MIAMI (WSVN) – A brand new trash incinerator was as soon as once more the subject of debate in a Miami-Dade County fee assembly on Monday.
After Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s resolution to withdraw her plans of constructing the incinerator close to Miramar, folks from throughout the county gathered on the Commissioner’s assembly to voice their disdain.
“I firmly consider that public lands belong in public palms,” mentioned a resident.
“We’re digging our personal graves,” mentioned one other resident.
“I ask that this incinerator not be constructed close to our borders,” mentioned one other resident.
“An incinerator shouldn’t be desired,” mentioned a resident. “This could ease the minds of the residents who plead with us regularly to protect the standard of life for them and their households, a few of whom endure extreme respiratory diseases. It’s not geography, it’s geology.”
Miramar residents and metropolis officers have lengthy voiced their reservations, citing issues concerning the security and environmental danger that constructing the incinerator on county traces poses.
A hearth destroyed the county’s outdated plant in Doral again in 2023. The Fee had mulled over changing the incinerator on the identical web site because the outdated one till President’s Trump’s son, Eric Trump, met with Miami-Dade County Commissioner Juan Carlos Bermudez and criticized the plan.
In his opposition, Eric acknowledged the incinerator can be constructed solely three miles away from Trump Nationwide Doral.
Another choice being thought of by commissioners can be to construct the incinerator on the outdated web site of the Opa-Locka West Airport, which additionally faces criticism.
“The merchandise merely interprets to no incinerator, wherever,” mentioned one of many residents through the Monday assembly.
The Miami-Dade County Board of Commissioners is anticipated to make a remaining resolution on February nineteenth.
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