Citizens crusade against incinerator
Originally published in Frederick News-Post on December 04, 2007
By Meg Bernhardt , News-Post Staff
IF YOU GO
WHAT: Public hearing on the siting and construction of a publicly owned Waste To Energy plant, or incinerator that generates electricity, in
WHEN: 7 p.m., Dec. 11
WHERE: Winchester Hall,
WHO: Open to the public
For more information: www.wastestudygroup.org
and www.co.frederick.md.us, Utilities and Solid Waste Division.
To sign the petition or see what it says, e-mail Sally Sorbello at sallysbeadworks@msn.com.
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Members of the nonprofit citizen organizations Friends of Frederick County and the Waste Study Group went door-to-door last weekend. They will continue their efforts this week, encouraging residents to take action against the incinerator.
The Frederick County Commissioners will hold a hearing on the incinerator, also called a waste to energy plant, next week.
The citizen advocacy groups encourage residents to testify at the hearing, sign a petition, send in post cards and e-mail the commissioners, said Friends of
The groups favor aiming for recycling rates as high as 65 percent to 75 percent instead of building an expensive incinerator that they say will produce toxic air pollution.
A regional waste-to-energy plant, shared with
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