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Article: Public seeks landfill changes Transparency urged at Juniper Ridge
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- January 10, 2009
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AUGUSTA - Concerned residents and public officials urged the
State Planning Office on Friday to be more transparent when
considering changes to the way that Juniper Ridge Landfill in West
Old Town is run.
More than 250 people signed a petition last year requesting that
the State Planning Office draft rules that would require the agency
hold a public hearing whenever substantive changes are proposed to
Juniper Ridge's contract.
Residents filed the petition after learning that SPO kept quiet
for nearly two years about changes to the contract between the
agency and the private firm that runs the state-owned landfill.
The changes, which were adopted in late 2006, would have allowed
Casella Waste ...