Judge voids landfill agreement due to illegal meeting
Superior Court Judge Tommy Wilson voided the agreement between the E.T. Carlyle Company and Lamar County commission last week and ruled the commission violated Georgia's open meetings law when reaching the agreement.
It isn't going to change anything,just delay it until the next meeting.
The idea isn’t bad; it’s how Carlyle wants to build it on the cheap. Make them build to the highest EPA standards and monitor them to ensure they are compliant.
Barnesville should be famous for more than “Buggy Town”; why not recycling capital of America!!
Along with the possibility of of your well
Being contaminated and your land value
To drop right? How does it sound now? The truth
Is your ignorant.
All of my life and am quite young. But I
Own property here I am not just visiting
For college and living in a dorm room.
It’s OK if the E.T. Carlyle Company wants to be a land owner in Lamar County. But if they want to use the land to possibly damage our ground water or introduce a potential environmental hazard, we have the right to tell our commissioners to tell E.T. Carlyle Company NO! The commissioners are supposed to be the voice of the people and they should just tell them the people said NO. The commission should also be capable of telling a judge that the people they represent said NO.
Another way could be to allow the unlined dump with the stipulation that prior to operations, the owners would have escrowed enough cash to pay for any future potential environmental clean-up and damages to landowners. Clean-up estimates could be obtained from the EPA. At least 200 million in available (not promised) funds might be a good estimate, possibly even more. That way any damage arising from their operations could be settled and paid without further court actions.
After all, shouldn’t the E.T. Carlyle Company be confident enough to stand behind their risk with their own funds?