The basic point of contention is that the studies are theoretical and not empirical. A sure fire way to resolve who is getting more or less pollution from the incinerator would have been to perform background tests looking at dioxin levels or some other incinerator pollutant (mercury may not be the best because there are other sources like Riverside in the area), and see if levels are increasing or decreasing in any particular area around the incinerator and/or miles out. Since none of this work has been done, the public has no way of gauging their exposure based on on any real data. If you check with Minneapolis Environmental Management you'll find that the incerator pollution controls fail from time to time (to the point of getting fined significantly), meaning anyone in the vicinity may be getting more bad air then they bargained for on the wrong day.
Without data, who's to say who's getting the bulk of the incinerator's pollution? Another bonus for the incinerator is due to the fact they are considered a waste treatment facility they do not have to disclose their emissions to the Toxic Release Inventory--creating even less public transparency.
Circumventing public input (other than tax revenue) seems to be the theme of the stadium, so maybe it's appropriate that it be located right next to a gargbage burner that aspires to do the same.
Justin Eibenholzl Armatage Resident SE Como Environmental Coordinator
From: David Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Mpls] Re: stadium Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 12:54:05 -0500
On May 2, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Andy Driscoll wrote:
And why would anyone want to play or watch baseball in a cloud of burning garbage?
Even though they have less power, I think critics of the deal need to be as responsible as they want proponents to be.
There is no cloud of burning garbage at the site. The smell all comes from ground-level deliveries (there's more about this in the Skyway story link I sent earlier today).
The burner's stack shoots the pollutants high into the sky where they drift away from the facility. Study after study - unchallenged by environmentalists, as far as I know - show that the highest particulate "fallout" with prevailing wind patterns occurs at a point in North Minneapolis and in the Phillips neighborhood.
That "environmental justice" situation predates the ballpark and the stadium has no effect on how it will continue in the future.
David Brauer Kingfield
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