Action Alerts
- Write to the BOCC and ask them to reconsider the incinerator!
- Write to Frederick County Public Schools and ask them to send a letter to all families in the affected areas.
- Write a letter to the editor.
- In 2010, vote for BOCC candidates who will reverse the incinerator decision. Kai Hagen is the only county commissioner who is against incineration. Find out where our elected officials stand and the BOCC's future career plans.
Thompson asks for BoCC re-vote on incinerator site!
Sign on to Senate Bill 514 today! Click here.
Meg Tully from the Frederick News-Post posted an online poll:
The great flip-flop
Comment after article:
"Why didn't the county staff, the BOCC, the NMWDA, and the vendor produce computer generated renderings of the plant to show that it wouldn't impact the battlefield and the scenic river? We're paying the vendor to do exactly that kind of thing, contractually the vendor was on the hook to get this approval. Why didn't they? Because they can't, everyone and his brother knows this facility will degrade both the battlefield and the river. So they resort to this. The entire process is pockmarked with dishonesty, but this time it is entirely attributable to four of our commissioners."
Comment from the Nov. 11 FNP article:
"The BoCC is out of control. They are sueing their own Planning Commission because they didn't like their idea to build a WTE Plant next to the River and Historic Battlefield that will produce more truck traffic than the site legally can sustain. If a developer wanted to build a shipping facility there, and have the same traffic counts and smoke stack, the BoCC would be all over it, prohibiting them from building. Vote them out 2010!"
The Nov. 10 WTE discussion starts at 3:43. The unbelievable probing by Jenkins in how to remove Kai Hagen from the planning commission in order to insert himself (thereby changing the votes in favor of WTE) starts at 4:08. The BOCC also wants to go to the MDE to go around the planning commission. (see 3:58).
The county's current solid waste management plan specifically states that "waste to energy" incineration does not meet the economic or environmental goals of the county. It is a specifically non-recommended option.
The current solid waste management plan states: "Solid Waste disposal and transfer facilities, being critical to the health and safety of Frederick County residents, will remain under the ownership of Frederick County." (See p. 15) HOWEVER, the contracts are signed for the NMWDA to own the trash incinerator, and for Wheelabrator to build and manage it.
Comments from the "Unplanning" FNP article:
"Jenkins and those who voted to build a trash-burning plant next to a national battlefield, tourist attraction and major revenue producer are the ones who are reckless, negligent and aren’t doing a good job for the citizens of Frederick County. What good is a 'comprehensive plan' if our elected leaders can ignore it whenever they don't agree with it?"
"There are better ways to deal with our trash and the BoCC are all well aware that there are alternatives."
EPA is testing the air outside 63 schools in 22 states because of the constant news being released on a dangerous national trend of siting schools on or near sources of pollution.
The incinerator will burn 24 hours a day and is due to be constructed within a 3-mile radius of the following schools AND Frederick Memorial Hospital: Ballenger Creek Elementary and Middle, Crestwood Middle, the Earth and Space Science Center, Frederick High, Hillcrest Elementary, Lincoln Elementary, Maryland School for the Deaf, Monocacy Valley Montessori Public Charter, Orchard Grove Elementary, Parkway Elementary, Tuscarora Elementary and High, and West Frederick Middle.
