Anyone following 'ins and outs' of the Crow Lane landfill will be interested in all of this:
11/21/08
Suffolk Superior Court judge schedules trial for Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office complaint against the landfill owner for April 23 and 24, 2009. According to a news article in The Daily News of Newburyport, the five-month delay is necessary because the judge in the case “does not have two consecutive days free in December.”
7/14/08
Suffolk Superior Court judge sets a schedule for arguing and deciding whether the secret settlement agreement between NV, the attorney general and the DEP should pre-empt the host agreement between the city and NV. The city attorney appears before the Newburyport city council and explains that the case will probably be decided in January, 2009, with several intermediate legal steps and requests for summary judgements to take place before then.
6/24/08
Mass. DEP, Mass. Attorney General and landfill owner’s lawyers appear in Suffolk Superior Court and tell the judge the necessary steps have been taken to include the City of Newburyport in negotiations taking place among the DEP, Attorney General and the landfill lawyers. The Attorney General informs the judge that a preliminary injunction is pending for the landfill owner’s property in Everett, MA. The judge sets a date of 7/14/08 for the city, NV, DEP and attorney general to come back for a status conference.
This was taken from a chronology on LittleRiverBasin.org. Somewhere along the line, these two actions seem to have merged - in my head, at least. But there is a contempt complaint (AG against NV) plus there are the negotiations/summons (Port, DEP, AG, NV) about tossing the host agreement to the H2S-laden wind.
I think I forgot about the latter because no one had mentioned it for awhile ...
Saturday, February 7, 2009
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On January 26, 2009 Everett's Mayor Carlo DeMaria stated at the Board of Alderman's meeting, which is on video that the landfill would be resolved in the next 7-10 days.
Is there any update to this? Cant speak for the landfill but Wood Waste truly stinks. No one, not the DEP the AG or our Board of Health is doing anything. Trucks go in and out of Wood Waste ALL DAY and no one has any idea what's on those trucks. It could be anything causing the smell, and those mountains high that he has at the facility. He's saving it all for the landfill. Of course Everett want's it out of here, but not at Newburyport's expense....health expense of course.
7-10 days was optimistic ... something is happening, but no one quite knows what.
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