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Mary bateman 10

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Interview · North Dakota · Mary Bateman

Themes: Land & stewardship

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New transcript-based questions created with AI assistance using Scott Simpson’s Learn About and Learn From guide.

Learn About questions

1. What concerns does Mary Bateman raise about water contamination? 2. Why does she call for more study before actions affect the land and people? 3. How does she emphasize the humanity of people living with those consequences?

Learn From questions

1. Whose lives might be affected by a decision I consider mainly in economic terms? 2. What questions should I ask when environmental risks fall on someone else's community? 3. How could I show care for water and for the people who depend on it?

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Mary bateman 10

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I don’t see why they couldn’t have studied that like before they before they did anything and to let the people go you know and they should have studied about the water and that in other words they contaminate our first and nothing we and anything that goes they’ll be all contaminated and in other words you know we it’s bad enough we have the mosquitoes can all these sanction or that goes on you know among the people you know yeah so cancer is the worst and not yeah i really i really think that people should look further into it you know because just because it’s not their land you know experiment again these are people that you get liveth and that breach that same thing breathing you know yes i really i really don’t that I didn’t approve it either

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