Regarding the story of Christensen Oil trying to expand in a Provo neighborhood: I almost missed the most important and telling sentence buried deep in the story, so I wanted to draw extra special attention to it: “Brandon Christensen, one of the family members who works at the facility, told the Provo City Council in June that the company wanted to add more large oil tanks to reduce hazards from temporary storage at the site.”
So let me get this straight: Brandon Christensen told the city council in June that his family’s company Christensen Oil was storing hazardous materials in a residential neighborhood near people’s homes in a way that was, in his own words, hazardous. And he’s saying that’s why they need to expand?
That’s like letting people live in my front yard and when the neighbors and city complain, my proposal is to build out my house so that it can encompass the overflow of tenants. Does that work in Provo?
What’s to keep them from doing this routine forever? Store whatever hazardous chemicals improperly, then claim they need to expand in order to reduce the hazards they themselves have purposefully created. Lather, rinse, repeat ad infinitum.
If business is so great that they need to keep expanding on their tiny, overcrowded lot, then maybe it’s time to start looking for a bigger piece of property somewhere that isn’t in a bunch of people’s backyards. They should be expanding there.
Sam Garfield, South Salt Lake
from The Salt Lake Tribune https://ift.tt/351GEDv
November 06, 2020 at 06:00AM
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