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LG still coy about QC battery plant plans BY MARK MORAN Tribune Staff Writer
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fter months of inactivity, LG Energy Solution has taken a small step in the construction of its proposed battery production facility in Queen Creek. But the company continues to remain vague about its construction timetable – or
even firmly commit to its long-proposed plans here. The South Korean company has been quiet for nearly a year after announcing its $2.8-billion investment in the facility and won a state Land Department auction of 650 acres of State Trust Land near N. Ironwood Drive and E. Germann Road. In a Jan. 31 letter, Byungsoo Ko, director of
Steady as she rides BUSINESS .............. 15 EV aims to interest kids in construction trades.
its American subsidiary, ES America, LLC, told Arizona Commerce Authority President/ CEO Sandra Watson LG is making a sworn certification that it “has agreed to make capital investments of at least $50-million in the construction of new manufacturing at the Site.” Queen Creek Economic Development Di-
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Maricopa County agrees to clean up old QC landfill site BY MARK MORAN Tribune Staff Writer
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SPORTS ................. 19 Casteel has eyes firmly fixed on a baseball crown.
COMMUNITY ............ 13 BUSINESS ................. 15 OPINION ................... 17 SPORTS .................... 19 GET OUT .................... 20 CLASSIFIEDS .............22
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Steady as she goes Trick rider Summer Boyd wowed the audience at Roots and Boots as the celebration of Western heritage began March 15 at Horseshoe Park and Equestrian Centre in Queen Creek. The all-women’s rodeo Wednesday was a prelude to a jam-packed celebration that ends today, March 19. For details, see rootsnboots.org and for more photos from the women’s rodeo, see page 12. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)
aricopa County supervisors last week agreed to comply with an Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to clean up toxic chemicals at a now-closed Queen Creek landfill. The county still owns the E. Riggs Road site just feet from the Horseshoe Park Equestrian Centre and had disclosed the presence of at least one potential harmful chemical two years ago after testing water samples. Although the county has been working to clean up the site ever since those tests, ADEQ wants it to follow a detailed cleanup and remediation plan outlined in the consent order that the Board of Supervisors approved without comment March 15. The order directs the county to update ADEQ on its progress
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