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Monday, October 17, 2011
Westminster Common Council Members Frazier and Whitson weigh-in on incinerator and airport expansion
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Soundtrack Op-ed: “Waste Not! – Carroll” speaks out on MGA incinerator legislation
Soundtrack Op-ed: Don West, co-founder of “Waste Not! – Carroll” speaks out on Maryland General Assembly incinerator legislation
February 14, 2010
On Saturday, February 13, 2010, the Carroll County Times Opinion Page gave Senate Bill 228 a “thumbs down”. The bill, sponsored by Senator Alex Mooney, R – District 3 (Frederick and Washington Counties), prohibits the Maryland Department of the Environment from issuing a permit for the construction of an incinerator unless certain conditions are met.
Included in those conditions are that the incinerator is located in an area zoned for heavy industrial activity and that the site is at least 3 miles from a church, school, park, hospital or residential dwelling.
The CC Times asserts that Mooney was disingenuous in offering the legislation. Yet, Senator Mooney states he has received thousands of e-mails from his constituents in opposition to the Waste to Energy (WTE) incinerator that is proposed in his district. Rather than disingenuous, I view his legislation as an example of a senator responding to the needs and desires of those he serves.
The same column accuses Mooney of political posturing in an election year. That charge is easy enough to refute – Senator Mooney introduced a similar bill in last year’s legislative session. Last year was not an election year for County Commissioners in either Frederick or Carroll Counties.
Speaking of politicizing the issue, our own Commissioner Michael Zimmer ventured to Annapolis to testify against the same bill last week. He said he wants to make sure that Carroll County has an opportunity to reap the same benefits of WTE incineration as Baltimore City and Montgomery and Harford County. After examining this issue in some detail, I’m wondering what benefits Commissioner Zimmer has in mind?
Perhaps it’s all the money to be spent? With current projected construction costs upwards of $600,000,000, plus the financing and the anticipated operating expenses for the life span of the incinerator, we are facing a total cost to taxpayers in Carroll and Frederick in excess of 2 billion dollars!
Given current budgetary problems, I don’t see how anyone would view an expenditure of this magnitude a ‘benefit’. If you are interested in how bad it can get, look to Harrisburg, PA, where the city is nearly bankrupt following a botched upgrade to their incinerator.
Another ‘benefit’ of WTE incineration that proponents like to cite is the electrical energy the facility will generate. What they don’t say is that the incinerator is in reality a poor source of power, generating only about 1/10 of the electricity of a typical electrical plant. Also, any power generated goes first to the operation of the facility. Then Frederick County, as majority partner, gets second priority for the power.
Finally, Carroll County can get what’s left, providing we pay for it. That’s right, we will pay for the electricity generated by burning the trash that we pay to have burned in the incinerator that we are paying for! At the Dickerson facility in Montgomery County, financial records show that money from the sale of electricity doesn’t even offset service on the bonds issued for the initial construction of that incinerator; operating costs are borne by the residents and taxpayers.
In fact, if you compare the energy saved by recycling or composting waste destined for the incinerator versus the energy provided from its combustion, incineration is an enormous Waste of Energy!
Proponents of the incinerator would like you to think that with an incinerator burning our trash, we will no longer need landfills. This is false. First of all, as much as 20 – 25% of our solid waste can’t be burned. Most yard waste and construction & demolition refuse are two examples - other disposal methods will need to be used.
Plus the residual ash from the incinerator will need to be dealt with. Some propose that using the ash as a daily cover at the landfill is appealing. Montgomery County, however, pays to haul its ash to Virginia, where it is handled as a hazardous waste, at an additional cost of several million dollars per year. I’m not seeing any great benefit there, either.
Finally, proponents like to say that emissions from the Waste to Energy incinerator will be closely monitored. Carroll and Frederick’s agreement allows for the monitoring of 12 regulated emissions. Unfortunately, a recent report from the MDE for the Harford County incinerator identified nearly 200 toxins released! If that’s the level of monitoring we can expect at our proposed incinerator, I don’t think I would want my family to live 30 miles from such a facility.
An editorial in the CCT’s the following day accuses Senator Mooney of a “Not In My Backyard” motivation for proposing his legislation. Superficially, I can see where that could be argued, except that the adoption of his bill would mean that nobody in Maryland would have an incinerator within 3 miles of their home, school or church.
