Quickies: Buying time for landfill; one moment of forgetfulness, a lifetime of regret
* The City Beat was surprised that so many regional customers of Grand Forks' landfill hadn't even decided on a drop-dead deadline for deciding whether they'll stay with Grand Forks or defect to another landfill. Many council members had thought the regional customers were pretty anxious with news that the replacement landfill in Turtle River Township, N.D., may be stuck in court for a few years.
It helps that the city is trying to extend the closing of the landfill to the end of 2008. By then, the lawsuit might be settled.
* Horrible news: Grand Forks mom thought she took her baby to daycare but went straight to work, leaving baby in the car. It was a hot day. After work, she heads for daycare only to learn she hadn't taken baby out of the car. Runs back to car. Baby is dead.
Our intern Lisa Gibson took the lead. The City Beat helped out with a sidebar as did intern Kyle Johnson. Remarkable how easy it is for people to forget a baby in the car. Don't cast any blame, people. Be glad it's not you.
Maybe if there was a way to switch off those front seat airbags so baby seats can go in the front seat again? Check out the stats on this page.
* What the?? North Dakota Department of Health got some details about a cyanide bomb design?
It helps that the city is trying to extend the closing of the landfill to the end of 2008. By then, the lawsuit might be settled.
* Horrible news: Grand Forks mom thought she took her baby to daycare but went straight to work, leaving baby in the car. It was a hot day. After work, she heads for daycare only to learn she hadn't taken baby out of the car. Runs back to car. Baby is dead.
Our intern Lisa Gibson took the lead. The City Beat helped out with a sidebar as did intern Kyle Johnson. Remarkable how easy it is for people to forget a baby in the car. Don't cast any blame, people. Be glad it's not you.
Maybe if there was a way to switch off those front seat airbags so baby seats can go in the front seat again? Check out the stats on this page.
* What the?? North Dakota Department of Health got some details about a cyanide bomb design?
posted by Tu-Uyen at 2:24 AM
5 Comments:
I cannot comment on the baby death. It makes my stomach turn over. I feel bad.
On the cyanide bomb. Did that come out about the time that the farmer "lost" three 30 gallon drums of cyanide off the back of his truck? I remember that ND officials went crazy and they found two right away and not sure if they found the third or not. I think I remember something about how easy it would be to contaminate water or make a bomb. But that was a long time ago.
Why isn't anyone talking about the Norwegian company who was going to build a prototype energy-producing trash reprocessing plant? Seemed like a win-win situation given GF's landfill problem.
Anonymous,
Waste to energy(in many different forms) is very common in Norway, including our sister city of Sarpsborg, and much of the world. It's even fairly common in Minnesota.
I think they want to claim it's not commercially viable, or just not talk about it, because thay have put all their eggs in the Manvel basket and they are now in the middle of a desperate lawsuit.
Unfortunately for all of us, they feel that if they admit it's feasible, it will weaken their legal case.
The political spin never stops with these guys. For instance, they admit that garbage costs are going up no matter what, but always compare costs of landfill alternatives to current landfill rates instead of the inevitably and admittedly higher future landfill rates.
Tomorrow's oranges are more expensive than last year's apples? I'll be darned, maybe that will make the news.
Actually, the ND Health Department memo came out in September 2003. The cyanide drums were lost in October 2004. [Eerie music plays...]
As for the Norwegian company, refresh my memory. What? When? How?
Grand Forks's sister city Sarpsborg, Norway solved their garbage problem by burning garbage to energy with some new technology. There was interest in seeing if that technology was economically viable here. There has not been a speficic proposal, but is probably worth exploring.
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