Comments on Red Wing Ash “Mining” Project
April 15th, 2017
The Tyler Hills Neighbors have filed comments on the MPCA’s Findings of Facts, Conclusions of Law and Order for Negative Declaration on Need for an Environmental Impact Statement:
Here’s the MPCA’s Findings of Facts, Conclusions of Law and Order for Negative Declaration on Need for an Environmental Impact Statement:
Why file anything? Well, there are three major problems:
- The MPCA states that French Island ash isn’t in the landfill, isn’t being dumped there!
- Their delineation of the Water Tank Mounds is way off.
- The project proposer changed the plan because there was a leachate issue, but now that they’re collecting the leachate it needs to be dumped back into the landfill to utilize the landfill leachate system.
This isn’t rocket science folks — how can you be so off on these things?
MPCA’s THREE Red Wing Ash releases today
December 5th, 2016
OK, time to get to it. There were THREE releases from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency today related to the Red Wing/Xcel Energy/Lab USA ash mining project. THREE!
The ash mining project’s EAW:
Public notice period: 12-5-16 to 1-4-17; Project manager: Kevin Kain
And two solid waste draft permits, first NSP’s ash landfill:
INTENT TO MODIFY AND REISSUE AN EXISTING SOLID WASTE FACILITY PERMIT TO NSP- RED WING ASH DISPOSAL FACILITY, RED WING
Open for public comment through Thursday, January 5, 2017
And one for Lab USA (modify and reissue? Hmmmm…):
Intent to Modify and Reissue an Existing Solid Waste Facility Permit to Lab USA’s Ash Processing Facility – Red Wing
Open for public comment through Thursday, January 5, 2017
There’s a meeting at the Red Wing library on Wednesday, from 5-7 p.m. about the Lab USA EAW, but what about the permits?