Right now there's a Bill in Annapolis sponsored by Norm Conway called HB-1506 North East Waste Disposal Authority. I know, so what, right?
Here's your SO WHAT.
The Bill would subject Wicomico County into an annual contract with the state in which Wicomico County Taxpayers will have to pony up $100,000.00 A YEAR just to JOIN this organization to IMPORT trash from other states to our Landfill.
WHY? Because Rick Pollitt has already sent out for RFP's to companies interested in building a $70,000,000.00 Plant to incinerate trash in Wicomico County. The County does NOT bring in enough trash to make this system pay for itself, so the Executive is cutting a deal with Conway and the State to join this organization to import trash.
One thing comes to mind besides the fact that this is complete BS. What happens if Sussex County Delaware decides they want to get into the trash business, or any other surrounding Maryland County.
So why is this so QUIET? Why haven't you heard about this from the rest of the Main Stream media, because it's an election year.
Worcester County Landfill was running in the black. They raised their tipping fees and Ocean City started exporting their trash to New Jersey. Now the Worcester Landfill is running in the RED and taxpayers will have to subsidize the difference.
In Harrisburg PA. they are on the verge of bankruptcy because they experimented with a Waste Energy Plant that is failing miserably.
Rick Pollitt and Norm Conway have their proposed plant on the fast track and need to be slowed down immediately. The system they are suggesting is as unproven as Salisbury's original Waste Water Treatment Plant, HOW SCARY IS THAT!
Your votes AGAIN need to go to Bob Culver and Carl Anderton to STOP such frivolous Bills.
I believe where the new PD is was a incineration plant at one time. It worked well but was shut down...
ReplyDeleteWhy are we building another one?
I can't wait to vote these two a** holes out! Norm Conway is a big disappointment to our county and Rick Pollitt should never have been elected in the first place. He has RUINED Wicomico County!! Hopefully that bill will not get passed before the election!
ReplyDeleteI read about this "project" and in order for it to work properly it will have to burn plastics (they contain petroleum) and metals to generate the heat needed, cardboard and "regular" trash will not work.
ReplyDeleteIs this why they push for recycling? Just to burn? Great now we can all breathe those chemicals together.
Wicomico County barely recycles, why should we all of the sudden get everyone else's trash. Just another reason for Salisbury University Graduates to move the fudge out of Salisbury/Wicomico.
ReplyDeletelmao silly rabbits, tricks are for kids...
ReplyDeleteAnd you must be a kid because you are being tricked... you're to stupid to see any of this...
Joe is right, it was your election to lose, even tho that was for SBY not WICO...
Not only will we have to put this trash somewhere, it will stick and pollute the air... SO with perdue position delaware air now, and soon wicomico will poison our air, what the heck else can they do to take our money and kill us at the same time?
but isn't it funny how they will have to PAY TO IMPORT TRASH?
Again, this is all engineered to take your wealth... Prove to me I am wrong...
Just follow the money. More than the trash stinks in this 'deal."
ReplyDeleteConway needs to be voted out. When you get right down to it what has he done. Absolutely not a thing. The state is swimming in debt. Does anyone really want this uncertainty in the next generations future? These democrats are nothings. Look at all the inner cities that are cess pools of crime and poverty. The one thing they all have in common is generations of democrats at the helm. Democrat policies do not work, have never worked-there is no debating this fact. It's time to show each and everyone of them the door. They can't keep on ruining the lives of other people's children and that's all they have done and will continue to do unless they all are voted out. Don't think for one second they care about the children. They don't. They don't even care about their own otherwise they would cut out the spending.
ReplyDeleteYou can now see the heap at the landfill from Nanticoke Road, at the section at Levin Dashiell Road. Somebody cleared some trees so you can see the landfill from miles away, what a dump.
ReplyDeleteMr. Strausburg, STOP sending in anonymous comments. I am only a phone call away and you have my number.
ReplyDeleteThis Site will not be hijacked by anonymous elected officials or their minions.
9:08: I am a recent SU grad that took a job working here. Happy to live here, quite proud of this town (and the County for that matter.) I will right this ship. Maybe I should run..
ReplyDeleteWho must finance the 70 Million?
ReplyDeleteif $100K per year is the only offset we must budget.. this sounds like a good deal to me..
There will certainly be a benefit vs a landfill... the prevailing Westerlies will push the emissions off shore.
But I agree with Joe..the secrecy that goes on from both the County and the Mayor's office is just those two thinking they have a right to follow the Obama template of covert non transparency.
To me is a behavior that is both disgusting and a reprehensible method of leadership..makes me wonder about lobbying efforts and payoffs?
I am not Mr. Strausburg, Joe.
ReplyDeletePlease post your phone number so I can (prank) call you.
Has there been any discussion of this and if so, what do Conway and Pollitt give as justification for this approach?
ReplyDeleteThe city is Fd and now the county these politicians need to be taken out back...if you get my drift.
ReplyDelete9:37, OK, let's say your right. Let's say the County won't have to pony up the $70,000,000.00+ for this Plant.
ReplyDeleteLet's say one of Rick Pollitt's campaign contributors or buddy's puts up the money and they ultimately FAIL. Let's say the system doesn't work. Hmmmmm, this is starting to stink like Salisbury's Waste Water Treatment Plant already.
Now the taxpayers are stuck with the system and guess what, Pollitt and those responsible for creating such a load of crap are no longer in Office. Hmmmm, starting to stink like another public official I recall not too long ago.
Rick Pollitt is NOT an experienced businessman. He's a life long politician who doesn't know his head from his ass when it comes to business.
I, nor should any other County taxpayer, should fall for this crap. It is being ramrodded through under the table because it's a scam, period.