Perhaps it’s more accurately portrayed as NIABY, “ Not In Anybody’s Backyard”. For that, Mooney’s attempt at regulating future incinerator locations should be applauded, not ridiculed.
Some may view Senator Mooney’s legislation as an intrusion of state government into a local issue. However, when our local elected officials ignore the views of their constituents, and more importantly, the facts and ramifications of their decisions, seeking the assistance of another level of our government is our right and obligation.
Don H. West
Westminster
The writer is a co-founder of Waste Not! - Carroll
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Admin Letters to KevinDayhoffNet, Enviro Solid Waste Man, Enviro Solid Waste Man Recycling, Enviro Solid Waste to Energy
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Recent Explore Carroll articles and columns by Kevin Dayhoff
And a letter to the editor in which I was mentioned…
High winds in Sykesville might not be a twister
Published July 27, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Eldersburg Eagle
SYKESVILLE — Strong winds whipped through Carroll County’s rolling hills Sunday evening was enough to cause damage to homes, but the National Weather Service says that it did not appear to be a tornado. The storm downed trees and power lines, damaged cars ... ...
Lighting the faces of children, and a dark day for taxation
Published July 26, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
... of state and national government, we may be feeling "very blue over the outcome" for many years. When he is not feeling blue over taxes, Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at kevindayhoff AT gmail.com, or visit him at http://www.westminstermarylandonline.net/. ...
Hoby Wolf advocates for things the county has already done
Published July 26, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
... on this project. They have. On Feb. 26, 2007, Commissioner Michael Zimmer visited Harford County's facility (along with Eagle columnist Kevin Dayhoff.) Then, the board traveled to York, Pa., on April 30, 2007, to view that operation. They have also been to ... ...
Westminster council meeting details city improvements and comprehensive plan
Published July 25, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
... for the annual Christmas parade. With that, council president Damian Halstad gaveled the meeting to a close and folks quickly paraded out the door.
Jackson's death created a wave of empathy in Westminster
Published July 19, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle
... our citizens on hearing the mournful intelligence of Jackson's death ..." When he is not listening to the music of the "Jackson 5," Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at kevindayhoff AT gmail.com, or visit him at http://www.westminstermarylandonline.net/....
Hampstead man arrested for setting Greens Apartments fire
Published July 13, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle
damage is estimated at $450,000, according to fire marshals. Kevin Dayhoff contributed to this report....
DAYHOFF: 11th Air Cavalry Troop memorial recalls service of Carroll natives
Published July 11, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
... to help honor these men and their families, as well those others named on the memorial who paid so dearly in the service of their community and nation.
Bringing Corbit's Charge, and Douglass, back to Westminster
Published July 5, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
... for his age," Crutcher responded that Douglass has "rested a lot" over the years. When he's not traveling back in time to the 1800s…
DAYHOFF: Margaret Mitchell wrote what she knew; the rest is gone with the wind
Published July 2, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
... And that is all I know for right now. Hope you and your family have a great Fourth of July weekend.
Westminster was all abuzz for the great fly roundup of 1914
Published June 28, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
... reminds me that it was Groucho Marx who once said, "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." When he is not swatting flies…visit him at http://www.westminstermarylandonline.net/....
DAYHOFF: Hoffa Field and the Sheathing of the Sword
Published June 23, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle
... . Lightner and the June 1922 American Sentinel newspaper article have left us with an extensive and fascinating account of the “The Sheathing of the Sword.”
'Year without summer' killed crops ... and created a monster
Published June 21, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle
... village folk that it's not a bad idea to keep a torch handy on these cool summer nights. When he is not playing with laboratory-harnessed lightning…
Historic Blue Ridge College bell dedicated In Union Bridge
Published June 20, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
UNION BRIDGE — Several hundred folks braved threatening weather June 20 to witness the unveiling and dedication of the historic 1900 Blue Ridge College bell in Lehigh Square, the original site of the college which had thrived in Union Bridge from 1898 to ... ...
When city got 'sole' in the 1920s, it was cause for a celebration
Published June 14, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
... be the guest speaker. There will be a retirement ceremony for worn flags. Guests may bring old flags for retirement. When he is not waving the flag…
Remember when you could walk to work in Westminster?
