Comments on: Adios ASARCO, Hello Future!

By: Chuy Licon

Chuy Licon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:27:15 +0000

I am glad that they have closed ASARCO. I am curious what people will decide to do with the ASARCO site. The ASARCO tower should be kept in place. It would be a marker of where a major pollutant once stood and how the people can overcome such an obstacle. I am unsure what ASARCO property will be given up but it has some potential, it is right against the river, it seems that part goes along the NM border line and it is just south of I-10. An idea is to make it a forested park, like the Bosque Park in the lower valley. I wonder what was the natural state of that area before we all came. UTEP could annex it and use it for research in cleaning up waste sites. It should end up in better condition than what it is today.

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:59:16 +0000

I still remember the good old days at Mesita when that sulphur would fill your lungs and you could literally taste the air. Do you think we could somehow recreate pouring slag at night just to watch it glowing!

By: Erik Pavia

Erik Pavia — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:05:04 +0000

As ugly as some people consider the tower to be, its part of the cityscape. El Paso doesn’t have much of a skyline, but the Asarco smokestack part of it. That tower has been there as long as I can remember and I can’t really imagine the city without it. It stands for a lot, and leaving it as some sort of monument is not a bad idea at all.

By: Natalia Salmeron-Mendoza

Natalia Salmeron-Mendoza — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:43:08 +0000

Aaron I agree with you 100%
the tower needs to stay in order
to remember everyone of how power
is in the hand of the people

By: Dave Cortez

Dave Cortez — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:30:23 +0000

Here here Aaron. Viva los Acornistas!

The old Asarco site outside of Denver did exactly what you are proposing; they cleaned the site and maintained some of the old plant structures as pieces of a community public park.

Who knows? We’ll see how much support that gains when people are seeing green when they look at the valuable land.

By: priscilla

priscilla — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:19:04 +0000

I like your idea Aaron, don’t be shy about submitting it. Thanks for giving props to the community members and UTEP students who went and protested at the TCEQ hearing

By: Aaron Quinn

Aaron Quinn — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:17:30 +0000

This battle against the smoking giant has come to a end. I believe we should do one thing for the people of el Paso. We should leave the tower up as a symbol that 300 hundred people from El Paso went to Austin to protest the reopening of Asarco last year and print their names on a metal board for their efforts to make a difference when others never bothered. The grounds should be turned into a wildlife park to make up for the border wall cut off that surrounds our beautiful city. We’re all smiling at our win but i wish Acorn was still around to bring in more members for future events. good job everyone.

By: Topper

Topper — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:09:14 +0000

I say build a circus there. That way it’s entertaining and those who call themselves down casts of society can have a job there. Just an idea.

By: Topper

Topper — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:38:26 +0000

great job mr prez!