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Tailings issue flummoxes Magna
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With only minimal investigation, Amy could've learned that the most ardent supporters of Kennecott in that meeting were current or former Kennecott employees. Hard to be objective about the company that signs your check.
There would be nothing to report if it weren't for the "other" daily newspaper. They're the ones that did the research and broke the story.
Of course there will be supporters of Kennecott at a meeting held in Magna. Most residents and their families have some kind of connection to the company. Its a blue collar town (with a large number of Co. retirees) where some families have worked for Kennecott for generations. However the Tailings Pond cover up taps into some long standing resentments in Magna that while Kennecott extracts huge corporate profits and their leadership all live comfortably on the East Side, the Magna and Garfield area has been devalued and stigmatized by its mining past and its environmental impacts. The people who live in Magna understand this.
Hopefully this story (which needed to be reported)will showcase the need for industry to be more transparent and ethical in their dealings with the communities they impact. On a neighborhood level, it would be nice if Kennecott Property developers would spend a fraction of their Day Break effort in remediating the Magna community.
If Kennecott had issued a warning back in the early years, that would have drastically lowered property values in Magna and then most residents would have been stuck there anyway. What would that have proved?
Will there also be a review of the wisdom of continued relocation of ground water contaminants into the Tailings, and of Kennecott Land's intention to build towns and industrial centers on the Impoundment? If not, why not?
I would be surprised is the Tailings Pond withstands and earthquake. I am from Magna.