[CPEO-BIF] Missoula, Montana mill sites

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Smurfit-Stone closure: Shuttered mills – What to do with lots of land?

By BETSY COHEN
The Missoulian (MT)
December 19, 2009

Missoula's industrial boneyard got significantly larger last week when 
Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. announced it will close the Frenchtown 
linerboard plant on Dec. 31.

After the mill's last shift, the once-productive campus will become yet 
another ghost town bearing mute witness to Missoula's proud 
manufacturing history.

Missoula Mayor John Engen is keenly aware of the valley's increasing 
number of abandoned mill sites.

He sees them most clearly from his walks on Waterworks Hill.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_b207dc32-ed28-11de-8c1d-001cc4c03286.html

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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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