Neighbors in the North Country trying to block a landfill from being put in next to a state park in Dalton won a major victory Thursday when the New Hampshire Senate stepped into the years-long fight.
NH has a waste management problem. For years we’ve allowed private companies to dictate how we manage our waste. As a result, and contrary to state policy, NH continues to focus on landfilling and incinerating waste rather than reducing and recycling.
Linda Massimilla, Edith Tucker, Timothy Egan and Dennis Thompson are NH state representatives. Our management of solid waste landfills in New Hampshire is a hot mess.Consider this:The Coakley landfill in Portsmouth has contaminated nearby water.
CONCORD Waste management will be front and center at the New Hampshire Legislature this week, with public hearings on extended producer responsibility and siting new landfills on Tuesday.Landfill sitingJan. 18 will be a marathon of public hearings.
A Vermont corporation (Casella) wants to build yet another enormous landfill in New Hampshire’s North Country. This next one would be in Dalton right next to Forest Lake State Park and only five miles from Casella’s troubled landfill in Bethlehem..