Commissioners Scrap Frederick, MD Incinerator Plan

- Asso­ci­at­ed Press, Novem­ber 21, 2014, Her­ald-Mail

The Fred­er­ick Coun­ty Com­mis­sion­ers are scrap­ping plans for a waste-to-ener­gy incin­er­a­tor after more than five years of debate.

The Fred­er­ick News-Post report­ed that the board vot­ed 3–2 Thurs­day night to can­cel a con­tract with Whee­labra­tor Tech­nolo­gies Inc. for the $471 mil­lion project.

The board unan­i­mous­ly vot­ed in favor of haul­ing the coun­ty’s trash to an out-of-state land­fill for up to five years.

The project suf­fered a blow in April when Car­roll Coun­ty pulled out of an agree­ment to joint­ly fund the project.

The incin­er­a­tor had been planned for an indus­tri­al park south of Fred­er­ick near the Mono­ca­cy Nation­al Bat­tle­field. Oppo­nents, includ­ing the Nation­al Park Ser­vice, had argued it would pol­lute the air and water, and obstruct views from the Civ­il War site.