Thursday, February 11, 2021

Madison Landfill is On Again.....

but Legislature may rescue Madison County

Opponents of a proposed Madison County landfill on County Line Road enjoyed a temporary victory in their fight to stop the county from having a third landfill. NCL attorney John Brunini (Butler Snow) stated in a February 2 letter sent to MDEQ: 

On behalf of NCL Waste, LLC, I am writing to withdraw all permit applications submitted to MDEQ relating to the NCL Landfill project in Madison County, Mississippi. For a variety of reasons, NCL Waste has decided to abandon this project and pursue other opportunities. Please take all actions necessary to withdraw and/or terminate all pending permit applications for the NCL Landfill project.

High-fives were exchanged yesterday as Madison County residents celebrated after WLBT reported the news but the victory turned out to be short-lived. 

NCL  channeled its inner Steinbrenner and reversed course in a letter sent to MDEQ on February 4: 

Team Waste Madison Landfill, LLC has resigned as Manager of NCL Waste, LLC. Michael Bilberry of  Phoenix Waste LLC which owns 50% of NCL Waste, LLC is now the Manager of NCL Waste, LLC. On behalf of NCL Waste, LLC, I am writing to request that all permit applications submitted to MDEQ relating to the NCL Landfill project in Madison County, Mississippi be held intact and not withdrawn or  rescinded. We will work to expeditiously update contact information and other documents with MDEQ.  Mr. Jeff Allen with Allen Engineering has agreed to be the engineer of record for this project.

However, the fight may be all for naught as HB #949 passed the House of Representatives yesterday on a 107-5 vote.  Representatives Jill Ford, Ed Blackmon, and Deborah Gibbs sponsored the bill that will prohibit counties from having more than two landfills unless  the voters approve additional landfills in a referendum. History and text of bill. 

Stay tuned.


24 comments:

Anonymous said...

So...It looks to me like the garbage business people said, "no, this isn't worth it," and bailed on the project. But the land owners still want to move forward. I guess they think that if they get a permit, there will be other garbage business people who will want to run the garbage business of the dump. We'll have to see if the landowners have the capital, both financial and political, to make that happen.

Anonymous said...

Freaking great commercial ! I remember it myself..

Anonymous said...

The sad fact is that Mississippi has clay deposits aplenty where waste can be prevented from leaching and far enough away from populated areas not to cause a stink.

The transportation costs are miniscule compared to the costs of dealing with leaching into underground aquifers (90% of MS has those).

We also aren't so geographically large that a few good sites are wouldn't be much smarter ( economically and environmentally) than inadequate localized sites.

But, who cares about " smart" when quick money can be made in the short term and you might can kick the costs to the next generation?

Anonymous said...

Pardon my lack of knowledge, but doesn't it seem stupid to put a third landfill in one of the fastest growing counties in the state, when there are probably better sites in nearby, sparsely populated counties that could handle 1 new landfill site placed away from people? Landfills are NIMBYs that will be opposed anywhere they are placed, but certainly there are much better sites than this one? I'm glad the Legislature is taking action to stop this one. But why are they (NCL) so willing to die on this hill?

Anonymous said...

@10:30, you clearly don't live within a 10 mile radius of the Little Dixie dump; it smells to high heaven. Or, maybe you're against the rights of people to voice opinions on things that concern them? "We are smarter than you mere residents, and we will do what we think is right."

Anonymous said...

NGLs money would be better spent directing their engineer to come up with alternative sites in other counties.

anonamouse said...

Drive down County Line Rd from Livingston to Hwy 49. The amount of trash/garbage on the side of the road is appalling! Then decide if another dump is needed.

Anonymous said...

The C-L reported this morning that NCL will not pursuit a landfill in Madison Co. It's a done deal. No dump. Yea!

Anonymous said...

Little Dixie has 100 plus acres to expand into horizontally. They were denied a license to go up.

This is about a quick money grab by adjacent landowners.

Legislature will soon make that a moot point.

Let LD expand in its own footprint

Anonymous said...

Jill Ford has partnered up with the Blackmons? Say it ain't so. That would be like Mary Butler Hawkins forming an allegiance with the National Organization For The Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML).

Anonymous said...

Why haven’t they already covered the old landfills with a foot of topsoil and sod and build million dollar McMansions for the Ole Miss yuppies?

Anonymous said...

Best place for a landfill is next to an existing one.

Anonymous said...

Drive down County Line Rd from Livingston to Hwy 49. The amount of trash/garbage on the side of the road is appalling! Then decide if another dump is needed.

Or cross County Line on the Trace and just look over to the north. Both sides of the road actually appear to be snow-capped with trash. Nobody gives a shit - Not the haulers, the contractors, the municipalities, the drivers or the politicians.

Anonymous said...

Doesn't matter. In a few years we will have mountains of trash like seen in the opening of Idiocracy. You have to put it somewhere or figure out how to use it for energy production.

Anonymous said...

@4:48 PM
You seem to be completely ignorant to the vast amount of unpopulated land that exists on this planet. The overwhelming majority of population centers are coastal. There are millions of acres of Canadian Arctic and hundreds of third world countries that would make perfect landfills for rich nations.

Anonymous said...

Those greasy palms were not greased enough.

Anonymous said...

6:24, get back on your meds if you actually think other places will take our shit because we say they will. Millions of acres in Canadian Artic. Yeah, I can see that going over real well with the Canucks. Maybe we can start filling in the Grand Canyon 1st. You make me laugh. Thank you, it's been a while.

Anonymous said...

7:55 - I'm glad you got to laugh. And you made me laugh at your ignorance. This third landfill concept is and was intended to take the garbage of other counties, even states, not 'local shit'.

Anonymous said...

The number of landfills per county is meaningless. It is propaganda luff for the unthinking. What is important is 1) how big the landfill is and 2)what goes in the landfill Three 10 acre landfills filled with paper is better than 1 one hundred acre landfill with plutonium.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, I get grief all the time when I leave my Plutonium at the curb.

Anonymous said...

Plutonium goes in the blue box, right?

Anonymous said...

Just wait til the Steen-Bryant conspiracy unfolds.

Anonymous said...

So the big argument against three landfills is Madison county has plenty of capacity. If that is so why was Canton at MDEQ last month asking for a variance so they could expand into the buffer zone of not one but two different residential areas. Even with the two existing landfills, they have significantly less acreage than most area landfills. Also someone said BFI has land but what is the difference if you let BFI expand to the south or someone else open a new landfill that is already between two existing landfills. This is about money and not protecting the "people".

Anonymous said...

Little Dixie may have acreage but none of it is permitted or included in the county's existing plan. So how is it any different to let one company justify an expansion into new green area but not let another build a new facility that is next door. Also has anyone thought of the landowner stuck in the middle, the county permitted two landfills on either side of him so what is he supposed to do with his land but another landfill? This is only about money, bet Mayor Gene Magee gets some good campaign contributions from Waste Mgmt and BFI out of this and oh yea some major "new" business for his insurance company, no conflicts of interest there, he's just doing it for those poor people out in the county.


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