Sen. Schmit has a town hall meeting / St. Charles Community Center

From: Bobby King <bking@landstewardshipproject.org>
Subject: Sen Schmit Community Mtg this Saturday in St. Charles

Sen. Schmit has a town hall meeting this Sat., March 16, 11:30 a.m. at the St. Charles Community Center.  It is important to have people there thanking him for his frac sand bill, Senate File 786, and encouraging him to keep fighting for it.  Sen. Schmit’s bill has the three key elements we are asking for 1) a moratorium; 2) an in-depth environmental study and 3) requiring the MPCA to develop stronger permit requirements.  It would be good for people to articulate these three elements and let him know how important they are to protecting southeast Minnesota.  He needs to see that there is strong community support for this and that people feel like this a common sense approach.  

A bill passed out of the House Environment Committee last night (HF 906) that is much weaker then Sen. Schmit’s bill.  It  calls for the state to give assistance to local governments on developing ordinances and for the state to adopt the Wisconsin Air Quality standards.  (I don’t know how good those standards are.) The amended version of HF 906 is not up on the web yet but should be soon.  

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Bobby King
Land Stewardship Project

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