The town is petitioning the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to provide two public hearings on SMART Technology Systems LLC’s widely opposed proposal to build a trash-to-energy plant in town. The requests for a public hearing in town and another in Hartford list First Selectman Kevin Cunningham as the point person for discussions regarding SMART Technology Systems, LLC’s application for the plant that would process 1,800 tons of solid waste per day on an 81-acre parcel at the intersection of Norwich Road and Black Hill Road. SMART Technology Systems has billed its trash-to-energy plant as a “first-in-the-country, next-generation Municipal Solid Waste management, recycling and power generation complex,” that converts trash into power using a gasification technology modeled after a facility in Finland. Sinclair said SMART Technology Systems would be evaluated against the facilities in Florida and Europe. He said that typically, DEEP only requires applicants to meet the emissions limits for comparable U.S. facilities because or the different units and rates used by international standards.

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