582 acres of wetlands it owns adjacent to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge for titanium dioxide. Why titanium dioxide? It is an essential ingredient in toothpaste whitener. Toothpaste whitener? Our state leaders are considering what could be permanent damage to one of our treasured natural resources for toothpaste whitener? So far, I haven’t had much success in pushing this bad idea off the cliff, but I am still trying. You can, too.
Write or email Gov. Brian Kemp and tell him to order the state Environmental Protection Division not to issue the permits and leave our Okefenokee alone.
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