Midtown burner
From:
Steven Clift
Date:
Apr 30 02:09 UTC
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I notice this announcement on another of our forums about a radio show on
Wednesday about the project.
Steven Clift
TRUTH TO TELL KFAI Radio, 90.3 Minneapolis/106.7 St. Paul/Streamed@ KFAI.org
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 11:00AM: MIDTOWN MELTDOWN?: Green or Black? KFAI Radio,
90.3 Minneapolis /106.7 St. Paul / Streamed@ KFAI.org A CivicMedia/Minnesota
production
Just when news reports seem to pronounce the embattled Midtown/Phillips
Eco-energy project dead (the project includes Minneapolis Councilmember Lisa
Goodman as an investor), another 50-60 days¹ leeway remains for the principals,
Kandiyohi Development Partners, to come up with the necessary financing,
biomass supply sources ,and buy-agreements with customers like Xcel Energy to
make city-imposed deadlines for feasibility. This in the face of serious
environmental justice disputes over the environmental impact of burning
anything more in close-quartered low-income, minority residential neighborhoods
like Phillips and other central neighborhoods where initial support for the
project has melted away. Is this an innovative biomass energy generator in the
making? Or yet another polluting industry in the already industrialized and
polluted central city? TTT¹s Andy Driscoll and Lynnell Mickelsen will query
principals on all sides of the issues and the reporters who have covered them
as the clock winds down to final decisions.
GUESTS:
STATE SEN. PATRICIA TORRES RAY, Senate District 62, adjoining the Midtown
Project.
BARBARA JOHNSON, Minneapolis City Council President
KIM HAVEY, Partner, Midtown Eco-Energy Project/Kandiyohi Development Partners
JULLONNE GLAD, Neighborhood activist opposing the project.
DAVID MORRIS, Executive VP, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
STEVE BRANDT, Star Tribune Reporter/Analyst
OTHERS invited: REP. KAREN CLARK, House District 61A, where the project lives;
GREGORY PRATT, MN Pollution Control Agency. ______________________