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Tailings issue flummoxes Magna

I subscribe to both daily newspapers and often turn to the New for credible reporting. You've done it again. No scare tactics, not hysteria, just good old fashioned reporting. Thanks.

"while some threatened a class-action lawsuit against Kennecott, others applauded the company's efforts in their community. There were mixed reactions for and against the copper giant throughout Kennecott's presentation, ranging from anger to appreciation"

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.

Harris...
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.

MOVE!

I hope the current managers of Kennecott can be trusted and this "issue" is just a relic of the Joklick era when management answered to no one (especially State Regulators).
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.

Depending on the exact intensity of a "major earthquake" along the Wasatch Front, 75% or more of homes would be severely damaged or destroyed. Magna isn't the only place that would suffer. Just looking at the sides of the tailings impoundment would lead any thoughtful person to conclude that it wouldn't stay standing in a major earthquake. No intelligent person needs to be told that.

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?

Who picks the "independent third-party" reviewer of seismic adequacy of the Tailings Impoundment?
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?

people, it didn't happen ,let them clean it up,ok? my family lived and worked there all of their lives and died of old age....40 years get over it!!!!!

'nough said

I echo your sentiments 100%

I would be surprised is the Tailings Pond withstands and earthquake. I am from Magna.