Silfab is bringing clean energy jobs and a $150 million investment to Fort Mill—a win for the local economy and the environment . The USC report, commissioned by CAGI and Andy Lytle, is based on exaggerated worst-case scenarios that ignore Silfab’s safety systems and containment measures . Greg Basden rightly points out that the report assumes flat, rural terrain, not the actual urban setting, and overlooks the facility’s robust safety protocols . This fearmongering, led by Lytle, Halford, and Buchanan, seems more about obstruction than genuine concern . Let’s support innovation and progress, not baseless opposition .
Show me another company that has 50,000+ lbs of level 3 toxic chemicals that can cause irritation of eyes, nose throat, cessation of breathing and explosions, has its own wastewater treatment plant on-site less than 0.25 miles of two schools.
Oil refineries and rocket companies have safety systems as well, but you don’t see those operations near vulnerable communities areas. Safety systems do fail and/or malfunction. Is the inherent risk to health and safety worth it?
Where is your York County letter telling you can operate in a light industrial zone and who signed it?
Where is your zoning verification letter?
Show me your air permit and your RMP. Do they both use rural or do they both use urban or did you use whichever suited your needs / gave you favorable results?
How is an independent/ third party report biased when they used Silfabs own inputs from the permit application, which is public record.
Silfab, in one of the most divisive times in our country’s history has truly united our community to move you out of Fort Mill. We aren’t against solar or innovation or jobs, we are for companies that don’t circumvent the law and due process and backdoor their way into getting what they want.
Take a drive around the Gulf coast of Texas, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, East Chicago, Batton Rouge, etc and then tell me Oil Refineries don’t operate near vulnerable communities. MUCH of the US oil refining capacity is in heavily populated areas.
Rocket companies are absolutely in the middle of nowhere like Northrop Grumman in Corinne, UT.
I don’t like Silfab either but stick to actual facts.
Stick to facts: Page 7 of the SC DES 23 page response to citizen concerns on the DES-Silfab website states: “Approximately 23% of the 3 km area surrounding the facility was shown to have urban-type characteristics as identified by GIS technology. In this case, the model should is rural dispersion coefficients per guidelines.”
The regulator used rural per guidelines. USC professors used rural per guidelines. Silfab used urban, against guidelines.
There are hundreds of concerned parents that the 3 gentlemen you noted are standing up for. They are courageous for fighting for us and our kids. The idea that parents’ concerns for the health and safety of their own children isn’t genuine is wild. Technological innovation is great, but we’ve all experienced technology fail. The community along with an empowered board of appeals have said no to this unacceptable risk.
Stick to facts: Page 7 of the SC DES 23 page response to citizen concerns on the DES-Silfab website states: “Approximately 23% of the 3 km area surrounding the facility was shown to have urban-type characteristics as identified by GIS technology. In this case, the model should is rural dispersion coefficients per guidelines.”
The regulator used rural per guidelines. USC professors used rural per guidelines. Silfab used urban, against guidelines.
There are hundreds of concerned parents that the 3 gentlemen you noted are standing up for. They are courageous for fighting for us and our kids. The idea that parents’ concerns for the health and safety of their own children isn’t genuine is wild. Technological innovation is great, but we’ve all experienced technology fail. The community along with an empowered board of appeals have said no to this unacceptable risk.
We do have the facts. Silfab is using chemicals that are explosive and toxic in an area zoned for light industry use. You are not a light manufacturing company. Find an area that is properly zoned for your type of heavy industrial manufacturing. MOVE SILFAB!
Thank you Dylan Nolan for following and reporting this situation.
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Silfab is bringing clean energy jobs and a $150 million investment to Fort Mill—a win for the local economy and the environment . The USC report, commissioned by CAGI and Andy Lytle, is based on exaggerated worst-case scenarios that ignore Silfab’s safety systems and containment measures . Greg Basden rightly points out that the report assumes flat, rural terrain, not the actual urban setting, and overlooks the facility’s robust safety protocols . This fearmongering, led by Lytle, Halford, and Buchanan, seems more about obstruction than genuine concern . Let’s support innovation and progress, not baseless opposition .
Baseless opposition?
Show me another company that has 50,000+ lbs of level 3 toxic chemicals that can cause irritation of eyes, nose throat, cessation of breathing and explosions, has its own wastewater treatment plant on-site less than 0.25 miles of two schools.
Oil refineries and rocket companies have safety systems as well, but you don’t see those operations near vulnerable communities areas. Safety systems do fail and/or malfunction. Is the inherent risk to health and safety worth it?
Where is your York County letter telling you can operate in a light industrial zone and who signed it?
Where is your zoning verification letter?
Show me your air permit and your RMP. Do they both use rural or do they both use urban or did you use whichever suited your needs / gave you favorable results?
How is an independent/ third party report biased when they used Silfabs own inputs from the permit application, which is public record.
Silfab, in one of the most divisive times in our country’s history has truly united our community to move you out of Fort Mill. We aren’t against solar or innovation or jobs, we are for companies that don’t circumvent the law and due process and backdoor their way into getting what they want.
Your point about oil refineries is unfounded.
Take a drive around the Gulf coast of Texas, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, East Chicago, Batton Rouge, etc and then tell me Oil Refineries don’t operate near vulnerable communities. MUCH of the US oil refining capacity is in heavily populated areas.
Rocket companies are absolutely in the middle of nowhere like Northrop Grumman in Corinne, UT.
I don’t like Silfab either but stick to actual facts.
Stick to facts: Page 7 of the SC DES 23 page response to citizen concerns on the DES-Silfab website states: “Approximately 23% of the 3 km area surrounding the facility was shown to have urban-type characteristics as identified by GIS technology. In this case, the model should is rural dispersion coefficients per guidelines.”
The regulator used rural per guidelines. USC professors used rural per guidelines. Silfab used urban, against guidelines.
There are hundreds of concerned parents that the 3 gentlemen you noted are standing up for. They are courageous for fighting for us and our kids. The idea that parents’ concerns for the health and safety of their own children isn’t genuine is wild. Technological innovation is great, but we’ve all experienced technology fail. The community along with an empowered board of appeals have said no to this unacceptable risk.
Move Silfab.
Stick to facts: Page 7 of the SC DES 23 page response to citizen concerns on the DES-Silfab website states: “Approximately 23% of the 3 km area surrounding the facility was shown to have urban-type characteristics as identified by GIS technology. In this case, the model should is rural dispersion coefficients per guidelines.”
The regulator used rural per guidelines. USC professors used rural per guidelines. Silfab used urban, against guidelines.
There are hundreds of concerned parents that the 3 gentlemen you noted are standing up for. They are courageous for fighting for us and our kids. The idea that parents’ concerns for the health and safety of their own children isn’t genuine is wild. Technological innovation is great, but we’ve all experienced technology fail. The community along with an empowered board of appeals have said no to this unacceptable risk.
Move Silfab.
We do have the facts. Silfab is using chemicals that are explosive and toxic in an area zoned for light industry use. You are not a light manufacturing company. Find an area that is properly zoned for your type of heavy industrial manufacturing. MOVE SILFAB!
Thank you Dylan Nolan for following and reporting this situation.