BEP Agenda 6/16/22 with links Juniper Ridge appeal of Increasing the importation and use of of Bulky Waste for cover

Juniper Ridge Landfill, Oversized Bulky Waste, Minor Revision, Appeal by Edward Spencer, S-020700-WD-CM-M (Decision) Staff Person: Susan Parmelee, Bureau of Remediation and Waste Mgmt

Link to BEP Boardmembers info

Sue Lessard mtg chair

Staff Memo 

Proposed Board order 

Dept licensing Decision appealed

AUDIO

* Mtg Opening Introductions Staff reports 6min  

* 2. DEP Bill Hinkle  permit writer response. 6min11sec

* 3a Ed Spencer testimony 24min

* 3b_Ed Spencer QA 13min 21sec

Welcome to the Penobscot Bay report  for June 25, 2022

Struggles up and down the bay, and where the activists roam

Here to reveal you a bit of the civil clashes, and the primacy of  economics over  Environmental Protection   in and around the bioregion of Maine's biggest Bay, 

Today we'll feature ed Spencer  Ed is a longtime land and water defense  activist who has been at the forefront of the broad movement Don't Waste ME a coalition of  peoples that has  recently achieved important legislative victory  in the struggle with Big Waste to end out of state  waste importation into Maine.

Well also take a look at NOAAs new Aquaculture initiative that is being fast tracked  From Fishing Grounds to Aquaculture Opportunity Areas is. aREN'T MARINE CONSERVATIONISTS TICKED OFF!

NOAA  is supposed to be reglating this industry. What are they doing promoting it?    We'll get to that a little later 

WAVES OR GULLS 

On June 16, 2022. Ed Spencer  came before the Maine Board of Environmental Protection, appealing, pro se, a Maine DEP decision to increase the amount of OBW  heading off to Juniper Ridge Landfill.

AKA Oversize Bulky Wastes, thise materials are our society's discarded mattresses, couches, tables, refrigerators, ovens, old TVs and toilets, crunched a bit,             Casella at the state landfill would spread them to cover the more finely ground wastes  that get  dumped at the site. when not in use. 

While these large pieces of junk are  only a small piece of Maine's  greater waste importation and application crises.  It helps one see how the Board of Environmental Protection process works, in a smaller tightly focused appeal. How the state DEP, and  the private trash company Casella  worked together against  Ed's appeal

 

As I said on the 16th End Spencer  was before the Board of Environmental Protection appealing DEP's Waste division's  decison  to increase the amount of oversized bulky waste (OBW)  that can be added to the Juniper Ridge waste mound.

We will start with the meeting introductions of the Board members and review of the last meeting 

Next the asst attorney general ? for the BEP or another official describes the appeal brought by Mr. Spencer  and their responses to it.

then the analyst for the BOard of envrionmental protectoin holds for , than 

FINALLY  Ed Spencer makes his case for rejecting the increased use of Bulky waste junk as a "cover" for the raw  working faces of the landfill

   

tJHERE'S MUCH MORE BUT WE  e are running out of time  and will save  for later review  on the Penobscot Bay Blog  

Tune in there to get the resdt of the story 

The attorney reprsesenting the  waste company giving their side of the story. 

Then the board's deliberattions and  their decision 

But until then remember persistence despite setbacks  can yield victory after Victory for Nature

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