Politicians' Positions on the Waste-to-Energy Incinerator
Frederick County Commissioner President Jan H. Gardner
In favor of the waste-to-energy incinerator
Gardner does not support the McKinney site for the incinerator and says it's too small, but she is not opposed to incineration. Although Gardner should be commended for research she presented on ArrowBio and for attending the solid waste conference in Philadelphia, where she and Commissioner Jenkins met with representatives from ArrowBio, on June 23, 2009, she allowed the BOCC to vote to move forward with incineration instead of getting the full report on the alternatives, which, immediately prior to the vote, she even suggested doing!
Gardner and Thompson signed the Potomac Watershed Trash Treaty—but they want a trash incinerator that close to the Monocacy?
See articles and e-mails pertaining to Gardner, including this one from 04/15/08, in which she appears interested in alternatives to incineration.
E-mail sent to Jan Gardner from concerned resident on 03/05/10:
Jan, In several emails below you seem to be defending your vote against using the McKinney for the NMWDA's trash incinerator. ("Are you trying to change my NO vote to a YES vote?") So, the question of the day: Are you going to still say you're against the site next to the battlefield (and vote accordingly), and that processes like ArrowBio should be seriously considered before obligating this County's citizens to 19 pages of financial obligations to Wheelabrator? When is this going to happen? Also, you stated in an email that you would read each and every page of the contract. Have you done that yet? Thank you.
PS: Have any of the BoCC at least read the financial obligations contained within all of the contracts?
Also see Jan, please correct your misstatement of the "penalty" and "Jan, where is that open and transparent government?"
