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Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Environment - More on proposed Pines transfer station
The Munster (NW Indiana) Times reports today, in a story by Matthew Van Dusen:
Lawyers for communities opposed to a waste transfer station near Mount Baldy told an environmental law judge that IDEM officials ignored local issues when they granted a permit to transfer station owner Great Lakes Transfer, LLC.The ILB has had many entries on the proposed Pines Transfer stations. See the most recent here.The hearing was in Indianapolis at the Indiana Office of Environmental Adjudication over two days. It concluded Monday, but the judge will not rule until April at the earliest on whether to stay the permit.
On Nov. 9, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management granted the permit to Great Lakes Transfer, LLC, President Sean Blieden to build a facility that will take 250 tons of garbage a day, which Great Lakes Transfer will ship to landfills within 24 hours.
Porter County and the towns of Beverly Shores and The Pines appealed the decision to the administrative law court and LaPorte County joined the petition in January.
The local government lawyers argued different points before the judges, but Porter County Attorney Gwenn Rinkenberger said they all focused on IDEM's permitting process.
"It's so amazing how they feel as if they can issue a permit no matter what's happening at the local level," said Rinkenberger. * * *
Blieden's lawyer Amy E. Romig, from the Indianapolis law firm Plews, Shadley, Racher & Braun, said she would comment on the case later.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 7, 2006 08:11 AM
Posted to Environment | Ind. Adm. Bd. Decisions