Author Archives: Mary Edna

Great Pee Dee River protected from future coal plant

By Mary Edna | Published: April 12, 2011
Maria Gallucci’s April 5th Reuters article, In Quiet End to a Coal Battle, Utility Puts Canceled Plant Parts Up for Sale, demonstrates that the five year saga over constructing a coal plant on the Great Pee Dee River is clearly over.  Unfortunately, a sale might mean that this relic of technology gets erected in a […]
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Nile Delta Desert Islands: An Artist and A Scientist, Symbiotic Point of View

By Mary Edna | Published: March 28, 2011
The following article was featured by CoastalCare.org on March 20, 2011.  Cataloging the historic dialogue between Orrin Pilkey and Mary Edna Fraser, CoastalCare.org is presenting monthly expositions written by Celie Dailey based on their collaborative text, A Celebration of Barrier Islands, Duke University Press, 2003. Nile Delta Desert Islands: An Artist and A Scientist, Symbiotic […]
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Rising to the sea’s challenge

By Mary Edna | Published: March 2, 2011
Orrin Pilkey’s op-ed article, Rising to the sea’s challenge, was featured on newsobserver.com on March 1, 2011. To its everlasting credit, the state Division of Coastal Management (DCM) is trying to institute new development policies along our shoreline that recognize sea level rise. It is a splendid display of bureaucratic courage and foresight. The basic […]
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