Foxconn`s impact on Wisconsin will be closely watched by environmentalists

STURTEVANT - Foxconn Technology Group identified the site for a massive electronics plant in Racine County on Wednesday but provided few other details, prompting environmental groups to continue to raise questions about the impact a 20 million-square-foot facility might pose on natural resources.

The groups said they will monitor how the Taiwan-based company’s sprawling plant will conform with the regulation of Great Lakes water; the amount of pollution the plant will discharge; and the impact on wetlands at a site in the Village of Mount Pleasant...

   ...more

Ken Notes: No doubt. The questions is which environmentalists will be watching and whose ear will they have. Those who hate the project and scream foul will not have as much impact as those who make suggestions, offer solutions, are true stewards of the land, and want the business to both succeed and set an example of how business development should be done.