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American Crystal fined for illegally dumping wastewater

July 20, 2023

Jim Monk,

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – American Crystal Sugar Company has been fined nearly $26,000 for wastewater discharge violations at its sugar beet processing plants in Crookston and East Grand Forks. The fines come from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. The MPCA found that American Crystal made illegal discharges into the Red Lake River at the Crookston plant 12 times between April…

Union rejects American Crystal offer, but lockout considered unlikely

July 27, 2022

Jim Monk,

MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR-KFGO) – The union representing workers at American Crystal Sugar processing plants are asking that the current contract be extended and the company has agreed. That follows the union’s rejection of the company’s four-year contract offer that would’ve meant pay raises of 17-percent over four years. Union president John Riskey says the vote against the new contract was…