Tag: Juniper Ridge Landfill

RadioActive 3/30/17

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Program Topic: Juniper Ridge Landfill “Making Contact” Piece and Interviews

Today we hear a report from Meaghan LaSala and Lisa Bartfai on the proposed expansion of the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town. Juniper Ridge is state owned, but privately operated by Casella Waste Management. The State’s Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) is expected to release a Draft Decision on the proposed expansion this month, after which the public will have time to submit comments. There is no public meeting scheduled by the BEP on this Draft Decision.

Guests:
A) Meaghan LaSala, activist and freelance journalist, Making Contact, Sunlight Media Collective
B) Lisa Bartfai, freelance journalist, Making Contact
C) Interviewees in Making Contact piece: Kathy Paul, John Banks, Ed Spencer, Paul Schroeder, Cheryl Spencer, Kenny Chamberlain, Bob Duchesne, Ryan Parker, Andy Jones

This program was produced in partnership with the Sunlight Media Collective.
Meaghan LaSala and Lisa Bartfai’s piece will be broadcast nationally on Making Contact in June. www.radioproject.org

WERU Community SoapBox 4/19/12

Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: Joel Mann

Key Discussion Points:
Fascism, corporate personhood, Maine mining legislation, HOPE Festival, campaign fundraisers, money in politics, 2 party system, 9/11 truth, spirituality of water, diversity of callers, Earth Day, pollution, Juniper Ridge landfill

Guests by name and affiliation: n/a

Call In Program: yes

WERU News Report – Special Edition 4/12/12

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by: John Greenman
Issue: Independent, Alternative Local News

Program Topic: As we reported on yesterday’s news, there are several pieces of new or revised legislation that seem to be getting rushed through at the end of this legislative session, without public notice or input. One of these was LD1911, a bill that would have transferred ownership of the dump in Old Town into private hands. It is still unclear exactly who was behind that legislation, but it raised serious concerns among members of the Landfill Advisory Committee, and was one of many issues that were raised at a meeting last night with DEP Commissioner Patricia Aho. WERU’s John Greenman attended the meeting, and today we have some excerpts that highlight some of the concerns raised by committee members and the public

Key Discussion Points:
Juniper Ridge Landfill Committee learned about LD1911 on a Friday night, late in session.
The committee is meant to advise state officials
Several areas of concern currently, including LD1911 (privatizing the landfill), out-of-state waste, pollution, state officials acting without consulting committee

Guests n/a (recorded speakers from public meeting on 4/11/12)

Call In Program: No

RadioActive 11/3/11

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco

Program Topic: Casella Waste Systems’ proposed expansion of Juniper Ridge landfill in Old Town, and opposition to it by Occupy Augusta and general public

Key Discussion Points:
Casella’s claim that the waste is not from “out of state”
Public’s environmental and health concerns
Occupy Augusta’s recognition of this case as an a example of corporate sway over politics, and how profit seeking corporations attempt to disguise the negative aspects of their proposed projects.

Guest:
Hillary Lister, waste activist

**NOTE: A 2nd audio file featuring a presentation about the University of Maine’s relationship with the Juniper Ridge Dump is included. Audio was recorded by John Greenman. Presentation was part of the University of Maine’s Marxist and Socialist Lecture Series

WERU Special: Old Town Dump 2/21/11

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributor: Meaghan LaSala

A recorded panel discussion, “LIVING DOWNSTREAM: THE OLD TOWN DUMP AND UNIVERSITY OF MAINE” –one of the discussions in Spring 2011 Socialist and Marxist Studies Lecture Series at the University of Maine. It was recorded Feb. 3rd, 2011, and has been edited for length.

The panel members were John Banks of the Juniper Ridge Landfill Advisory Committee and Director of the Natural Resources Department, Penobscot Nation; Paul Schroeder, Orono resident and member of Trash Trackers Network; Old Town resident Ed Spencer, and Panel Chair: Darren Ranco, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of Native American Research