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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (219390)	9/11/2007 11:54:40 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) of 793953

This global warming B.S. isn't funny. It affects people's lives. This group wants to invest $1.6 billion in a depressed part of the state. The group jumped through ALL the environmental hoops. Last week the State's EPA voted unanimously to ok the project - last hurtle. Opps, not yet: Suit: Steel Plant Didn't Consider Global Warming (AP) St. Paul An environmental impact study for a proposed new steel plant on the Iron Range failed to consider the project's impact on global warming, an environmentalist group says in a lawsuit. The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy says the thick environmental impact statement on the planned Minnesota Steel Industries plant in Nashwauk should have included information about the greenhouse gases that will be produced to power the plant. The lawsuit filed Monday names the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Kevin Reuther, an attorney for the group, said the $1.6 billion taconite mine-to-steel plant will require 450 megawatts of electricity, equivalent to a medium-sized coal-burning power plant. That would produce 5 million tons of carbon dioxide gas per year, he said, generating a 13 percent increase in emissions at a time when the state's goal is to reduce its global warming gases by 15 percent from 2005 levels by 2015 and 80 percent by 2050. The complaint, filed in Itasca County District Court, said the environmental impact statement did not "evaluate any alternatives, or consider any mitigation measures that would reduce or eliminate the project's significant contribution to increased greenhouse gas emissions." A DNR spokesman said top agency officials had not seen the lawsuit but would review it this week. The agency is required to respond within 20 days. Minnesota Steel is intended to be the first steelmaking facility ever on the Range and the first facility in North America to integrate iron ore mining and processing and steelmaking on one site. The project received the last of its required state permits last week. If the lawsuit succeeds, the center said, work on the project would have to halt until the DNR addressed the alleged deficiencies in the environmental impact statement.

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