SYRACUSE, N.Y. — As Micron’s project in Clay takes shape, community members gathered to ask if the region’s next environmental injustice is being built.
The event, hosted by WAER, was at Syracuse’s ArtRage Gallery, where paintings of the Cicero swamp lined the walls. The project outlined parts of the very land Micron is building on.
Dr. Catherine Landis, a plant ecologist and science professor at State University of New York Environmental Science and Forestry says the wildlife that inhabits these wetlands are in danger.
“I mean, we’re losing birds, we’re losing bats, we’re losing insects, we’re losing amphibians, I mean you name it,” Landis said. “The construction of Micron will result in the loss of 200 acres of wetlands on site,” she said…