Help Protect The Catskills

News from a Concerned Catskill Coalition:

Stop Hughes Energy’s Proposed Waste Plant

The Problem

A for-profit company is proposing a 124,500 sq ft industrial waste-to-fuel plant straddling the border of Delaware and Greene counties. The 7-story proposed plant sited on a rural 40-acre parcel in Grand Gorge, NY would truck in and process up to 175,000 tons of municipal waste per year to be turned into fiber and burnable pellets through an unproven autoclave steam process.

This watershed-threatening facility would add significant traffic, noise, air pollution and water infrastructure burdens to our communities and fragile ecosystems by importing unregulated waste from a 50-mile radius.

This would be the first-ever plant of its kind and scale in the United States.

 As a community we refuse to be the testing ground.

Hughes Energy Group is proposing a disastrous waste-to-fuel facility at the edge of our forever-wild Catskills forests—and uphill from the drinking water of 9 million+ New Yorkers.

The DEC is taking public comments NOW

Hughes has refused DEC’s request to extend the public comment period. Make your voices heard!

You can send comments more than once. PLEASE send them before Thanksgiving.
The comment period closes November 30 – the same day DEC decides.