The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is requiring a new environmental review of Hennepin County’s plans to burn more garbage at its downtown Minneapolis incinerator.
Stymied by citizen resistance, the operator of Hennepin County’s incinerator in downtown Minneapolis tried in vain to get the state’s OK to burn more trash via an administrative end-run around a public hearing. The current permit requires public input for any change, state officials said.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) won’t take a position — yet — on whether to require a new environmental study before Hennepin County’s downtown Minneapolis incinerator can burn more trash, because the agency doesn’t have a pending application for the project.
Hennepin County commissioners learned Thursday that they’ll have to pay $500,000 to stop the stink from the county’s downtown garbage burner from entering the new, county-sales-tax-funded, open-air Minnesota Twins stadium next door. It’s exactly the kind of thing environmental activist Leslie Davis predicted when he sued for further environmental study of the Twins’ ballpark plans.
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