LONGVIEW STINKS

 Literally, as well as figuratively.

The Mint Farm Business Complex is based on the Mint Farm land … 8 minutes from my home.

Mint Farm Layout.

Heron Pointe from the Mint Farm; 8 mins.

It was reported today, that Longview’s City Council has approved the sale of 4 vacant Mint Farm Lots, to host the biofuel manufacturing operation of Divert Inc.; the biofuel would be processed using collected food waste from 600 local grocery stores (who knew there were that many local stores!) into a refined natural gas product.

Now, I am all for the creation of new jobs.

I am NOT for the destruction of air quality.

Longview already stinks.

There are days that stink can be smelled at all corners of Longview, as the toxic stench from the Industrial Way business sector is held over the heads of the population under a heavy cloud layer – there is a heavy cloud layer over Longview at least 2/3rds of every year. Longview flanks the Columbia River … the river creates a heavy fog bank.

And already Council Leaders are leaking lies about the noxious odors that will surely leak into the atmosphere: “if there is any smell at any point, that’s their product. It’s supposed to be self-contained. If their product is leaking, they make no money.”

EVERY business operating along Industrial Way is leaking!

That is why Longview stinks.

These are the 3 newer businesses operating close to my home:

Mint Farm Generating Station: https://www.pse.com/pages/facilities/mint-farm & https://www.pse.com/en/pages/facilities/mint-farm

Mint Farm Power Plant: https://www.pbsusa.com/projectprofile/mint-farm-power-plant/

Fertilizer Plant: https://www.vbjusa.com/news/top-stories/joint-venture-may-bring-fertilizer-plant-longview/

I have environmental asthma.

I didn’t have this issue until we moved to Longview in the Winter of 1995.

I don’t need more pollution going into the air, here.

I understand the need for Longview mucky-mucks to rake in the Big Bucks … but, it seems to me, that the “unused food waste” (aka restaurant foods & grocery food sources) that did not sell, could be better used by the homeless shelters that dominate downtown Longview – as well as the homeless camp that the City Council has decreed set up.

But, the poor can’t generate Big Bucks, can they?

And the local population apparently has no say at all about what gets belched into the air we breathe.

It is infuriating.