Politicians' Positions on the Waste-to-Energy Incinerator
Frederick County Commissioner Candidate Janice Wiles
Opposed to waste-to-energy incineration
"I am firmly against the construction of a large waste incinerator (WTE) planned for Frederick County for fiscal, environmental and social reasons."
Janice told us:
We need to Recycle, Reuse and Reduce our trash—not burn it. I am firmly against the construction of the large incinerator planned for Frederick County. The incinerator would undermine the county’s growing and highly successful recycling program, would produce perverse incentives for the county to produce more trash, import trash, and be more wasteful in order to feed the trash burner. Additionally, the incinerator would impose a huge financial obligation on the citizens of the county that would likely have an adverse affect the county’s bond rating, as has already happened in communities such as Harrisburg, PA. Instead of spending $600 million on debt to finance an incinerator, we should invest a much smaller sum into expanding recycling, organic waste composting, community reduction and reuse.
