Should the State site local Indiana landfills? That is the recommendation today from this editorial in the Munster NWI Times. Some quotes:
By the end of April, Porter Superior Court Judge Bill Alexa plans to issue a ruling on the proposed Porter County landfill. The landfill, proposed by Porter Development, was rejected by the Porter County Board of Zoning Appeals. It then entered the next stage -- the courts, where the real landfill siting decisions are made. Whichever side loses will appeal until the last legal avenues are explored or money runs out.Posted by Marcia Oddi at April 13, 2004 10:12 AMIt would make more sense to push landfill siting decisions to the experts rather than the courts. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management has more expertise to make this kind of decision. A landfill should not be approved without thorough study of not only the environmental science involved in the opening, operation, closing and post-closing monitoring phases, but also of the financial wherewithal of the developers and of the backgrounds of each of the investors.