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The Coastal Conservation League has spoken out against many projects and proposals, such as offshore drilling, building homes on Captain Sams Spit and developing a gated golf community on St. Helena Island, in the name of protecting endangered wildlife, preserving the beauty and character of our coastline and mitigating flood risk.
Or in the name of adding cost and delays to the critical and necessary work of covering every square inch of the Lowcountry with highways and condominiums, if that’s the chosen point of view.
BRUCE CAMPBELL
Daniel Island
No crypto mining
A recent letter to the editor in which the writer said that cryptocurrency should be embraced in South Carolina made me chuckle. I believe crypto is just a scheme. Its value depends on supply and demand to support the value of bitcoins already in circulation. One can’t actually use it in normal commerce. Who wants a currency whose value can rise and fall dramatically by the week? Only the Vegas crowd.
And these mining centers are environmental disasters. They require huge volumes of water to cool, eat prodigious amounts of energy and emit mechanical noises that drive neighbors crazy — and create very few jobs.
I would implore S.C. legislators to keep these facilities out of South Carolina. Focus on businesses that bring real jobs to South Carolina, and listen to residents who live in areas where these cypto mining plants have already been built.
DAVID HOFFMAN
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