Valley Watch Supports Governor’s Decision on Fertilizer Plant

For Immediate Release Contact: John Blair 812 550 3003

Valley Watch applauds the decision by Indiana Governor Mike Pence to stop State financial support to the Pakistani company who was trying to build a giant fertilizer plant in Posey County. Governor Pence wisely discerned that the widely reported connection between the company and the manufacture of Improvised Explosive Devices in Afghanistan was more than Hoosier veterans should have to put up with just for some promised jobs.

Valley Watch had previously called for a “moratorium” on the construction of new Indiana fertilizer manufacturers until adequate safety assessments could be in place to determine the feasibility of locating such facilities so near to other facilities that have severe explosive potential. In the case of Posey County, it was proposed that Fatima be placed adjacent to the second largest ethanol plant in the US. The combined plants’ potential for a major catastrophe needed better assessment that the diligence given by local economic development officials who seemed nearly overwhelmed by their support for Fatima.

Valley Watch suggests that in the future, decisions like this should be given more public scrutiny and transparency before dangerous and essentially unvetted proposals are given the green light. Citizens of southwest Indiana deserve more from self appointed economic development regimes.

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John Blair
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi

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