The contract is slated to be awarded to Recology in exchange for a fat eight-year contract that opens at current rates but allows for even higher rates as soon as August 2010.

The emailed council agenda packet was sent and arrived at 1:18 Friday afternoon, February 5. Coincidentally, city hall closes at 1:30 on Friday afternoon.
The council meeting is on the following Monday, so there’s really no time to react, and certainly the unwashed public won’t know what hit ’em.

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It seems that a somewhat similar scenario developed recently when Recology was placed on the Humboldt RPC docket as a “consent agenda” item. That means the pending extension to the CUP is noncontroversial and unless someone objected, it would have been passed without discussion. Until someone found out, that is. To view the video click in the image below:

The majority of Humboldt County residents are against the proposed Jungo landfill. Exceptions to State laws will need to be enacted to site the project. Due Diligence has been requested by local residence and groups.
The request for extension criticizes the efforts of local residents to protect the local ecological environment and suggests there is no basis for concern even when laws and testimony to the contrary are written into public record. Their perspective is:
“How dare locals speak up to protect their clean environment!” Does this sound like the kind of business you want in your community? Pay particular attention to page three of the extension request.
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“It seems like we’re finally getting justice,”
Also this week Jared Blumenfeld, administrator for the EPA’s Pacific Southwest region, promised to visit Kettleman City and to probe his own department and make sure “every enforcement, regulatory and permitting action that should’ve been taken has been taken.”

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WHAT SHOULD COMMISSIONERS KNOW, AND WHEN SHOULD THEY KNOW IT?
The contract issue caught the commissioner’s attention when they learned Humboldt County DA Russell Smith has reviewed potential contracts from Recology, the company proposing to build a landfill on Jungo Rd., in advance of the commission being aware of it.

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IS DRUG STEWARDSHIP THE ANSWER TO DRUGS IN LANDFILLS?
The bill would require pharmaceutical manufacturers to create their own program for customers to return their unused medications so that they can be treated as hazardous waste, rather than flushed down the toilet or taken out with the household trash, the current recommended means of disposal.

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Product stewardship is well established in Europe, Canada, Japan and South Korea, and it’s not foreign to the United States
In California alone, they spend $500 million yearly trying but failing to manage discarded household batteries, fluorescent lights, hypodermic needles, cell phones, radios, microwaves, printers, computers and televisions — “problem products” that the state has banned from municipal landfills. And that means a lot of toxic mercury, cadmium, nickel, arsenic and lead is getting buried in the dump.

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PUBLIC SAYS OIL FACILITY HAS AFFECTED QUALITY OF LIFE IN AREA
The reason we are here today is to talk to you about some of the issues we are having with Nevada Department of Environmental Protection as well as discuss some of the decisions that Churchill County made so it may help you guys in the future make some good decisions.

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UPDATE!
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GROUP SEEKS FEDERAL OVERSIGHT ON BEHALF OF CITIZENS AND ENVIRONMENT

We therefore request that the US Environmental Protection Agency, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) conduct a full environmental review of the project under the terms of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Clean Water Act, and the Clean Air Act prior to issuing permits.
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Send your own comments, letters and emails to voice your concerns.

Nevadan’s Against Garbage is pleased to welcome Carlo Apodaca to the Meeting Room at the Winnemucca Inn, January 20th at 7pm. Carlo will be discussing facts regarding the application and limitations of liners used in both landfills and mines. Please join us for this informative presentation.

DUE TO SOME CONFLICTS, CARLO APODACA WILL NOT BE PRESENTING ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20. AT THIS TIME, THE AGENDA IS UNCERTAIN SO KEEP CHECKING BACK FOR ANY ADDITIONAL UPDATES.

Read this presentation by Dennis E. Williams, Ph.D. before the Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County
It would take less than 4 drops of TCE mixed with the water in an average sized swimming pool (20,000 gallons) to render the water undrinkable (in accordance with drinking water standards).

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