MERC task force re-formed, renamed
A task force charged with determining the future of the Maine Energy Recover Co. trash incinerator in Biddeford has been disbanded and a new group formed in its place.
Biddeford Mayor Joanne Twomey has disbanded the task force, two weeks after she stepped down from the group and denounced the plan it devised, according to the Portland Press Herald. Twomey said she was dissatisfied that the task force strayed from its original intention of finding a way to close the incinerator instead of relocating parts of its operation to another city, as has been proposed. Most of the task force members have regrouped to form the Green Energy Alliance, comprised of representatives of Casella Waste, which owns MERC, and several Maine communities interested in obtaining low-cost electricity produced by the incinerator.
Casella has proposed moving the trash processing out of Biddeford to Westbrook and locating it with a recycling center, where trash would be turned into pellets that would then be burned in Biddeford. The new alliance is seeking federal grant money to pay for the processing and recycling center, and should know by May if it will receive it, according to the paper.
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