No matter what anyone says, it is not a proven system and it needs to be stopped immediately.
What INDUSTRY or JOBS have Rick Pollitt and Norm Conway brought to Wicomico County?????
Enough Said. Vote for Bob Culver and I can assure you that will turn around immediately.
That is, unless they get to the electronic ballots again.
9:41, Well, there's already a Bill in Annapolis, (as I mentioned in the article) NO ONE knew about. The Bill would place Wic. Co. in a select group to pony up $100,000.00 a year to bring trash in from other states and counties. Have YOU heard this come up at ANY Council Meeting???? I sure haven't.
ReplyDeleteYET THERE'S A BILL IN ANNAPOLIS ALREADY?????
Joe, why would WE PAY for other states/counties to bring their trash here? Shouldn't THEY PAY US?
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to read about this next week in the Daily Times. Ha ha ha.
ReplyDeleteAnother slick trick by Rick (and Norm).
ReplyDeleteWill this make our homes stink like Baltimore?
ReplyDeleteThis project sounds like something that Somerset county tried to do a few years back. The EDC tried to sell it as a big jobs program. Thankfully the citizens of Somerset stood up and defeated it. I cannot understand why anyone would want trash imported into their county, it just makes no sense at all except for those that will line their pockets.
ReplyDeleteConway is on the wrong side of just about every issue, for the life of me I cannot understand how he keeps getting reelected.
10:07, It's called, ELECTRONIC BALLOTS.
ReplyDeleteDidn't the daily times send a reporter to Annapolis to cover all of these bills. I've read nothing about this. Damn liberals.
ReplyDeleteThis will just add another reason to move out of here, Wicomico county and Slimsbury is a DUMP!!
ReplyDeletePoliticians are always looking for ways to get more money. They don't really care about the environment or anything else in my opinion. If they thought this project was a good thing we would have heard about it. Fact is that we haven't heard about it because they know that most people would not approve of it.
ReplyDeleteI think your right!
DeleteMaybe we need to get outraged about electronic ballots also.
ReplyDeleteI have to give you credit Joe. When you say your going to deliver a big story you sure do come through. Thanks for the heads up.
ReplyDeleteand where exactly do they plan on putting this incinerator?
ReplyDelete10:25, At the Landfill.
ReplyDeleterecycling doesn't work. some of the landfills have to transport their recyclables to salisbury to be processed and it is too expensive .so they just dispose of it at their main trash pile. so why recycle if it is only going to end up in the landfill anyway?
ReplyDeleteWhy are'nt the enviromentalists speaking up,they always do when it comes to the poultry industry or developers!
ReplyDeleteSomebody getting paid...
DeleteUnrelated... Wanted you to publish 2 service members are supposed to fly in to the sby airport at 5 today. They have been gone for almost 1 year!
ReplyDeleteJoe 9:37 here-- there is no doubt that I will vote for Culver.
ReplyDeleteI was just outlining the Costs Vs Benefits of a working project in the same manner I know that you do when you decide to invest in one of your many ideas.
Hey I voted for you and wished you won..but 100K$ a year is a small sum considering the net jobs gained vs the Landfill that will probably continue to operate in some other capacity.
The Water Plant is what it is. I understand the legacy Barrie left Salisbury holding.. but that is not an excuse to coil into a fetal position for the next couple of decades. There are better reasons and your article has fostered a decent debate.
After he gets bounced from the legislature this fall Norm can run the trash plant and be a triple dipper at the public trough.
ReplyDeletePeople, please wake up. This is exactly what they want to do with the eastern shore. The Chesapeake Bay is dead. It's not cost effective to clean it up. Therefore, the only good use for the eastern shore is to turn it into a dumping ground for the east cost. Believe this to be the future for the eastern shore. The rich can afford to leave.
ReplyDeleteShaefer was right - the Eastern Shore is the s---house side of Maryland - because that is how the other side has always treated it!
ReplyDeleteRemember the great economic boost Somerset was to get from building a prison there? Wow, Somerset is so prosperous now, not! Then there is what that prison did to Salisbury! Inmates and students, such a great mix!
The Delmarva Peninsula already has one of the highest rates of cancer. Now they are going to add this? I also agree with the folks who asked why others would not be paying us to take their trash.
This stinks, literally and otherwise.
Prisons, landfills, trash, wind mills, drones, is this the best the eastern shore can do? If we accepted all of these things we would still have high unemployment, no jobs for the locals, etc. Any good job on the eastern shore will be filled by skilled folks from elsewhere. The eastern shore is perfect for retired folks and we may as well face it and enjoy what we have and not try to become a Baltimore City.
ReplyDeleteIt been a dumping ground. Pesticides, chicken poop in our waterway, the bay gets in it many ways from large ships and run off and people dumping trash. Education on recycling in the home with corporations and farmers is how this will change. You will be the idea for the dump you discuss here will be marketed as creating new jobs but who will get the needed information on the long term effects? Look before you jump!
ReplyDeleteDamn the liberals.Fire the torpedos! Does this include white trash as well?
ReplyDeleteI am thinking about voting for Culver and Anderton but where can I talk to them about how they would do things? Saying no to bad ideas isn't enough!
ReplyDelete11:13 nothing is wrong with the water plant. It's the wastewater plant that is in need of work.
ReplyDeleteThere is a world of difference between treating water and treating sewage.
It's poisoning the water supply.
ReplyDeleteMr albero:
ReplyDeleteAs i have told you many times:
Thank you for keeping us in touch on the liberal sneakies goings on.
Also all you do to help all the animals also.
All wboc can talk about is snow days.
SBYNEWS IS MY ONLY SOURCE FOR BREAKING NEWS .
Go by Norm's house on Whittier and dump your trash in his yard.
ReplyDelete