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News: Marlboro County, SC Landfill lawsuit to be heard this month
As reported by The Herald Advocate
Marlboro County’s battle against a municipal solid waste landfill will play out in court next week.
A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday-Wednesday, February 21-22, at the Marlboro County Courthouse before Judge Michael Nettles.
This relates to a lawsuit that Marlboro County filed in 2007 against the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, alleging improper procedures and challenging the constitutionality of DHEC’s landfill permitting regulations.
The suit was placed on hold and later re-filed by the county. In turn, DHEC filed a motion to dismiss the suit, but Nettles denied that request last year.
The landfill has been a controversial issue since August 2007, when a company called MRR Sandhills, LLC, first proposed building it on a 900-plus acre tract of land between Highways 38 and 177 near the SC/NC line.
The county held a non-binding referendum in June 2008, in which just over 93 percent of the votes cast were in opposition to the landfill.
Since then, multiple lawsuits have been filed in connection with the landfill, including this one.
Belvin Sweatt, chairman of Citizens for Marlboro County, spoke about the hearing at Tuesday’s county council meeting, urging as many people as possible to attend and support the county. He said a number of environmental groups have been contacted and asked to send representatives as well.
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Not in their back yard
The Robesonian wrote an interesting editorial regarding the Scotland County economic situation. It is short, sweet, and to the point.
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Put megadump behind us
Jim Johnston of Laurinburg wrote a letter to the editor of The Laurinburg Exchange.
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Editorial: Canned - Residents were right about Scotland mega-landfill
An interesting editorial appeared in the Fayetteville Observer today, June 10, 2010.
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Waste Management Resolution has passed
The Scotland County Board of Commissioners has passed the "Waste Management Resolution".
The actual resolution can be downloaded here.
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Scotland board puts end to landfill project
The Scotland County Board of Commissioners may have finally listened to its constituents. They voted unanimously to terminate all efforts to go into the "dumping" business.
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Laurinburg Exchange - Maxton board opposes landfill
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"A New Approach to Solid Waste"
On March 16, 2010, Neil Seldman, President of the Institute for Self Reliance, a national nonprofit organization, spoke at the Clinton Inn. The event was entitled "A New Approach to Solid Waste." The purpose was to discuss "alternatives" to the issue of solid waste disposal in Scotland County.
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