Saco pulls MERC plan support
The city of Saco has pulled its support of a plan to convert the Maine Energy Recovery Co. trash incinerator in Biddeford, three weeks after Biddeford's mayor denounced the plan.
The Saco City Council voted Monday night to withdraw an application for a $2 million state grant to fund half the cost of converting MERC to burn trash pellets, according to the Journal Tribune. Mayor Roland Michaud said the application was submitted hastily and that he "really had some severe concerns about it to begin with." The council plans to join forces with Biddeford representatives, including Mayor Joanne Twomey, in a new committee formed to find a way to close the facility. Twomey earlier this month left a governor-created task force that came up with the plan to convert the facility into burning trash pellets, saying the plan did not achieve the original objectives the city had in mind.
The Biddeford City Council last week formed the new committee with members appointed by the mayors of Biddeford and Saco.
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