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Hog Farm Fine Will Go To Protecting Land

WUNC | By Gurnal Scott
Published July 26, 2012 at 6:00 AM EDT

The U.S. Attorney's Office is using a hog farm company's violation to send a message on protecting the environment.

Gurnal Scott: The admission by Columbus County-based Freedman Farms to dumping hog waste in a offshoot of the Waccamaw River in 2007 is costing the company dearly, to the tune of a million and a half dollars.

Thomas Walker: We think that this amount of money going back in to help the people of this district is something that's worth celebrating.

Thomas Walker, U.S. Attorney for North Carolina's Eastern District, adds that this is one of several prosecutions aimed at protecting the environment. The state's Coastal Land Trust will benefit most from Freedman Farms' penalty. Executive Director Camilla Herlevich.

Camilla Herlevich: We hope that the conservation work that will begin with this restitution award will serve as a catalyst ant that we can direct even more resources to this special place.

Freedman farms is still in business, but its president will serve prison time and house arrest for the company's actions.
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Gurnal Scott
Gurnal Scott joined North Carolina Public Radio in March 2012 after several stops in radio and television. After graduating from the College of Charleston in his South Carolina hometown, he began his career in radio there. He started as a sports reporter at News/Talk Radio WTMA and won five Sportscaster of the Year awards. In 1997, Gurnal moved on to television as general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for WCSC-TV in Charleston. He anchored the market's top-rated weekend newscasts until leaving Charleston for Memphis, TN in 2002. Gurnal worked at WPTY-TV for two years before returning to his roots in radio. He joined the staff of Memphis' NewsRadio 600 WREC in 2004 eventually rising to News Director. In 2006, Raleigh news radio station WPTF came calling and he became the station's chief correspondent. Gurnal’s reporting has been honored by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association, the North Carolina Associated Press, and the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas.
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