[CPEO-BIF] ASARCO, Globeville, Colorado

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

US: Asarco closure plan cheers Globeville

The metals processor with a long history of polluting nearby areas will 
be cleaned up for other uses.

by Steve Raabe
The Denver Post
July 13, 2006


Asarco LLC said Wednesday it will close its controversial 
metals-processing plant in Globeville by the end of August, eliciting 
cries of joy from neighborhood residents.

"We're saying 'hallelujah,"' said Lorraine Granado, a community leader 
in the north Denver neighborhood. "We're just delighted that they're 
closing the plant."

Asarco's 89-acre plant - called "Globe," it gave Globeville its name - 
has a long history of polluting nearby areas with toxic waste. It was 
declared an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site in 1993 after 
regulators determined that the plant had spread lead and arsenic 
pollution through parts of a 4.5-square-mile area.

Tucson-based Asarco, a subsidiary of industrial conglomerate Grupo 
Mexico in Mexico City, said in a statement it will transfer portions of 
the Globe operations to its copper refinery in Amarillo, Texas.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13880

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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