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DoomsdaysCWOh yeah. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidgeLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JuniperRidgeLandfill</a> is NOT a solution!Time is running out to find new solutions to manage <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biosolids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biosolids</a> in MaineA new report shows that capacity at a state-owned <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/landfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#landfill</a> will run out in 2028. PORTLAND, Maine — "There are growing concerns about the state's ability to handle waste and the impact it could have on wastewater treatment facilities in just a few years. Tons of wastewater <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sludge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sludge</a>, or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biosolids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biosolids</a>, are shipped to a state-owned landfill every day. That sludge is laced with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PFAS</a>. "State regulators say if investments aren't made to manage it, the landfill could be at capacity by 2028. The Portland Water District's East End plant takes in 25,000 pounds of solid waste daily."'What comes in has to go out, so when we have interruptions in the ability to manage biosolids, that is a huge challenge,' Scott Firmin, director of Portland Wastewater Services with the Portland Water District, explained."The utility has nearly 100,000 customers in the Greater Portland area and ships the byproduct of that waste, known as sludge or biosolids, to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidgeLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JuniperRidgeLandfill</a> near <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OldTownMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldTownMaine</a>. "Last summer, it was left scrambling after <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Casella" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Casella</a> Waste Systems said it could not safely accept municipal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sludge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sludge</a> at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JuniperRidge</a> after shipments of construction debris needed to stabilize the site were banned."'Ninety percent of the biosolids generated in Maine go to that landfill,' Firmin said."<a href="https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/tech/science/environment/pfas/time-is-running-out-to-find-new-solutions-to-manage-biosolids-in-maine-waste-pfas/97-0e674c1a-6c51-40a6-b297-5438e2cda549" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/tech/science/environment/pfas/time-is-running-out-to-find-new-solutions-to-manage-biosolids-in-maine-waste-pfas/97-0e674c1a-6c51-40a6-b297-5438e2cda549</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLIfe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLIfe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CompostingToilets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CompostingToilets</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JuniperRidge</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDestruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalDestruction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PenobscotRiver</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PenobscotNation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProtectTheSacred</a>

DoomsdaysCW[Thread] What to do with all those <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biosolids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biosolids</a>? (And why are they full of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PFAS</a> in the first place, I wonder.) Talk of building a Biosolid to Energy plant in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrunswickMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BrunswickMaine</a> but the leftover ick will be dumped at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JuniperRidge</a> -- where it can leech into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PenobscotRiver</a> where the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PenobscotNation</a> live and fish! (And talk about treating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredPlaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SacredPlaces</a> the way they should be -- the Penobscot River is one of those places that should be granted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Personhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Personhood</a>)!

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineDEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaineDEP</a> says expansion of state’s largest landfill would benefit publicThe decision allows the state to apply to add 61 acres to the state-owned <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidgeLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JuniperRidgeLandfill</a>, which takes in 52% of the state's waste.by Penelope Overton October 2, 2024"Despite objections from neighbors and environmental groups, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection concluded Wednesday that expanding the state’s largest landfill, Juniper Ridge, would substantially benefit the public. It’s not an outright approval, but the department’s decision allows the state to apply to add 61 acres to the state-owned Juniper Ridge Landfill, which takes in 52% of the state’s waste. The state claims this expansion would extend the facility’s operating life by 11 years; without it, it would run out of space by 2028."DEP Commissioner Melanie Loyzim’s decision can be appealed to the Board of Environmental Protection and the Maine courts, and several opponents of the proposed expansion, like the Boston-based <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConservationLawFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConservationLawFoundation</a> , say they are prepared to challenge the decision. "'This decision recklessly gambles with public health and the environment,' said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlexandraStPierre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlexandraStPierre</a>, the director of communities and toxics in the foundation’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalJustice</a> Program. 'It dismisses the serious concerns raised by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PenobscotNation</a> and other nearby residents about the harmful effects this expansion will have on their health and community.'"She continued: 'We refuse to allow this dangerous expansion to proceed unchecked.'"The foundation and other opponents say the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OldTown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldTown</a> location of the facility unfairly places the burden of the state’s trash needs on the Penobscot Nation. The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/leachate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#leachate</a> that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JuniperRidge</a> produces when it rains is sent to a nearby paper mill sewer plant that discharges into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PenobscotRiver</a>.[...]"The amount of waste heading to Maine landfills has increased 34% between 2018 and 2022, according to DEP. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sludge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sludge</a> that was once spread on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/agricultural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#agricultural</a> fields is now landfilled due to forever chemical <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contamination</a> [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PFAS</a>]. The amount of municipal solid waste landfilled during that time jumped 47%. "While some people say Maine is not doing enough to divert waste from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/landfills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#landfills</a> – for example, a bill that would have required large <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FoodWaste</a> generators to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/recycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#recycle</a> their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scraps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scraps</a> at a nearby facility died on the appropriations table – others object to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Casella" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Casella</a> as the facility operator. "Casella clashed with some municipal leaders and state lawmakers when it refused to accept the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biosolids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biosolids</a> created by wastewater treatment plants at Juniper Ridge out of fear that the mushy slop, or sludge, was causing structural instability that could lead to the landfill’s collapse."Original article: <a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2024/10/02/maine-state-needs-to-expand-its-biggest-landfill/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.pressherald.com/2024/10/02/maine-state-needs-to-expand-its-biggest-landfill/</a>Archived version: <a href="https://archive.md/VXv9m" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.md/VXv9m</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidgeLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JuniperRidgeLandfill</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CasellaWasteSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CasellaWasteSystems</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaineNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Maine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ToxicFire</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFASPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PFASPollution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WabanakiAlliance</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DontWasteME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DontWasteME</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Slingshot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Slingshot</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalJustice</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PenobscotNation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PFAS</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PenobscotRiver</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalInjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalInjustice</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CompostFoodWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CompostFoodWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReduceWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ReduceWaste</a>

