Great Falls group files petition asking for a full study on proposed food processing plant
By: Alexie Aguayo
and last updated 2021-05-11 20:48:19-04
HELENA â âWe plead. Do not leap before you look!â
That is the message the group, Protect the Falls, has for Montana leaders.
On May 11th, 2021, they delivered a petition to the Capitol asking the state to use the 1971 Montana Environmental Policy Act to study the potential impact of the proposed Madison Food Park.
The industrial-scale food processing facility, which includes animal processing, would be located in Cascade County about eight miles outside Great Falls.
âIt is our intent to deliver to the Governor a petition, which in part, are the City of Great Falls actions in requesting an Environmental Impact Study,â says Eric Ray, a member of Protect the Falls.
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