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December 15th, 2009 Smurfit Stone Container Corporation announces the permanent closure of the expansive pulp mill just West of Missoula. 417 workers were told they had two weeks before they had to find a new job. For an explanation as to why, Smurfit President Steve Klinger writes in a brief statement that mills were “high-cost facilities that do not provide adequate returns over the long term for the company.” The immediate economic impacts of Frenchtown and Missoula are enormous. At the t ...
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Show Notes: In part two of the Clark Fork Coalition’s panel discussion on the Smurfit-Stone complex, hydrogeologist Elena Evans with the Missoula Valley Water Quality District discusses what we know (and what we don’t know) about groundwater contamination at Smurfit and how this contamination interacts with the Missoula aquifer and the Clark Fork R…
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Episode 5: Presentation Part One: Is it Safe?
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Show Notes: In this episode, we’ll hear part one of a panel discussion aimed at answering three critical questions about the Smurfit Stone complex: 1) Is it safe? 2) Is it leaking? and 3) Is it legal? Part one features expert insights from Karin Boyd, an experienced geomorphologist who authored a recent study mapping the future migration path of th…
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Episode 4: The Fish Consumption Advisory Update
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In this episode, we join Fish, Wildlife, & Parks biologist David Scmetterling, and the Clark Fork Coalition's John DeArment for an update to the fish consumption advisory that was issued in December 2020, how that affects aquatic life, our community, and what we should do about it. https://clarkfork.org/ http://clarkfork.org/wp-content/uploads/2021…
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Welcome back to Toxic, the Mess at Smurfit Stone. In this episode, we talk with our team of experts about superfund, sludge ponds, and solutions. While Superfund can be complicated and mired in bureaucracy, it can get done. In fact, it’s been done! Hear the story of the Milltown Dam. What does the Smurfit Mill Site and a giant ice-dam have to do wi…
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In episode one we explored the history of the Smurfit-Stone mill site on the banks for the Clark Fork River right here hin Missoula, Montana. In episode two, we talk with scientists, lawyers and local elected officials about the science and the laws. You'll hear how in a Davis vs. Goliath situation, being on the side that is smaller, hungrier and s…
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Episode 1: Dumps, Discharge and Dioxins: The History of Smurfit-Stone
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December 15, 2009: Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation announces the permanent closure of the expansive line-board plant just west of Missoula. 417 workers were told they had two weeks before they had to find a new job. For an explanation as to why, Smurfit President Steve Klinger writes in a brief statement that mills were “high-cost facilities th…
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