International Falls Journal - A home for a neutrino detector, By TOM LAVENTURE, Staff Writer - Comments

If you can't trust our

Thomas L. Johnson — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:39:07 -0500

If you can't trust our government on issues of toxic chemicals, who can you trust? You have to remember that these are the people who went to war on the off chance that Iraq still had weapons of mass destruction. Can you imagine that if they went to war to protect us from mobile biological labs [that never existed anywhere but in the imagination] that they would somehow spill toxic materials into our waterways and lakes? And even if they did manage to spill a million gallons or so, could it be any more dangerous than the agent orange that we know never caused any ill effects? So, let's welcome the DOE. They are our friends and they are Cheney's friends and they are probably friends to the Canadian lynx. We can only win.

Gosh, what doesn't seem

Anton1965 — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:37:21 -0500

Gosh, what doesn't seem right about this story???

"Only" 1000 feet from Ash River
"Only" 2.8 miles from Kabetogama
"Only" 4.2 million gallons of "toxic" fluid
"Only" 156 metric tons of a toxic Devcon-60
"Only" 600 semi-tankers each carrying 7000 gallons of a toxic adhesive.

"Only" 4 possible historic sites "only" 1 mile away

The 4.2 million gallons of toxic fluid "Is only toxic to water organisms and "only" toxic to humans".

AND I hear outhouses are banned anywhere in the area!!! Am I missing something here?? I guess we may really have reached the point where we either don't care or we just don't care to think.

Let me keep my 500 gallon outhouse, you can have your 4.2 million gallon toxic temporary expierment in my backyard. Did I miss something?

A home for a neutrino detector, By TOM LAVENTURE, Staff Writer

Journal Staff — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:19:29 -0500

Ash River considered for neutrino detector

Northern Minnesota may soon play an important role in better understanding dark matter in the universe, and the relationship between matter and antimatter.