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Signs that Waste Management controls the waste energy of non-profit Green...
Who owns the waste heat going up Green Knights' stacks?On April 5, 2017, a dog and pony show was held at the Plainfield Township Fire Company Banquet Hall, and representatives of Synagro took questions...
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Resident calls out DEP for irregularities in Synagro biosolids bakery permit...
The meaning of the phrase "the fix is in" is pretty widely known. It implies that the process has been corrupted such that the outcome will not biased away from the criteria that should be evaluated....
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Synagro and Waste Management withdraw Slate Belt Heat Recovery Center land...
At last night's Board of Supervisors meeting, Synagro's program manager Jim Hecht, Counsel Mike Brennan and Counsel Elizabeth Witmer spent a half hour mealy mouthing the supervisors, as they attempted...
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Rural homeowners in Lehigh, Northampton, Monroe and Schuylkill counties dodge...
In the past week, all mention of the ill conceived "Slate Belt Heat Recovery Center" that Synagro proposed to be placed on land leased from Waste Management in Plainfield Township, has been removed...
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On September 19, 2019, Synagro withdrew its Land Development Plan for a crap bakery in Plainfield Township, as the Board of Supervisors considered a motion by its chairman to deny the plan. There were...
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Synagro announces abandonment of crap bakery proposed on Waste Management...
Ding dong, the witch is dead. Synagro announced in a letter addressed to Plainfield Township that it is totally abandoning its plan to locate a biosolids processing facility on Waste Management's...
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Grand Central Sanitary Landfill proposes Zoning Change so it can expand...
Now it is known for certain why Synagro gave up its fight to locate a biosolids plant on Waste Management's Grand Central Sanitary Landfill land in Plainfield Township - Waste Management has another...
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History of creation of Plainfield Township's Solid Waste Zoning District that...
Landfill is on land subdivided from a tract bought by three partnersIn the 1980's, Grand Central was not yet owned by Waste Management. The record shows that the landfill began as a dump in the...
View ArticleCitizens speak out on zoning change that would permit Grand Central Landfill...
At the March 11, 2020 Plainfield Township Board of Supervisors meeting, several citizens spoke at courtesy of the floor on the proposal by Grand Central Landfill to rezone land currently zoned Farm and...
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Grand Central Sanitary Landfill caused a home to become uninhabitable, then...
In 1962, Robert (Bobby) Perin, Frank Fiorot and Ernest (Ernie) Albanese partnered to purchase land on Teel's Hill, a portion of which included what today is Grand Central Sanitary Landfill.Teel's Hill...
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Plainfield Township Supervisors reject Waste Management request to expand...
At this evening's Board of Supervisors meeting, the Board voted 3-0-2 to not consider Waste Management's request to expand the Solid Waste Zoning District, so that the Grand Central Sanitary Landfill...
View ArticleHusband and wife activists post responses to Waste Management Grand Central...
This past week, the Express Times posted a lengthy opinion credited to a "Guest Columnist" that was authored by Waste Management's public relations employee Adrienne Fors, in which she claims that a...
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Upper Mount Bethel Township Supervisors seek to ram through zoning changes on...
In September 2019, a development group named River Point Logistics Center (Lou Pektor) purchased 725 acres of land in Upper Mount Bethel Township, in the I-2 and I-3 districts zoned for industrial...
View ArticleUpper Mount Bethel Township Engineer objects to elements of ordinance...
On September 8, 2020, UMBT Supervisor John Bermingham held a Q&A session on the River Pointe zoning ordinance and SALDO amendment, also known as "Version 10". In attendance were roughly 12...
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Upper Mount Bethel Supervisors are sued over River Pointe amendment, continue...
The Upper Mount Bethel Township Board of Supervisors are achieving a perfect score, if the objective is to be totally incompetent and appear to be corrupt. Previously, we covered that the BOS passed a...
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Upper Mount Bethel River Pointe Logistics Center zoning appeal status in...
On February 16, the first hearing was held in the matter of an appeal by citizens to overturn a zoning amendment (infamously known as the "Text Amendment") that the UMBT BOS passed, which severely...
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Example of why you must do due diligence when buying property - 3396 Green...
This blog focuses on projects that do not meet zoning. Let’s look at a property being sold for residential use, and see how an unsuspecting buyer in a hot market may commit to buying a property that...
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Supervisor candidates Bermingham and Friedman poised to successfully block...
In Upper Mount Bethel Township there were four candidates in the primary election, vying for two Board of Supervisor (BOS) seats, two Republicans and two Democrats.Republican incumbent candidate John...
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Two cross party write-in candidates defeat pro-corruption competitors in...
The ground shook in Upper Mount Bethel Township when hundreds of write-in ballots were canvassed in an off-year election. There were two Democrats and two Republicans on the ballot, running for two...
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Plainfield Township Voters Choose Between Two Bipartisan Slates in Supervisor...
In the primary election this year, as covered on this blog, Upper Mount Bethel Township Supervisor candidates John Bermingham (R) and David Friedman (D) joined forces, asking voters to vote for them...
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Anti-Solid Waste Expansion Candidates Win in Plainfield Township
In Plainfield Township, two candidates who oppose expanding the township's solid waste district, were elected on Tuesday. Glenn Borger (R) and Don Moore (D) received the top highest vote totals....
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Christmas Poo returns to Plainfield Township after 2 year absence - Nazareth...
In September 2019, after 2 years and 10 months of stonewalling Planning Commission requests for evidence of compliance with regulations, Synagro Technologies withdrew its proposal to develop a crap...
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At December 16 NBMA Board meeting, possibility that Plainfield Township farm...
The December 16 Nazareth Borough Municipal Authority meeting was well attended, with an audience filled as in November by Plainfield Township residents. At the November meeting, Chairman Kornos read...
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Yard signs objecting to Nazareth Borough Municipal Authority's plan to use...
If you drive through the center of Plainfield Township. you can not avoid seeing yard signs in opposition to NBMA's plan to dispose of 1000 wet tons of sewage sludge annually on the Hower Road farm...
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First Look at Proposed Area for Biosolids to be Applied to Preserved Farmland...
An August 19. 2021 memo from consultant Material Matters Inc to Nazareth Borough Municipal Authority detailing an "desktop" estimate of the regions of the ~80 acre preserved farm where Class B...
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