Update: Excellent coverage of the meeting at TC Daily Planet (by Dan Gordon).
Update: MPR has a story. Published before the meeting took place last night. If you went to the meeting, please comment!
The City of Minneapolis has tentatively agreed to sell land at 2850 20th Avenue South — the former location of the South Transfer Station — to a private, for-profit enterprise that plans to build an incinerator to generate electrical power and steam heat.
Midtown Minneapolis Incinerator Information: Midtown Incinerator Information
Here is what Dan Cooke has to say about Biomass Convertors:
Burners are 19th Century technology. There is nothing particularly new or novel about a “biomass” burner — it’s still an incincerator and to the extent it burns materials that release toxins it will make us sick. The State of Delaware, in recognition of these problems, has enacted a statewide ban on incinerator construction within THREE MILES of any residence, church, hospital or school. If you live in the area bounded by Harriet and Calhoun, the airport, the St. Paul border and downtown Mpls, you are well-within this radius. Midtown EcoEnergy Project: Seward Neighbors Forum: E-Democracy.Org Forums
(Read the rest of Dan’s post at the forum link where he mentions conflict of interest issues between CouncilMember Lisa Goodman and Michael Krause, a key figure at Kandiyohi, the group proposing the project.)
There is a public meeting hosted by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) on Dec. 13 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 2730 E. 31st St., 6–8:30 p.m. MPCA will give information about and receive public comment on a draft air permit for Kandiyohi Development’s proposed Midtown Eco Energy MEE) project.
More info at Twin Cities Daily Planet
Official Midtown Eco Energy site
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