Published June 7, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
When he's not on a "walk-about" in Westminster…
Company H: from the Frizellburg greenhouses to the sands of Omaha Beach
Published June 3, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
... (have) come a long way from the old parade field in Frizellburg.” Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster.
Dayhoff: New councilmember tackles alleged hit and run driver
Published June 1, 2009 by Westminster Eagle, Carroll Eagle
... Westminster city police arrived and took control of the situation The accident is under investigation. All in a day’s work. Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster.
In 1925, planting the seeds of employment, production
Published May 31, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
When he's not roaming the streets of historic Westminster looking for old factories…
Celebration of memory and change
Published May 26, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
This year’s Westminster Memorial Day ceremonies witnessed many changes over the past — although the solemn tradition of 142 years continued. On Memorial Day the normal hustle and bustle of downtown Westminster paused to remember fallen veterans, and ... ...
Dayhoff: Maryland National Guard Company H, had its beginnings in the flower business
Published May 22, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
... We are deeply indebted to those who fought and died to give us the unalienable right to live free and cherish liberty in the pursuit of happiness. Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster.
20090728 Recent Explore Carroll articles columns by KED
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Carroll commissioners approve pact to join Frederick in $500M incinerator project
By Charles Schelle cschelle@patuxent.com
Carroll’s Board of County Commissioners will move forward with plans to join Frederick County in building the first waste-to-energy trash incinerator in the United States in more than 13 years.
Commissioners Dean Minnich and Michael Zimmer voted on Thursday to approve a resolution that accepts Frederick County’s invitation to build a joint, 1,500-ton-per-day capacity waste-to-energy trash incinerator at the Ballenger Creek/McKinney Industrial Center, which is located beside the Monocacy River and Monocacy National Battlefield in Frederick.
Commission President Julia Gouge, who in the past had talked favorably about composting as an alternative to an incinerator, was absent for the vote.
Carroll County would pay 40 percent of the cost of the estimated $501 million incinerator — or about $200 million — while Frederick County would pay 60 percent.
See more of this story at ... http://www.explorecarroll.com/news/3086/ceincineratorresolution0702/
20090702 sdosm Carroll Commissioners approve WTE pact with Frederick
Friday, May 15, 2009
Climate Change: Garbage Gets Fresh Look as Source of Energy By JEFFREY BALL
Related: Enviro Solid Waste Man
Enviro Solid Waste Man Recycling
Enviro Solid Waste to Energy
MAY 15, 2009
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Times change, and yesterday's environmental problem starts to look like today's solution. That is what is happening with trash.
Over the past two decades, the U.S. has shut down hundreds of pollution-spewing waste incinerators on the belief that burning detritus was a bigger environmental sin than burying it. Today, most American garbage is sent to landfills, some spanning hundreds of acres miles from the cities that generate the refuse. New York City, which tosses about eight million tons of nonindustrial trash each year, trucks much of it to big landfills in states such as Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Jeffrey Ball/The Wall Street Journal.
Covanta's Hempstead, N.Y., plant burns nearly a million tons of trash a year.
Landfills have been convenient. But they are falling out of favor as improved technology and changing environmental priorities start to upend the old thinking about garbage.
Past orthodoxy held that burning trash was bad because it spewed toxic substances into the air. In an era when the big environmental threat was localized pollution like smog and cancer-causing plumes, landfills seemed the lesser evil.
Dirty air is still a concern, but now it has been eclipsed by fears of global climate change. In that calculus of environmental harm, recent research suggests, burning trash is better than burying it.
The appeal of most modern incinerators is that they don't only torch trash. They also use the heat from the incineration to boil water, which creates steam, which in turn generates electricity. Yet trash incineration produces just 0.4% of the country's electricity. Even if all U.S. garbage were burned, it wouldn't produce anywhere near enough power to meet the country's energy needs. But as concern about climate change grows, any renewable source of energy -- even a pile of garbage -- seems appealing.
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Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A9
Further Reading
The best way to deal with trash is to produce less of it. The next-best way is to recycle more of it, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. But that still leaves loads of trash, and burning it to produce electricity is better than burying it in a landfill, the EPA says. Incinerating a ton of trash emits at least 35% less greenhouse gas and yields 10 times as much electricity as burying it, according to a recent study by EPA researchers.
