Monday, October 16, 2006

Menards vs. DNR

To the RKLD Board-
Check out the Janesville Gazette, (last Monday), DNR refuses to grant permit to Menard's for two huge distribution plants that would employee hundreds.

As it turns out, there was one small "supposed"wetland on the site, no bigger than a qtr acre lot, of which Menard's was going to spend hundreds of thousands to rebuild the wetland, 100 times as large.

But no, the DNR couldn't have that, so instead, Menard's dropped over a $1 million fighting them, and lost, and now is building the two new facilities in Illinois and Iowa, taking hundreds of jobs and tax revenue out of state.

Nice job WI DNR. This is borderline criminal action that has to be stopped.
XXX

UPDATE:
Here is the link: Janesville Gazette