Protest seeks Asarco demolition delay

Juarez residents and some former ASARCO employees gathered to hold a rally/press conference to stop the demolition of the ASARCO smokestacks. The groups met at the International Park at Border Marker #1. (Ruben R Ramirez/El Paso Times)

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A group of El Paso and Jurez residents came together on Thursday to call for a halt to the demolition of the Asarco smokestacks until more information related to environmental testing and monitoring is made public.

They also urged Asarco

The smokestacks are set to come down between 6:30 and 7 a.m. April 13.

"Taking down the smokestacks doesn't mean that the risk of contamination is over," said El Pasoan Carlos Rodriguez, a former Asarco employee and member of the newly created Answers Wanted on Asarco Remediation and Environmental Assessment, or A.W.A.R.E.

Rodriguez was among 10 members of A.W.A.R.E. and Save the Stacks that gathered at the International Park at Border Marker No. 1 to call for a delay in the demolition. The group also announced a protest

They were joined by a dozen representatives from Colectivo Contra la Demolicin de las Chimeneas de Asarco (People Against the Demolition of Asarco Smokestacks) and neighbors from the Ladrillera de Jurez neighborhood.

"We are the ones who live closer to Asarco, and yet nobody has taken the time to inform us what is going to happen once the stacks are down, or showed us an environmental impact test that proves there won't be any

Juarez residents and some former ASARCO employees gathered to hold a rally/press conference to stop the demolition of the ASARCO smokestacks. The groups met at the International Park at Border Marker #1. (Ruben R Ramirez/El Paso Times)

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