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“5 Questions about [Garbage Burner] Ash Mining in Red Wing”

By on April 30, 2016 in Uncategorized

City of Red Wing officials are screwing up yet again:

Some more background here.

Watch the video, then please sign the petition:

“Demand NO ASH MINING in Red Wing ….”

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/873/100/158/#sign

 

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From the Mankato Free Press: “Role of Wilmarth waste burning plant still contentious”

By on January 11, 2016 in Uncategorized

http://www.mankatofreepress.com/news/role-of-wilmarth-waste-burning-plant-still-contentious/article_97663e2c-9cf0-11e5-a3b1-7f64fe0aefad.html

Veteran reporter Tim Krohn did an extensive story on this.

MANKATO — Since the late 1980s the Wilmarth plant in Mankato has been burning processed waste from counties in the Twin Cities and the region.

Before the plant was approved, local environmentalists fought bitterly against it, arguing the toxins from emissions would endanger people’s health. But over the decades the plant has operated at near capacity, largely without notice and hasn’t had any serious violations of its permit.

Now, as Rasmsey and Washington counties prepare to increase the amount of garbage that is processed and burned, Xcel Energy says the Wilmarth plant and another they operate in Red Wing play a key role in reducing the amount of waste going into landfills and producing electricity, with the Mankato plant’s two turbines making 20 megawatts of power.

But a Red Wing activist who’s long opposed the amount of waste being burned says Xcel shouldn’t be in the business of incineration and that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is misguided in pushing for waste incineration and doesn’t put strict enough limits on stack pollution.

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