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Freedom Township residents urge county to seek site exemption from proposed methane biodigester
Summary
Multiple Freedom Township residents told the board the Materials Management Plan should include a site exemption to prevent methane-producing biodigesters in their township, citing pipelines, fuel storage, contaminated soils, wetlands and limited local emergency response capacity.
Residents from Freedom Township and surrounding rural areas urged the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners on Dec. 3 to work closely with the Materials Management Planning Committee (MMPC) to secure a written site exemption in the county Materials Management Plan (MMP) that would block methane-producing biodigesters in Freedom Township.
Carol Westfall told the board that the township faces an unusually dense set of hazards — pipelines, a gas plant, fuel storage tanks, gravel mines, PCB-contaminated soil and high…
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