Haven't seen much buzz on this topic, and don't know who's behind Orange County Voice, but there's a group in rural Orange passing out information that Orange county is considering what could be some pretty radical changes in the way trash is handled for non-incorporated residents. If this is true, rural residents really need to voice their opinions and concerns.
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NC Environmental Justice Network's Quarterly meeting hosted by RENA & CEER
Event Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 4:19pm.03/21/2009 - 9:30am - 03/21/2009 - 1:30pm
Location:
Faith Tabernacle Oasis Of Love International Church, 8005 Rogers Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
Via e-mail:
I wanted to send a reminder for you to reach out to your groups/organizations to invite them to come to the NC Environmental Justice Network's Quarterly meeting hosted by the Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA) and the Coalition to End Environmental Racism (CEER) at the Faith Tabernacle Oasis of Love International Church (located at 8005 Rogers Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27516).
The meeting program will begin at 9:30am with a light breakfast and finish up at 1:30pm. Lunch will also be provided. Please RSVP as soon as possible so we can get a head count for meals.
We will send more information including an agenda soon.
Best wishes,
Min. Campbell.
President RENA
Co-Chair CEER
W: 919-960-3455
H: 919-933-6210
rplcampbell@gmail.com
www.rogersroad.wordpress.com
Preserve Rural Orange meeting on solid waste transfer station
Event Submitted by Ruby Sinreich on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 2:38pm.03/15/2009 - 7:00pm
Location:
White Cross Recreation Center, 1800 White Cross Road
From the OrangeChat blog:
UPDATE: Preserve Rural Orange HAS POSTPONED tonight's meeting on plans for a solid waste transfer station due to the weather.
The meeting is NOW scheduled for 7 p.m. SUNDAY MARCH 15 at the White Cross Recreation Center, 1800 White Cross Road west of Carrboro.
Speakers include Orange County Solid Waste Director Gayle Wilson. At citizens' urging, the county is now looking at alternatives to a transfer station such as hiring a contractor to haul trash to another area outside the county and possibly exploring waste to energy technology, although offiicals have previously said the county did not generate enough trash to make that feasible.
Live tweeting waste transfer hearing at the Commish
Blog entry Submitted by Ruby Sinreich on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 11:25pm.Among other things on the County Commissioners agenda tonight the siting of the proposed waste transfer station. John Rees, an avid cyclist who lives in Dogwood Acres, is there and posting updates via Twitter. Here are his updated posts in reverse chronological order (newest to oldest):
Are phone books equivalent to garbage?
Blog entry Submitted by Jose on Sat, 11/22/2008 - 12:28am.I was in my house a couple Saturdays ago and I heard something outside and I assumed it was the mailman putting mail in the box. Then a bit later I heard something again. Why would the mailman come twice? So I went out and looked and in addition to the mail in the mailbox there was a nearly 1,200 page phone book on my stoop.
And then again the other day I came home from work and there was another phone book on my stoop, this one over 1,200 pages.
How can it be legal for people to come to your house and put a big, heavy thing that you didn't ask for on your doorstep? Can I get rid of it by putting it on someone elses doorstep?
If Durham Can Do It - Why Not Orange?
Blog entry Submitted by George C on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 1:34pm.A short story posted today on WRAL.com describes how Durham has entered into an agreement to install internal combustion engines and generators at their landfill. Duke Energy will subsequently buy the power generated which is estimated to be sufficient to serve 1600 homes.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Thursday that a deal with Methane Power Inc. will allow Charlotte-based Duke Energy to begin buying up to two megawatts of power generated by the landfill beginning next year.
- WRAL.com: Duke to turn Durham landfill gas into electricity, 8/7/08
Trash talk, budget busters and poseur politics
Blog entry Submitted by Mike Swaim on Wed, 04/09/2008 - 7:25am.The elephant in the room that nobody is talking about... factoring rising fuel costs into the equation.
It's mindnumbing that an area that prides itself on sustainability would even be considering a program to export it's own waste. The very definition of sustainability is something that can be maintained into the indefinite future. Is paying to haul waste out of county sustainable in any sense of the word? Is increasing transportation miles at the end of a product's long transportation chain to get to the consumer even sane?
What percentage of trash in the current landfill comes from UNC? What percentage comes from Chapel Hill and Carrboro? What percentage comes from elsewhere in the county? Maybe each district should be required to sustainably deal with it's own waste.
Landfill neighbors have had enough
Blog entry Submitted by Ruby Sinreich on Wed, 02/28/2007 - 6:17am.This is an issue I've been wanting to write about for a while, but it's been hard to start. I have been a supporter of the Rogers Road neighbors for 10-15 years. It may have been as far back as my college days, when I wrote my senior thesis on environmental racism, that I first met Rev. Robert Campbell and learned about the repeated violations of the local governments' promise to the residents of this historic African-American neighborhood.
As was thoroughly documented in a recent Chapel Hill News editorial by Aarne Veslind, our current landfill on Eubanks Road was built in 1972 with assurances to the neighbors that it would only operate for a fixed period of time and that no additional waste management facilities would be located in the neighborhood. Guess what happened?
