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Residents urge transparency after Alabama Power installs infrastructure in Tomanville area; council requests utility and health-department meeting
Summary
Residents told the Mobile City Council they received little notice about utility structures placed in their yards and raised health and displacement concerns; Councilman Penn requested Alabama Power attend a follow-up meeting and suggested including the health department.
Brenda Barnes, a Mobile resident who identified herself as disabled, told the Mobile City Council she is concerned about recent infrastructure installations she described as related to Alabama Power and 5G projects in and around the Tomanville neighborhood. "The issues I'm concerned with is, purported 5g installations, Alabama Power Infrastructure Project and community displacement," she said, asking whether the city followed public-notice, environmental and civil-rights procedures.
Barnes cited several oversight authorities by name during her…
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