The IESI landfill in Lower Saucon Township is well down the road in obtaining all the approvals needed to build a methane-to-energy plant on the landfill site, as reported in today’s edition of The Express-Times.
The plant would convert the methan gas prodeced by the landfill’s rotting garbage.

This whole history of this project is as rotten as that of - well, rotting garbage, or of limburger cheese.  It is the next landfill methane-to-energy facility planned after the one, up and operating, on the site of the Waste-Management/Grand Central Sanitary Landfill located in Plainfield Township, but using neighboring Pen Argyl Borough’s waste-water plant for the disposal and “treatment” of landfill leachate.

This “treated” water is then released into a couple of creeks that empty into the Delaware Rivers, a few miles away.

This this is the same water then drawn downtown by the Easton Water “Treatment” plant - the same water Easton and surrounding Suburban Water Co. see squigly things moving and floating around in a glass of it.

The very evening Pen Argyl Boro Council members - whose member I forced to recluse himself from voting (He had a conflict of interest arising from his executive position with the Green Knight Economic Development Corporation (GKEDC).

GKEDC operates the methane-to-energy plant owned by WM/GCS.

Council split 4-4 on the vote on allowing WM/GCS to use the boro’s plant, a tie broken by the boro’s president, Jim Wilson.

Before Wilson cast his vote, boro plant employees attending the meeting made an announcement warning that the bacteria required to break-down and treat the plant’s waste had died.

The meeting was conducted via a telephone conferencing hook-up between boro council and Northamtpton County Executive Glenn Reibman and the county’s Department of Community and Economic Development Director Craig Weintraub, from Reibman’s executive offices in the Government Center.

Much of the stench arising from the county-boro-WM/GCS deal is from is from the excess profit the City of Bethlehem enjoyed when it sold the landfill to IESI.

Because the profit was illegal, made through what in the financial industry is called “burning the yield on tax-exempt bonds floated by Bethlehem. the IRS levied a fine of $13 million on the city, further wrecking its finances.

IESI has requested an air-quality permit from Lower Saucon Township where the landfill is located on Applebutter Road.

IESI’s request will be heard by the township’s board of supervisors at 7:00 this evening at Borough Hall.

A project of this kind was planned by a Chrin Brothers Landfill-Glendon Borough-Northampton County partnership on the boro property of the Glendon Business Center Development, another joint Northampton County-Lehigh Valley Economic Development project, benefiting the Chrin Brothers-Glendon Business partnership.

The project was approved by Glendon Borough Council, but subsequently torpedoed by me through exposure in my various billybytes publications.

As payback for political campaign contributions for war chests and slush funds, Northampton County officials capped the “tipping fee” the county’s three landfills kick back to it at 3%, far below the fee charged by other Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, landfills for the same services.