>The Graco building that is going up now is a manufacturing site; the office
>tower will come later. According to 1991 Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
>reports, Graco emitted 464,658 TONS of chemicals into the atmosphere in
>1990, including such carcinogenic compounds as chromium and nickel and
>developmental toxins such as xylene. Trichloroethane was also one of the
>emitted compounds which is considered a developmental, reproductive and
>environmental toxin and demonstrates persistence in the environment. I do
>not know what the new, larger plant will emit; we will have to wait until
>they are up and running and make their TRI reports.
Well, it must be a fantasticly productive manufacturing site,
because the long inland side of this building is solid loading
dock.. Your numbers, besides being 10 years old, sound kinda
fantastic too- this plant can manage to produce nearly 2,000 tons of
pollutants per workday? That's about 100 semi loads a day- I don't
think anywhere near that much raw materials enter the plant a day!
This is indeed an incredibly productive plant, or else someone has
maybe misplaced a decimal point by several places.
>Of the 650+ pollution sources in the upper river corridor (with more than
>one-half hazardous waste generators) Xcel/NSP is the biggest polluter, and
>we cannot exclude individual residents as polluters. But the point to be
>made is that Graco was allowed to expand its manufacturing without any
>environmental review to help us determine whether it will contribute even
>more to the toxic soup within the upper river corridor (and the city) while
>other industries are told they must go because they are damaging the
>ecosytem. The city keeps saying it will not make the same mistakes, as it
>did with the Kondirator metal shredder. But without an environmental
>assessment, how do they know this isn't another "mistake?"
Well, good to see you're moving on from Graco to one of the
other 649 "pollution sources". I'd worry a bit more about NSP than
Graco- after a late night incident a while back one might suspect
that they were "experimenting" with natural gas. While NSP's official
line was that this was a steam leak, several MPD officers reported
smelling gas. NSP was none to quick to answer the dispatchers phone
calls either... BTW that 650 "polution sources" probably includes
every bakery in the Northside; surely you want to close down these
major "polluters" too?
>The MPCA warned us a couple of years ago that Mpls has an air toxin problem,
>and the recent (June 28) "smog" warning, which I believe is the first-ever
>for Minneapolis, should scare us into action. But it probably won't.
>Unfortunately, unless people see their hands turn green, the effects of
>pollution seem too remote. The so-called "mobile" sources (cars and trucks)
>produce a significant amount of this pollution as well, and the north side
>has I-94 running right along its riverfront to add to the industrial
>pollution.
The smog warning is metro wide, and is not the first. And
while the Greens may not recognise the effects of pollution until
they turn that color, I have seen more than enough of the effects of
the pesticides and organoclorides that have been dumped in our great
river over the years.
>Making glib statements won't make pollution go away. We need to come
>together as a community - industry, public agencies and residents - to find
>ways to reduce the harmful things we all do to our natural systems. We
>cannot continue to sacrifice the health of our children. Jobs and taxes can
>be compatible with a clean environment.
I agree that we need to come together as a community- so why
are you trying so hard to defeat an incumbent who has fought so hard
to clean up our polluted river?
>Senator Linda Higgins (Mpls north side) introduced a couple of bills this
>session after the Mississippi Corridor Neighborhood Coaltion (MCNC) held a
>legislative district meeting on environmental issues for the community in
>January. One very positive outcome is that N and NE Mpls will now have five
>(I think that's the right number) additional pollution monitoring sites.
>Hurray for Higgins!
>
>MCNC has tried to bring environmental issues before the neighborhoods in N
>and NE so that they have a basis from which to make decisions about
>development in their communities, and to take action on harmful practices.
>We hope to have another meeting with our legislators this fall. We are
>collaborating with Clean Water Action to educate neighborhoods about using
>GIS mapping info as a tool for informing residents about what pollution
>sources are in their specific neighborhoods. We hope the Hawthorne
>neighborhood participates since it has the second highest number of
>pollution sources in the upper river corridor.
Well, sorry, but I've not been invited to be a part of your
MCNC group. You don't need GIS to find where the asbestos, DDT, PCBs,
etc. were dumped- just ask the oldtimers. I don't know why you're
pointing you're finger at Hawthorne- you folks over their by St.
Anthony Junction have a steam locomotive that smokes worse than
anything we can manage. Of course, we'll be most happy to give that
polluting eyesore(LOL), Milwaukee Road 261, a new home on our 1st
Street North trackage.
smokin' in Hawthorne,
Dyna Sluyter
>Fran Guminga
>Bottineau, Ward 3
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