BIDDEFORD, Maine — The owners of a waste-to-energy facility in Biddeford say they’re working with city officials on a plan to close it.
Biddeford City Council voted Tuesday to set up a negotiating committee to begin meetings with the Maine Energy Recovery Co.’s owners on a plan that would allow the city to purchase the facility for $7.5 million.
The plan for the facility’s closure is based on a memorandum of understanding that’s been approved by the city and Casella.
That memorandum calls for a new, curbside, residential recycling program in Biddeford and conversion of a state-owned landfill to a privately owned facility. It also calls for a permit to allow the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town to accept municipal solid waste, and the construction of a new transfer station in Westbrook.
shame shame shame…baldacci, peggy daigle and co-criminals in Old Town government to have compromised the residents of Old Town with the approval of mount juniper ridge
Also, New England Organics — which is Casella — makes terrible compost and mulch. As you would expect. Buy local.
If the corrupt Baldacci administration hadn’t turned the state’s solid waste hierarchy upside down, making landfills the first priority instead of the last, and then turned the state into a dumping ground for out of state trash, none of this would be happening. And it’s a shame to see the LePage administration going even further down Baldacci’s road. Shame, shame, shame, shame. The real decision makers on this fly over the state of Maine in their private jets, and they don’t even think people live here. Unfortunately, we do, and we and our children will be drinking and eating the results of their bad decisions for generations.
UPDATE Adding, AP writes “conversion of a state-owned landfill to a privately owned facility” but that’s JRL. There is only one. Thank you, Governors Baldacci AND LePage.