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Entire US state “listed” by conservation trust
An entire US state has been “listed” by an important conservation trust – in an effort to protect it from the expansion plans of the retailing giant Wal-Mart.
According to The Times, the state of Vermont has been listed as endangered because, the National Trust for Historic Preservation claims: “The world’s largest company is planning to saturate the state with seven new mammoth megastores.”
The trust says such a move would cause the “degradation of the Green Mountain State’s unique sense of place, economic disinvestments in historic downturns, loss of locally-owned businesses and erosion of the sense of community”.
The Times reports that the state has already rejected Wal-Mart’s advances – in 1993 – but the retailer opened stores on the state’s borders. It claims that it always canvasses local opinion before opening a store and that it “provides hundreds of jobs in the state of Vermont”.
However, the trust’s president Richard Moe reportedly said: “There are communities all over America whose downtowns have been devastated. We’re not telling any communities that they shouldn’t have a Wal-Mart. We simply want them to have their eyes wide open. There is no sense of community in a strip mall.”
Report by Tim Gillett, News From Abroad
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