Today, the U.S. burns 13% of its trash; it sends 54% of its trash to landfills and recycles 33% of it. Other countries, particularly countries in Europe that have less available space for landfills and fewer domestic fossil-fuel resources, burn more of their trash, according to a study by the European Environment Agency.
A bill drafted by Congressional Democrats would give incineration, known as "waste-to-energy," a boost. The bill would require utilities to produce 20% of their electricity from renewable-energy sources and energy-efficiency improvements by 2020. The bill's current version defines waste-to-energy as one form of renewable power, along with sources such as the wind and sun.
Many environmentalists worry that encouraging trash incineration will impinge on recycling efforts. A 1997 report by the Natural Resource Defense Council's Allen Hershkowitz argues that recycling rates could be dramatically improved with more effort. A 2008 study by trash consultant Eileen Brettler Berenyi concluded that trash incineration isn't restraining recycling. Her study, partly funded by the trash-incineration industry, found that U.S. communities with waste-to-energy plants tend to have higher-than-average recycling rates.
Read the entire article here: Climate Change: Garbage Gets Fresh Look as Source of Energy By JEFFREY BALL
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124233937494621157.html
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Frederick Co Commissioners suspend incinerator bids
April 29, 2009
Frederick Co Commissioners suspend incinerator bids; will explore other options. Carroll Commissioners to discuss options Thursday morning.
From: Commissioners suspend incinerator plans Originally published April 29, 2009 By Meg Tully News-Post Staff:
The Frederick County Commissioners are suspending deliberations on a proposed trash incinerator, and will focus instead on alternative disposal options.
The commissioners accepted bids on the project earlier this year, and appeared to have narrowed those down to a preferred site and contractor to build and run the incinerator.
But they voted 4-1 on Tuesday to suspend that process. Commissioner John L. Thompson Jr. voted against the motion.
Also known as waste-to-energy, the trash incinerator was intended to be a cheaper, long-term answer to the county's shrinking landfill space.
[…]
Commissioner Kai Hagen, an outspoken opponent of the incinerator, said he was willing to explore using a waste-to-energy plant outside the county, if it meant the commissioners would suspend the bid process for a Frederick plant.
But he said that he believes other options, including increased recycling, composting and waste reduction efforts, are the best solutions.
[…]
More: http://tinyurl.com/dand5r
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=89586
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Ay caramba.
Excerpted from: April 16, 2008 How to Make Trash Go Away Kevin E. Dayhoff
Tomorrow the Carroll County Board of Commissioners will deliberate in open session and – hopefully – make a decision regarding the offer from Frederick County to join forces to make 1,100 tons of trash a day go away.
Bear in mind, a further review of my files indicates that this is my fourth go-round regarding what to do with trash in Carroll County in 41 years – going back to 1967.
It was a few short years after the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 that trash really hit the fan in Carroll County.
It has not been a pretty picture ever since. It was back in those days that the county began to take over or close a number of unpermitted de-facto landfills – and then proceed to open more.
Waste-to-energy was rejected once in 1984 and twice in the mid-1990s. Co-composting failed to get the nod in the late 1990s.
Since 1965, every landfill, except one, in which Carroll County has had some degree of participation remains to this day under consent decrees with the Maryland Department of the Environment for the necessary mitigation of environmental hazards. Currently there is no apparent relief on the horizon for the costs to the environment or the financial costs to landfilling.
Back in the first go-round in the 1972 time frame, many of us have felt that the best management approach to solid waste was source reduction and recycling.
It would take 18 long years to get the Maryland Recycling Act passed in 1988. That legislation required a recycling rate of 20 percent.
[…]
Related:
March 6, 2008
Making Trash Go Away – Part 2
Kevin E. Dayhoff
The February 26th joint meeting between Frederick and Carroll County over how to make trash go away came after two years of discussions and deliberations resulting from the Frederick County commissioners’ adoption of Resolution 06-05, on February 16, 2006.
March 5, 2008
Making Trash Go Away – Part One
Kevin E. Dayhoff
On February 26, the Frederick and Carroll County commissioners met to discuss how to make a combined 1,100 tons of trash-a-day go away.
20090429 SDOSM Frederick Co Commissioners suspend incinerator bids
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Carroll County Commissioners to get briefing on incinerator, cost
News Briefs
Posted on http://www.explorecarroll.com/ 2/06/09
Carroll County Public Works Director Mike Evans said this week that the deal for a proposed waste-to-energy incinerator to be used by Carroll and Frederick counties is still "attractive" to the county, even though the cost of the project has risen from $332 million to $527 million.
