Action Alerts
- Write a letter to the editor.
- Spread the word with a No Incinerator shirt, bumper sticker, button or hat.
- In fall 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 Frederick County, Carroll County and Maryland state candidates stand, as well as the current commissioners' career plans.
Frederick County BOCC candidate Michael Kurtianyk's position has changed from wanting a halt on the incinerator to being in favor.
County stops two BOCC candidates (including Caroline Eader) from running after they file paperwork.
A burning $50,000 mistake
Toxins a concern from burning
"[Robin] Davidov is compromised and her activities wouldn't last twenty minutes in a reputable law firm. Clear conflicts [of interest]." — attorney in private practice in Frederick County
Read actual e-mails sent to Frederick and Carroll county commissioner, Robin Davidov of the NMWDA and other officials
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."
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.
