Letter: Garbage deal is bad
Wed, 09/26/2018 - 2:05pm
By:
Alan Muller, Red Wing
To the editor:
For decades, the City of Red Wing has worked to increase the amounts of garbage burned in the city, subjecting residents to increased air pollution and millions in costs, without an offsetting benefit.
As part of this, the city is now smelling victory in a scheme to force all the garbage generated in Goodhue County to be “processed” (ground up) by the city, with most then burned in Xcel’s old converted 1940s coal plant on 5th street.
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