That's because Carroll County's share, he said, will be 40 percent of that -- and hasn't really risen since the initial projection.
Evans said Carroll's County's share of the costs do not work out to a straight 40 percent of the projected $527 million. He added that under this latest proposal, Carroll's projected costs have not risen, but appear to actually come in slightly lower.
"The numbers get skewed pretty quickly," he said. "When you look at it from our perspective, the numbers are still very attractive."
Evans will brief the Board of County Commissioners on the project update at the board's regular meeting Thursday, Feb. 12, in Westminster.
The briefing follows a presentation last week in Frederick County by Wheelabrator Technologies, a company slated to build and operate the waste-to-energy incinerator in Frederick County.
The facility, if built, would be used by both counties.
Evans said no action will be required from the Carroll Commissioners on Feb. 12 in terms of moving ahead with the project. For one thing, the Frederick County Commissioners have not yet decided whether to accept Wheelabrator's proposal and move forward with the project.
If Frederick County does approve the project, it must then formally "invite" Carroll to join it in going forward with the planning and permitting phase "and find out if we can get a permit," said Evans.
He estimated that part of the process alone will take about two years. The site for the incinerator is slated to be in Frederick County, although no location has been formally announced.
-- Bob Allen
http://explorecarroll.com/news/2258/news-briefs/
20090206 SDOSM Commissioners to get briefing on incinerator, cost
Thursday, February 5, 2009
The Tentacle: WTE Derangement by Norman M. Covert February 5, 2009
The Honorable Mr. Hagen took a roundhouse blow from The Gazette two editions ago in a story, yet to be reported by the local Daily Blather. The affable Mr. Hagen was guilty, reporter Sherry Greenfield recounted, of using his MacIntosh™ computer to scold his colleagues by email regarding the WTE.
Mr. Hagen wrote to colleagues and bantered with private citizens saying that county staff and a professional consultant had given them information regarding the WTE that amounted to “scientific fraud.”
Huge words for a rookie politician, who may not understand that words have meaning. When you write them down and hand them out, as in an email, they last forever. They are the ultimate example of recycling gone bad. Before you hit, “Send,” stew over it a bit.
It was a miscalculation by Mr. Hagen, whose winning electoral base may have disappeared, leaving him a minority constituency of “Groans.” His opposition campaign, including a cyber chat room, has yielded little information of substance other than a falling sky, like the fabled Chicken Little claimed.
Commissioner President Jan H. Gardner has gone the extra mile with her colleague, even to the point of accompanying him and Commissioner David Gray on a “fact-finding” trip to Boulder, CO, in June 2008. President Jan even dragged along Michael G. Marschner, director of the county Division of Utilities and Solid Waste Management.
Read the entire column here: WTE Derangement by Norman M. Covert February 5, 2009
http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=2999
20090205 TT WTE Derangement by Norman M. Covert Feb 5 2009
Saturday, May 3, 2008
20080503 Links to related materials on Carroll County Maryland’s future solid waste management decisions…
The 3-minute interview: Robin Davidov
Matthew Santoni, The Examiner 2008-04-21
Why have Carroll and Harford had such different reactions to plans for new waste-to-energy plants?
The difference, I think, is that
How does waste-to-energy compare to increased recycling, which is being discussed as an alternative in Carroll?
Our first steps are to reduce, reuse and recycle. But not everything can be recycled. To those who say, “Let’s recycle more instead of burning it for energy,” it’s not an either/or.
How do you respond to citizens’ worries about the facilities producing greenhouse gases and pollutants such as dioxins?
Waste-to-energy plants actually emit less greenhouse gas than trucking and landfilling garbage because landfills produce methane, which is 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Dioxins are really pervasive. We’re pretty sure — not 100 percent — but pretty sure they’re destroyed at really high temperatures.
Examiner
Members of environmental panel quit over incinerator vote
Limo group: Unlicensed drivers ‘everywhere’ during prom season
3-year-old boy critically injured in lawnmower accident.
