With a Consent Order set to expire in about two weeks, AkzoNobel North America, the owner of the flooded former salt mine in Retsof that collapsed nearly 20 years ago is negotiating with New York ...
HAMPTON CORNERS, N.Y. -- A thick seam of salt courses 1,300 feet beneath the rolling farmland of Livingston County, almost as far down as the World Trade Center stood tall. Extracting the crystalline ...
Federal inspectors and geologists had argued the Retsof disaster might have been avoided if Akzo hadn’t switched two years earlier to a mining technique that left chamber roofs cracked and drooping.
Federal inspectors and geologists had argued the Retsof disaster might have been avoided if Akzo hadn't switched two years earlier to a mining technique that left chamber roofs cracked and drooping.