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<PREFIX>Mr.</PREFIX>
<FIRST>James</FIRST>
<MIDDLE>Keith</MIDDLE>
<LAST>Williamson</LAST>
<SUFFIX>Williamson</SUFFIX>
<TITLE>Journalist</TITLE>
<ORGANIZATION>Columbia University</ORGANIZATION>
<ADDR1>615 W186 ST.</ADDR1>
<ADDR2>APT1H</ADDR2>
<CITY>NEW YORK</CITY>
<STATE>NY</STATE>
<ZIP>10033</ZIP>
<EMAIL>james.kswilliamson@gmail.com</EMAIL>
<PHONE_H>843-639-7534</PHONE_H>
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<ISSUE>ENVI</ISSUE>
<SUBJECT>Letter from Williamson, a Concerned South Carolinian</SUBJECT>
<CUSTOM1>209.2.223.80</CUSTOM1>
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Dear Governor Nikki Haley, 

Going through emails, I stumbled on one about the continued efforts to develop offshore drilling of our Carolina coast. I'm currently a masters candidate at Columbia University School of Journalism. I write to you out of my very hectic and busy schedule, so I hope and cross my fingers that you'd be able to skim over this despite your busy schedule, or at least hear about it from someone on staff. If so, I'll be impressed. 

I am originally from Hartsville with family roots in Darlington and Pawleys Island and Georgetown. I was a reporter for the Coastal Observer at Pawleys, a small weekly you might know. That said, this notion of drilling off of Georgetown used to float around the newsroom. It was a joke. But why is this even something discussed now, two years later? I trust you know it will hack our coast, leaving irreparable damages. It is in your best interest, to your legacy and conscious, to stand up for us and against this discussion in whatever way you can. 

I once spoke for the Coastal Conservation League at a hearing held by Santee Cooper's Board of Directors in 2009. They wanted to build a multi-billion dollar production plant next to the Pee Dee River. I looked down the table of board members with one primary focus, one core issue: If you are from South Carolina, you will not support the interests of those willing to damage our state. If you consider yourself a South Carolinian, you will protect our natural environment, you will defy interests harming what little we have because we don't have much. Exploiting our limited and valuable ecosystems shames our people, our small-time industries, and our Southern contemporaries. Oil off our coast is an incredibly regressive idea. Again, I'm going to trust that you know this. 

That's all I really have to say. The list could go on. Time is limited for everyone and I write to you concerned. 

Regards, 

James K. Williamson 

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