NAACP calls for statewide rally to protest killings by police
Public safety positions funded
The 3-minute interview: John B. Townsend II
The 3-minute interview: Esther Johnson
The 3-minute interview: Sandra Quel
The 3-minute interview: James Williams
The 3-minute interview: Vaughn Bennett
The 3-minute interview: Barry Levinson
The 3-minute interview: Greg Hamm
The 3-minute interview: George Jones
The 3-minute interview: Natalie Eddington
The 3-minute interview: Ann Compton
State Hispanic population growing; officials rethink outreach programs
Hispanic population in Md., Va.
Public pressure prompts change in natural gas project
Sewage sludge critics urge ban on spreading
Madame Tussauds cuts ticket prices, citing economic factors
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Links to related materials on Carroll County Maryland’s future solid waste management decisions… Related to: 20080331 Future of Solid Waste Public Hearing Dates Released
20080317 Recent columns on the future of Solid Waste Management in Carroll and Frederick Counties
20080309 The Sunday Carroll Eagle: “History will know us by our trash”
April 16, 2008
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Tomorrow the Carroll County Board of Commissioners will deliberate in open session and – hopefully – make a decision regarding the offer from
In The Tentacle:
March 6, 2008
Kevin E. Dayhoff
The February 26th joint meeting between
March 5, 2008
Making Trash Go Away – Part One
Kevin E. Dayhoff
On February 26, the
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Related: Environmentalism Solid Waste Management or
Environmentalism Solid Waste Management Recycling or
Environmentalism Solid Waste Management Waste to Energy
And:
19880900 To Burn or Not to Burn an interview with Neil Seldman
19960900 The Five Most Dangerous Myths About Recycling
“Pay as you throw” By Carrie Ann Knauer, Times Staff Writer Sunday, August 12, 2007
20070912 Carroll County EAC votes to promote recycling by Carrie Ann Knauer
20071112 Frederick County seeks Carroll participation in trash incinerator
Carroll County Times editorial from November 14, 2007: “Talk some trash with the county”
20080318 Frederick News Post Tourism Council opposes incinerator by Karen Gardner
20080331 Future of Solid Waste Public Hearing Dates Released
http://ccgovernment.carr.org/ccg/pubworks/sw-future/default.asp
Board of
Future of Solid Waste Dates Released
Commissioner Discussion on WTE Shared Facility March 28, 2008
Future of Solid Waste Options March 10, 2008, public discussion
Future of Solid Waste Options March 5, 2008, public discussion
Joint meeting with Frederick County Board of County Commissioners
February 26, 2008
Presentation on home composting February 28, 2008
Economics of a shared Waste-to-Energy facility February 21, 2008
Presentation of recycling policy February 14, 2008
Discussion of integrated materials management strategy November 19, 2007
Report on recycling and update on solid waste August 14, 2007
Environmental Advisory Council Meetings
County's electronic recycling March 11, 2008
Food waste composting January 8, 2008
Council priorities review December 11, 2007
Presentation on composting November 13, 2007
Resource assessment, continuation of EAC discussion on waste management October 9, 2007
EAC discussion on waste management September 11, 2007
Pay per throw, Recycling August 14, 2007
Municipal waste options July 10, 2007
Waste To Energy Option for Carroll County
U.S. Cool Counties Climate Stabilization Declaration
Waste to Energy: Investment/Expense/Income
Environmental Advisory Council Recommendations on Addressing
Solid Waste in Carroll County
Environmental Advisory Council Recommendations (DPW's presentation)
Multiple Pathway Health Risk Assessment
Municipal Waste Combustion Ash, Soil, and Leachate Characterization
Carroll County Waste Reduction, Recycling and Buy Recycled Policy
Resource Assessment (Richard Anthony report)
Integrated Materials (Waste) Management System
Carroll County, Maryland Solid Waste Management Options (R.W. Beck report)
20080421 The 3-minute interview: Robin Davidov by Matthew Santoni, The Examiner
The 3-minute interview: Robin Davidov
Matthew Santoni, The Examiner 2008-04-21
Why have Carroll and Harford had such different reactions to plans for new waste-to-energy plants?
The difference, I think, is that
How does waste-to-energy compare to increased recycling, which is being discussed as an alternative in Carroll?
Our first steps are to reduce, reuse and recycle. But not everything can be recycled. To those who say, “Let’s recycle more instead of burning it for energy,” it’s not an either/or.
How do you respond to citizens’ worries about the facilities producing greenhouse gases and pollutants such as dioxins?