DoomsdaysCW'It's killing us': Public reacts to proposed expansion of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidgeLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JuniperRidgeLandfill</a> Story by Katie Delaney 7/16/2024"'<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JuniperRidge</a> has destroyed the life of people who live around it. At times, it has destroyed part of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PenobscotRiver</a>; it has destroyed part of our air, water, and land,' Don White, a Bucksport resident, said."Public commenters expressed concerns about harmful <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#emissions</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/landfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#landfill</a> fires, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PFAS</a> contamination coming from the facility."Many of the people speaking out said Juniper Ridge is an example of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalInjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalInjustice</a>, particularly for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PenobscotNation</a>."'It's killing us,' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KathyPaul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KathyPaul</a>, a Penobscot Nation Elder, said. 'I just feel like I'm sitting here waiting to die, and I don't mean to be an extremist or anything like that, but I'm really afraid. I can smell the difference already.'"<a href="https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/tech/science/environment/juniper-ridge-landfill-public-comment-expansion-proposal-maine-waste-environment/97-22670996-85e5-4533-83aa-0ecb08809eda" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/tech/science/environment/juniper-ridge-landfill-public-comment-expansion-proposal-maine-waste-environment/97-22670996-85e5-4533-83aa-0ecb08809eda</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidgeLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JuniperRidgeLandfill</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CasellaWasteSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CasellaWasteSystems</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaineNews</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Maine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ToxicFire</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFASPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PFASPollution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WabanakiAlliance</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DontWasteME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DontWasteME</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Slingshot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Slingshot</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalJustice</a>

DoomsdaysCW[It seems that today's vote was in favor of expanding <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JuniperRidge</a>] Juniper Ridge Landfill is one step closer to expanding Maine Public | By Kaitlyn BudionPublished September 20, 2024 at 1:22 PM EDT "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Environmental</a> groups are concerned about a draft decision from the Department of Environmental Protection that brings <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuniperRidgeLandfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JuniperRidgeLandfill</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OldTown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldTown</a> one step closer to expanding."The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has issued a draft decision approving the expansion's public benefit determination, despite opposition from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PenobscotNation</a>, area residents and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalGroups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalGroups</a>."Opponents have brought up concerns about odors and contamination from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PFAS</a>-filled sludge at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/landfill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#landfill</a>."Alexandra St. Pierre with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConservationLawFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConservationLawFoundation</a> said the group was disappointed by the draft approval and wants the department to give greater weight to comments from the public."'We're hoping that Maine DEP will stop making this unnecessary space for waste and make more space for people's voices and the real needs of the community,' she said."In the draft, the department outlines several conditions of the approval, including conducting an odor study and installing a system for treating landfill leachate for PFAS."Dana Colihan with the environmental nonprofit Slingshot said it's insulting for the DEP to say the expansion is consistent with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalJustice</a> for the surrounding community.'"When we think about the odors, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AirPollution</a>, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contamination</a> of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PenobscotRiver</a> from the minimally treated leachate, and how all these factors threaten the Penobscot Nation and working-class <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mainers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mainers</a> living and the surrounding communities, I can't fathom how the state can argue that this fulfills the required environmental justice criteria,' Colihan said."The draft is available for public comment until Friday, Sept. 27, and the DEP is expected to publish the final decision Wednesday, Oct. 2."<a href="https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2024-09-20/juniper-ridge-landfill-is-one-step-closer-to-expanding" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2024-09-20/juniper-ridge-landfill-is-one-step-closer-to-expanding</a><a 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