After deciding in a landslide vote to spend $250,000 for attorneys, Plainfield taxpayers are preparing to tell state regulators why they vehemently oppose allowing a massive trash-to-energy plant in their town. Roughly 90% of voters at a referendum endorsed the town hiring a legal team to fight Smart Technology System’s proposed 81-acre facility. Just a year earlier, the town voted about the same way in an advisory referendum on Smart Technology’s proposal: 1,148 opposed the project and just 125 supported it. At Thursday’s referendum, residents agreed to back that opinion with money, voting 770-90 hire lawyers to fight the proposal when it goes to a regulatory hearing — and then possibly in court if the company wins a permit to build. State Sen. Heather Somers, who has opposed the trash plant idea since it arose two years ago, is urging residents to address their concerns to the Connecticut Siting Council immediately. The council for several weeks advertised a deadline of this Sunday for written public comment, but this week it voted to conduct a public hearing sometime in the fall.
CT town issues resounding vote against trash plant. Concern is ‘impacts to air quality and water quality’