Waste-to-energy plants actually emit less greenhouse gas than trucking and landfilling garbage because landfills produce methane, which is 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Dioxins are really pervasive. We’re pretty sure — not 100 percent — but pretty sure they’re destroyed at really high temperatures.
Examiner
Members of environmental panel quit over incinerator vote
Limo group: Unlicensed drivers ‘everywhere’ during prom season
3-year-old boy critically injured in lawnmower accident.
NAACP calls for statewide rally to protest killings by police
Public safety positions funded
The 3-minute interview: John B. Townsend II
The 3-minute interview: Esther Johnson
The 3-minute interview: Sandra Quel
The 3-minute interview: James Williams
The 3-minute interview: Vaughn Bennett
The 3-minute interview: Barry Levinson
The 3-minute interview: Greg Hamm
The 3-minute interview: George Jones
The 3-minute interview: Natalie Eddington
The 3-minute interview: Ann Compton
State Hispanic population growing; officials rethink outreach programs
Hispanic population in Md., Va.
Public pressure prompts change in natural gas project
Sewage sludge critics urge ban on spreading
Madame Tussauds cuts ticket prices, citing economic factors
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Links to related materials on Carroll County Maryland’s future solid waste management decisions… Related to: 20080331 Future of Solid Waste Public Hearing Dates Released
20080317 Recent columns on the future of Solid Waste Management in Carroll and Frederick Counties
20080309 The Sunday Carroll Eagle: “History will know us by our trash”
April 16, 2008
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Tomorrow the Carroll County Board of Commissioners will deliberate in open session and – hopefully – make a decision regarding the offer from
In The Tentacle:
March 6, 2008
Kevin E. Dayhoff
The February 26th joint meeting between
March 5, 2008
Making Trash Go Away – Part One
Kevin E. Dayhoff
On February 26, the
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Related: Environmentalism Solid Waste Management or
Environmentalism Solid Waste Management Recycling or
Environmentalism Solid Waste Management Waste to Energy
And:
19880900 To Burn or Not to Burn an interview with Neil Seldman
19960900 The Five Most Dangerous Myths About Recycling
“Pay as you throw” By Carrie Ann Knauer, Times Staff Writer Sunday, August 12, 2007
20070912 Carroll County EAC votes to promote recycling by Carrie Ann Knauer
20071112 Frederick County seeks Carroll participation in trash incinerator
Carroll County Times editorial from November 14, 2007: “Talk some trash with the county”
20080318 Frederick News Post Tourism Council opposes incinerator by Karen Gardner
20080331 Future of Solid Waste Public Hearing Dates Released
http://ccgovernment.carr.org/ccg/pubworks/sw-future/default.asp
Board of
Future of Solid Waste Dates Released
Commissioner Discussion on WTE Shared Facility March 28, 2008
Future of Solid Waste Options March 10, 2008, public discussion
Future of Solid Waste Options March 5, 2008, public discussion
Joint meeting with Frederick County Board of County Commissioners
February 26, 2008
Presentation on home composting February 28, 2008
Economics of a shared Waste-to-Energy facility February 21, 2008
Presentation of recycling policy February 14, 2008
Discussion of integrated materials management strategy November 19, 2007
Report on recycling and update on solid waste August 14, 2007
Environmental Advisory Council Meetings
County's electronic recycling March 11, 2008
Food waste composting January 8, 2008
Council priorities review December 11, 2007
Presentation on composting November 13, 2007
Resource assessment, continuation of EAC discussion on waste management October 9, 2007
EAC discussion on waste management September 11, 2007
Pay per throw, Recycling August 14, 2007
Municipal waste options July 10, 2007
Waste To Energy Option for Carroll County
U.S. Cool Counties Climate Stabilization Declaration
Waste to Energy: Investment/Expense/Income
Environmental Advisory Council Recommendations on Addressing
Solid Waste in Carroll County
Environmental Advisory Council Recommendations (DPW's presentation)
Multiple Pathway Health Risk Assessment
Municipal Waste Combustion Ash, Soil, and Leachate Characterization
Carroll County Waste Reduction, Recycling and Buy Recycled Policy
Resource Assessment (Richard Anthony report)
Integrated Materials (Waste) Management System
Carroll County, Maryland Solid Waste Management Options (R.W. Beck report)