Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008

TTT#0818-MidtownEnergy-Part I

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 11:00AM: THE MIDTOWN ENERGY ISSUE: Green or Black? PT I

A CivicMedia/Minnesota production

Just when news reports seem to pronounce the embattled Midtown/Phillips Eco-energy Project dead (the project includes Minneapolis Councilmember Lisa Goodman as an investor), another 50-60 days’ leeway leeway remains for the principals, Kandiyohi Development Partners, to come up with the necessary financing, biomass supply sources ,and buy-agreements with customers like Xcel Energy to make city-imposed deadlines for feasibility. This in the face of serious environmental justice disputes over the environmental impact of burning anything more in close-quartered low-income, minority residential neighborhoods like Phillips and other central neighborhoods where initial support for the project has melted away.

Is this an innovative biomass energy generator in the making? Or yet another polluting industry in the already industrialized and polluted central city?

TTT’s Andy Driscoll and Lynnell Mickelsen query principals on both sides of the issues and the reporters who have covered them as the clock winds down to decisions.

GUESTS:

• STATE SEN. PATRICIA TORRES RAY, Senate District 62, encompassing the Midtown Project.

• BARBARA JOHNSON, Minneapolis City Council President

• KIM HAVEY, Partner, Midtown Eco-Energy Project/Kandiyohi Development Partners

• JULLONNE GLAD, Minneapolis Residents for Clean Air

• DAVID MORRIS, Executive VP, Institute for Local Self-Reliance

• STEVE BRANDT, Star Tribune Reporter/Analyst

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