Politicians' Positions on the Waste-to-Energy Incinerator

County Commissioner President Jan H. Gardner

In favor of the waste-to-energy incinerator

Gardner does not support the McKinney site for the incinerator and says it's too small, but she is not opposed to incineration. Although Gardner should be commended for research she presented on ArrowBio and for attending the solid waste conference in Philadelphia, where she and Commissioner Jenkins met with representatives from ArrowBio, on June 23, 2009, she allowed the BOCC to vote to move forward with incineration instead of getting the full report on the alternatives, which, immediatey prior to the vote, she even suggested doing!

Gardner and Thompson signed the Potomac Watershed Trash Treaty—but they want a trash incinerator that close to the Monocacy?