Get Involved!
DEC sends City of Albany memos regarding "Notice of Incomplete Application" for the proposed landfill expansion in the Pine Bush. None of this information was shared with the public until uncovered by the press. Read the three memos:
February 4, 2008
November 19, 2007
October 15, 2007
Important Common Council Landfill Update Meeting
Held on Tuesday, December 11, 5:15 PM, 2007
Albany City Hall, Second Floor, Eagle Street Albany.
This important meeting was intended to provide an update of the City of Albany’s proposed landfill expansion in the Pine Bush.
The slide presentation given by Steve Apfelbaum at a recent SPB dinner was not shown for discussion and reference because everyone present had already seen it. Other topics on the proposed landfill expansion for update and discussion are:
1.status of expansion application
2.gas to energy proposals
3.carbon credits
4.odor management & air quality testing
5.single stream recycling
6.recycling bank program
A public comment period will be included. It is important that as many people as possible attend to express interest in the proposed expansion.
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Pine Bush has a listserv. If you join, you will receive information
about meetings and actions relating to the proposed landfill
expansion.
Join a committee to take
action! Save the Pine
Bush has organized committees to study the proposed landfill
expansion, and many issues surrounding the expansion. Email
the committee chair to receive information about meetings
and actions.
Committee Information:
Committee
Name |
Description |
Chair |
| Research |
Research solutions to solid waste, encourage
reduction & reuse, easier recycling systems. Also, air
testing and research other revenue sources for the City of
Albany |
Lynne Lyons |
Community
Relations |
Letter writing, lobbying, write letters
to the editor, working on publicity and outreach to community
members. Also, work on tort lawsuit case. |
Lynne Jackson |
| Signs & Shirts |
Work on making signs and t-shirts to get out the message. |
Claire Nolan |
| FOIL |
Examine Department of Environmental Conservation records
acquired under FOIL - Freedom of Information Law. |
Bert Schou |
| Regionalization |
Examine issue of regionalization and how it relates to
the issue of the landfill |
Tom Gillespie |
| Health Survey |
Conduct a health survey of neighbors of the landfill. |
Tom Ellis |
Read More details:
Stop the Landfill
Expansion — Get Involved!
Read about the
Landfill Scandal
Proposed
Landfill Expansion a Collision of Factors, State
Needs to Take Action — An Opinion, Apr/May
07
Action
Guide to Citizens who can’t stand the smell or who
think the Pine Bush is no place for a dump, Apr/May
07
Massive
Opposition to Proposed Landfill Expansion, Apr/May
07
Expansion of the Landfill in the
Pine Bush —
The Battle Begins!, Jan 07
What Part of the Pine Bush Does the
City Want for Allied Waste?, Dec/Jan 07
Read
about the Proposed Landfill Expansion on Pine Bush Preserve
Trash Deal Raise Stink - Times Union 10/22/06
Foes Trash Dump Contract - Times Union 10/23/06
AlbanyWebLog Comments
Garbage or the Pine Bush? - City of Albany Proposes
to take Pine Bush for its third landfill expansion proposal,
published October, 2006
Assemblyman John McEneny Speaks about the Landfill,
published October, 2006
Summer, 2006
Though the Albany City Council to voted for a
home rule message to ask the NYS Legislature to remove 10 acres
of Pine Bush Preserve for the landfill expansion, because
of all of the lobbying of our supporters, Assemblyman
Jack McEneny killed the legislation and did not allow it to
come up for a vote.
ACTION: Lets say THANK YOU!!!
Contact Assemblyman Jack McEneny and thank him for killing
the legislation!
ALBANY OFFICE
LOB 648
Albany, NY 12248
518-455-4178
mcenenj@assembly.state.ny.us
What is our next step? Ask the Albany Common
Council to actively start looking at how to solve the solid
waste and financial issues of the landfill.
So, call your Common
Council member and ask them
to actively take up this issue to save our City and save the
Pine Bush.
Read relevent documents:
First step
in landfill expansion approved — Pine Bush panel OKs
digging of test wells, but McEneny blocks state bill to add
acreage - Printed in the Times Union
Two articles published in the Times Union regarding
the Temporary Revokable Permit given to the City to dig test
wells.
Legal
opinion by Peter Henner regarding needing
to alienate Preserve land prior to completing requirements
of the State Environmental Quality Review Act provisions
Daily Gazette editorial, "Albany
landfill deal has a funny odor"
Reasons
to oppose removing land from the Preserve for
a landfill.
Assembly Bill removing land from the Preserve
Speech by Lynne Jackson given to the Albany Common
Council on June 5, 2006, offering a solution to the landfill
issue.
Letter written by Save the Pine Bush to the Albany
County District Attorney regarding illegal bulldozing.
What should we do
with the GARBAGE??
Mayor Jennings of the
City of Albany is proposing to take land out of the Pine
Bush Preserve to expand the landfill.
Save the Pine Bush believes this will be the beginning of the end of the Pine Bush Preserve. But, what do we do with the garbage?
Landfill Links
Its
not a Garbage Problem — Its an Economic Problem,
Commissioner Bruce speaks to Save the Pine Bush, - published
in the July/Aug 06 newsletter
City of Albany
Attempts to Sneak Legislation Past the Public Removing Land
from the Pine Bush Preserve, - published
in the July/Aug 06 newsletter
Letter to
the Editor - Bigger Better Bottle Bill, - published
in the July/Aug 06 newsletter
The
Albany Common Council –The
Debate and the Vote, - published
in the July/Aug 06 newsletter
The
Albany Common Council –Editorial
Comment by Lynne Jackson, - published
in the July/Aug 06 newsletter
City of Albany Illegally Bulldozes
Albany Pine Bush Preserve - Press Release May 5, 2006
No Magic
Bullet: Solving the Garbage Problem - published
in the May/June 2006 newsletter
A
Plan for Planning - published in the May/June
2006 newsletter
Waste to Energy Seems Like A Good Idea, But Is
It Good For The Environment? - Written to Save the Pine Bush
by Jim Travers, February 21, 2006
Action Alert, Call or write your New York State Legislators, 1/25/06
Save the Pine Bush sues Mayor Jennings and the City of Albany over the proposed landfill expansion, 1/18/06
Papers filed in the lawsuit:
Memorandum of Law
Verified Petition
Affirmation
Albany
targets barrens again - Jennings says 10 acres dedicated
to Pine Bush are needed for landfill, printed
in the Times Union, 1/26/06
Albany
Wants to Dedicate a Dump to the Preserve ,
November 2005
Albany
Landfill Expansion - Press Release, August
2005
Albany
Landfill Expansion Proposal in the Pine Bush
Daily Gazette Editorial - September 9, 2005
WAMC
News Story about the
Landfill Expansion in the Pine Bush
