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PORTSMOUTH
Hundreds of residents showed up Tuesday unceasingly with an unequivocal message for the Virginia Port Authority: A sulfur melting works is not welcome in the city.
The outpouring of angst and outrage came unprejudiced one week after the public learned the state-run Port Authority was talking with a house about building a sulfur melting operation near several neighborhoods on the Elizabeth River at the Portsmouth Seagoing Terminal.
City Council members agreed and said they would out of date a resolution opposing the idea and ask Norfolk officials to join them.
"You've told us what you scarcity, so we'll support you," Councilman Paige Cherrytold the crowd to clapping.
The turnout against the project materialized at a council-led community meeting held twice a year that often draws only a few dozen residents, if that many.
This ever, some 350 people came, and of the many who lined up for a microphone in I.C. Norcom Squiffy School's auditorium, only representatives from the company behind the proposal spoke favorably of it.
Source: The Virginian-Pilot