GRAND FORKS — The debate about a proposed corn milling plant for the city's northside, which has lasted for more than a year, may soon be coming to a close in Grand Forks, as the City Council has the item set for discussion at Monday's meeting .
Last month, the Department of the U.S. Air Force provided an official position on the proposed Fufeng corn mill project. In a letter to Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., Andrew P. Hunter — whose title is assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics — said the project “presents a significant threat to national security with both near- and long-term risks of significant impacts to our operations in the area.”
Following that announcement, Mayor Brandon Bochenski said he is requesting measures be taken to stop the project , including refusing to connect industrial infrastructure and denying building permits to Fufeng, pending the City Council’s decision.
But the plant, with its ties to China, has stirred a lot of discussion in and outside of Grand Forks over the last year.
When the project was first announced in November 2021, city leaders said it would come with a large economic impact for the city and hundreds of jobs to boost the local economy. But soon came the long meetings
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More than 230 Herald stories, opinion pieces and letters to the editor mentioned the project over the last year.
You can check out some of them on a timeline of the project below:
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