Opponents Seek Public Vote on Major Grand Forks Investment After Petition Gains Momentum

GRAND FORKS, ND (trfnews.i234.me) Three people spoke in opposition to a major Chinese investment in a Grand Forks corn processing plant at a City Council meeting Monday night. A group hopes to present enough. signatures on Tuesday to force a public vote on the issue.
asian identities all asians are not created equally just but most communists are created equally and that just that distinction is fundamental to this whole enterprise so thank you for the opportunity to speak thank you you are pushing a multi-million dollar project and you do not know what it means i have hundreds of people watching people in arizona people all over watching you guys are pushing a 100 million dollar deal and you do not know what it means thank you mr mayor um i hope that as many citizens as possible vote in every legal election that this city holds um i’ve been disappointed by the low turnout um and every election that we have i i hope voters will come out informed and i’ve worked to try to do everything i could to facilitate voters in our community some of the speakers have suggested that we haven’t done studies on traffic impacts environmental impacts water use or other potential impacts of this project the point is that the development agreement that we’ve approved is where we will do those studies and uh and we can’t do them in the past and so uh those studies are a necessary part of our due diligence as council members and the development agreement helps to assure that the project developers are paying for the lion’s share of of those studies and the suggestion that uh truck traffic is is uh bad for our community would suggest that what we need to do is eliminate some of our businesses and that that would somehow be beneficial um and that that just doesn’t make sense to me also i wanted to correct um that this is not a hundred million dollar project this is actually a 700 million dollar project this is i believe the largest investment that has ever been made in our city’s history thank you mr mayor