Why did Duluth’s Georgia-Pacific plant really close?
October 20, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
I was plant engineer at Superwood from May 1976 to Aug. 31, 1996. I did the environmental coordination for the last five years.
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OK, good tech info,but maybe i missed it, why did it really close?
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Thanks for some facts on this. I wonder if Norbond and Louisiana Pacific joined the lawsuit with the Greens because they, as industry members, had taken steps to comply with the MACT regulations and felt it only fair that other industry members should be held to the same bar? This would seem to bolster the belief that the plant needed to fund some upgrades to equipment. This funding, which might of caused a smidgen of a decrease in shareholder returns was not an option apparently.
It seems that corporations in this country cry about new regulations causing higher prices to consumers, when the extra cost can just as well come from shareholder profits. But taking a small hit to shareholder profits is not the American way these days. Whats up with that? No more ‘common good’ eh?
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Sounds like over-zealous enviros have struck again. It’d be nice if they worked toward leveling the playing field with the rest of the planet’s emerging industrial nations. I bet China puts more pollution into the air than all of North America. But it would be better to destroy our economy with excessive regulations to fix problems that may or may not be real.
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Over recent years I have commented on boards that Duluth and all its quangos need to adopt a proactive approach to business retention and recruitment. Retention of existing businesses – among them GP aka Superwood in form of tax abatement or other incentives to modernize their plant. I don’t altogether understand Fredrickson’s article – too much meddling from EPA?,,,, whatever the case, if the laws were too onerous, did the State of MN et al offer to help defray the costs – TO THE BENEFIT OF ALL OF US?
That is the question, of course, it’s too late now.
Now what are we going to do with Advanstar publishing? Let that go too?
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