Smelter a con

Tue., March 6, 2018

To state and local elected officials: Tell us who are your constituents? Those who will profit from a smelter in our midst? Are they neighbors to the smelter? Are they downwind families or children? Are they retirees looking for respite from crowds? Those who plan to profit from this imposition? Political parties? Since when did excessive CO2, metal emissions, chemicals, silica, 24-hour noise and lights become benign?

Are the people of this community going to be asked to give up all of the reasons we live here for the sake of a declaration of “statewide significance” as declared by bureaucrats near and far away? Remember that we are constituents too.

I have lived long enough to recognize a con game when I see it. Don’t call it progress! It smells more like something else … road kill?

Jim Malcolm

Blanchard

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