by Pine Journal
September 9, 2010 at 6:06 am in Pine Journal
Should the city and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency approve the Industrial Landfill permit, Dem-Con would make a significant investment in order to bring the landfill into compliance with MPCA requirements. Continue Reading
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It just seems odd to me that we need to haul waste from all over to a river basin that flows into the St Louis River and eventually into the largest body of fresh water in the USA. I am totally against this site becomming a waste disposal area. I’m not investigative reporter, but the information we have recievied in the PJ seems more like propaganda. I also have the question of why is Ulland Bros so eager to rid themselves of this property? Is the area depleted and they are facing millions of dollars of remediation costs for the damage they have incurred to this property? In reality this area could/would someday be prime retail and housing area when a service road is built along the highway from the college at 14th street to the scanlon exit of highway 45. But instead of building houses and businesses lets build a DUMP. Then 50 years from now when this company is broke, we can clean up the toxic crap that has flowed into Lake Superior. Why can’t you build this dump in a farmers field in North or South Dakota where no water flows? But just think of all the revenue Cloquet will get from from the DUMP. Cloquet…”Quality Dump City of the North”
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I think this is a great example of how much Cloquet has grown in the last 40 years. One would assume that when the zoning and permitting for the landfill was originally done, that area was pretty much wilderness.
Since we already have such limited choices as to what can be done with the property, this option seems as good as any to me, and better than some.
If Cloquet continues to grow in the next 40 years like it has in the past, it might be nice to know that there will be at least one area that has to remain as park land/greenspace.
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Industrial waste right next to a river system…. what could go wrong there? I’m quite sure and in fact would bet peoples lives on the promises made by the operators to act ethically and and in 100 yrs when the sheet-hits-the fan or washes downstream they will be there for us… or on the other hand.. I’ve lived in Cloquet for 15 yrs now and this is just the kind of stupidity and disregard for the land I have come to expect here… I’m no ultra environmentalist [not that there's anything wrong with that] i just believe in using my brain and I dont get my opinions from bumper stickers. If you visit us and see how the locals treat the land around the river ie. throwing garbage, dumping unwanted waste like TVs ,refrigerators, to avoid disposal fees… this idea fits Cloquet. I’m moving. The finnbillys can have this town. My condolences to those living downstream.
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