Cloe Poisson
Steam billows from a tall stack near the power block facility at the MIRA trash-to-energy facility in Hartford’s South Meadows.
Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) officials speak of a sense of urgency in addressing the looming waste crisis when the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority (MIRA) shuts down the Hartford trash incineration next July. For some reason Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride comes to mind, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Thomas Swarr
A 2007 report warned that “Connecticut’s system will likely devolve from one that has been largely self-sustaining to one that is increasingly dependent on facilities and programs outside the state.” Here we are 14 years later and waiting for “someone” to propose a solution for the future.