Protect Starved Rock and The Illinois Valley
The desctruction and loss of Midwest farmland and the contamination of the Illinois Valley from frac sand mining and chemical manufacturing.
LaSalle 4th Ward former alderman Mark Schneider gives his thoughts on the Sierra Club‘s presentation at the LaSalle City Council meeting on Monday, March 6
“Now that we have test results, not only do these air filters to show all these heavy metals, we have soil test results from a yard that was cleaned up in the EPA Superfund cleanup, and now with soil testing has shown that it has actually a higher heavy metal contents than it did prior to the superfund cleanup.”
LaSalle News Tribune/ Shaw Local News: https://www.shawlocal.com/news-tribune/news/2023/02/22/carus-chemical-says-it-will-remove-materials-from-la-salle-warehouse-within-2-weeks/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_NewsTrib&fbclid=IwAR2Hb_8tSLhxVhGkSelYndbQZh31Qum5ksWzlg3BbUCB-leXMTE5vi_rcg4
LaSalle News Tribune/ Shaw Local News: https://www.shawlocal.com/news-tribune/news/2023/02/22/la-salle-to-test-6-more-residences-for-chemicals-in-the-aftermath-of-carus-fire/?fbclid=IwAR1eeHM1RdcGLtT3wXSDCldUkldJ6MCJtlwYhNrTKsSNiB2V5KfVqmNdfAQ
LaSalle resident, Jamie Hicks was interviewed on WLPO, Starved Rock News-Talk radio about the aftermath of the Carus Chemical disaster. Jamie was outside when the explosion happened, which caused chemicals to rain down on to a LaSalle neighborhood. Jamie’s body was covered in purple chemicals as was his home, truck and yard.
He says the city is not standing behind citizens and that he was escorted out of a news conference by the fire chief and police chief.
The WLPO interviewer then mentioned that LaSalle’s Mayor Jeff Grove was heard bragging about Carus at a recent luncheon, despite this incident.
Listen to the full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpRgMNA5idM
Protect Starved Rock and The Illinois Valley 