Excelsior Energy continues to get news coverage for their plan to add $20 million in environmental upgrades to their vast $2.3 billion proposed Iron Range coal-gas plant while paying for $500,000 worth of improvements to Taconite, Bovey and Coleraine’s wastewater plants.
This unproven new company, using taxpayer grants and loans, is buying the support of local and state officials with lofty promises they can’t guarantee. This project has almost no chance of being built unless it is heavily and continually subsidized with government funds. If built it will be cursed as the greatest mistake made by this generation of political leaders on the Iron Range. If you want to see some public officials who deserve special rebuke, read who’s quoted in this one-sided Mesabi Daily News story.
JUST. SAY. NO.
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