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Citizens Against the Newport Silicon Smelter

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No HiTest Land Swap

April 18, 2018 By CANSS Chair

Published•Apr 18, 2018
BOISE – Inaccurate statements are circulating in northern Idaho and northeastern Washington that the Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) is considering a proposed land exchange that would result in HiTest Silicon owning the Idaho endowment lands adjacent to a proposed smelter location, according to a press release from the IDL.

The IDL has not received an application for a proposed land exchange or access easement involving HiTest Silicon.

Canada-based HiTest Silicon wants to build a silicon smelter plant near Newport, a short distance from the Idaho-Washington border and near Oldtown in Idaho’s Bonner County. The IDL has no permitting responsibilities related to the proposed plant, but does manage a piece of endowment land adjacent to the Washington border and the lands now owned by HiTest Silicon to the west.

In the spring of 2017, before HiTest Silicon purchased the Washington property, a staff member with Washington’s Pend Oreille County approached the IDL about the endowment lands on the Idaho side of the border and the potential for the IDL to divest the property.

By law, the IDL cannot sell endowment timberland, so IDL staff engaged in preliminary discussions with Pend Oreille County about the potential for another party to enter into a land exchange with the IDL for other lands in Idaho, if certain criteria are met. Discussions ended early last summer, and the IDL has received no applications for a proposed land exchange or access easement.

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Together, we say “No Newport Silicon Smelter” Not here! Not now! Not ever!

Our Mission

Stop Hi Test Sand (now known as PacWest Silicon) from building a proposed smelter in our dense rural residential area.

Our Purpose

Bring public awareness by providing factual information, host public meetings, and maintain a Lawyer to aid in this cause.

Our commitment

CANSS is ready to do everything legally within our means to stop the proposed silicon smelter. Through generous citizen support, we have retained legal counsel taking our cause into the judicial system.

We are happy to work alongside other groups and individuals determined to stop the smelter; each of us being responsible for our own actions, intentions and agenda.

As we stand firm to protect our clean air, water and rural way of life that draws people to this area, CANSS continues to encourage growth not detrimental to the populace or environment.

CANSS is dedicated to serve the citizens in our area. We are the voice of the people!

No Newport Silicon Smelter!

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