[CPEO-BIF] "Meeting on pickle plant riles neighbors, " Millsboro, Delaware

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Meeting on pickle plant riles neighbors
DNREC says no off-site monitoring needed

By Ron MacArthur
Cape Gazette (DE)
November 29, 2013

It was supposed to be an information session about a plan to clean up  
the 107-acre Vlasic pickle plant site in Millsboro. Instead, a Nov.  
21 meeting sponsored by the Community Involvement Advisory Council  
became another venue for frustrated residents to vent anger at state  
officials.

"Every meeting I've been to, we are told a different story. It's a  
done deal; Millsboro residents are expendable," said Wharton's Bluff  
resident Pat Catalano. "It's the governor's show to bring Allen Harim  
here."

Wharton's Bluff is one of several communities near the site where  
Allen Harim wants to open a poultry-processing plant that will offer  
700 new jobs. The site has not been used since Pinnacle Foods halted  
pickle production two years ago.

...

For the entire article, see
http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/p/meeting-on-pickle-plant-riles- 
neighbors/1085166


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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