U.S. Steel cleanup project inches forward

This is NOT a clean up, this is a band aid. This plan falls far short of the original plan options being considered in 2015. US Steel wants the property off their books, the city wants to develop the area, both are willing to go ahead with a plan that will not lead to full remediation in order to achieve those goals.

This is our local story of what will happen in northern Minnesota in the near future, all in the name of a few temporary jobs. In short, if a company with the nation’s name in it like US Steel can take over 30 years to “clean up” what they left behind then what in the world do you think will happen with Twin Metals, Polymet and the others waiting in the wings? These are multi-international conglomerates, that only see $$$. Once they get what they want it will be up to you and me again to fund the cleanup much like the US Steel site is now (half paid for by us, not USS). The new mines’ human-engineered environmental solutions will fail at some level and leave us a mess to take care of. If you think they will have money sitting around after they leave then you do not understand what’s proposed here. They take from our land and run when done. That’s where the money is.

If a US business can delay and delay and delay, then what do you think international businesses will do?