[Mpls] Re: stadium

[David Brauer]

On May 2, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Andy Driscoll wrote:

> And why would anyone want to play or watch baseball in a cloud of 
> burning
> garbage?

Even though they have less power, I think critics of the deal need to 
be as responsible as they want proponents to be.

There is no cloud of burning garbage at the site. The smell all comes 
from ground-level deliveries (there's more about this in the Skyway 
story link I sent earlier today).

The burner's stack shoots the pollutants high into the sky where they 
drift away from the facility. Study after study - unchallenged by 
environmentalists, as far as I know - show that the highest particulate 
"fallout" with prevailing wind patterns occurs at a point in North 
Minneapolis and in the Phillips neighborhood.

That "environmental justice" situation predates the ballpark and the 
stadium has no effect on how it will continue in the future.

David Brauer
Kingfield