Wal-mart wants to build next to Wildlife Refuge, claims they'd help it!!

[LynneSin]

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/13689386.htm?source=yahoodist&content=phi_news

Wal-Mart plan roils Pennsville

Foes want to protect a refuge. The chain says a new Supercenter would help.

PENNSVILLE, N.J. - Like so much land in this mostly rural part of Salem County, the old Sinnickson farm is teetering between preservation and development.

Bordering the Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, the 79-acre property - a ribbon of salt marsh, meadows and fallow fields - is eyed for development as a Wal-Mart Supercenter. A smaller Wal-Mart is less than a half-mile away in Pennsville.

Environmentalists contend the 222,000-square-foot superstore and its 1,400 parking spaces would make a poor neighbor for a wildlife refuge.

Officials for Wal-Mart, which has launched a public-relations campaign promising to "conserve at least one parcel of priority wildlife habitat for every parcel developed" in the next 10 years, said the entire site would not be developed, but it did not offer more specific plans.

The vast grasslands of the Sinnickson property, at Route 49 and Lighthouse Road, sit at the headwaters of Mill Creek, which experts consider one of New Jersey's most ecologically sensitive migratory bird habitats.

[Hubert Flottz]

1. They will be selling deerburgers and trout sandwiches!

They only want it all! Now is that too much to ask for?

[LynneSin]

2. what disgusts me is there is already a Wal-Mart half a mile away

and probably at least 5 more in a 30-mile radius (including two right over the bridge here in Delaware)

How lazy do they want to make us Americans that they don't think we would drive more than 5 minutes to shop at their store? I mean my closest Target store (the only place I'd consider shopping at if I needed to go discount department store) is 10 miles away (only 2 miles for a Wal-Mart) but I'll drive that far to get there.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. They want to shove every other company out of the picture.

They are like the neocons, they want it all and like the neocons they could care less who pays, as long as it's not them.

[zbdent]

4. Yes, those seagulls need yet another massive parking lot

to hang around in . . . "wildlife refuge" . . .

[ComerPerro]

5. That is one of the worst things about WalMart, they

have this habit of opening new supercenters in towns where they already have a store. And they build completely new buildings for them. So they waste more land, create more sprawl, and in the end the building they left is usually empty for quite a while.