Category: Waste disposal
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Waste Management really wants to keep dumping at an expanded Monarch Hill – Broward, Creek poised to go along
By Dan Christensen
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Waste Management wants deal with Broward to allow Monarch Hill dump to rise as much as another ten stories
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
After Waste Management’s four-year push toward a significant expansion of its Monarch Hill dump was yanked from the Broward Commission’s Tuesday agenda, the immediate question was why? The answer now appears to be that the $20-billion, Houston-based garbage disposal company is looking to make a deal. -
Broward commission postpones high-profile vote on ’emotional issue’ of mountainous north county dump
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
CLICK THROUGH TO SEE 11 A.M. UPDATE To dump, nor not to dump. That is the question. At 1:30 Tuesday afternoon, giant Waste Management will ask the Broward County Commission to alter the county’s land use designation on the site of a decommissioned waste-to-energy plant on company property that could provide it with 24.2 acres of new dumping ground adjacent to its towering Monarch Hill landfill in North Broward. -
Broward Chief Judge Tuter overturns $20 million jury verdict for Palm Beach trash tycoon, boosting Waste Management
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Call it the case of the $20 million oops. -
Broward judge rules in favor of Waste Management and against Ron Bergeron in long-running recycling business dispute
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Six acrimonious years of litigation that climaxed last month in a four-week trial, ended Friday when a Broward judge ruled there was no evidence that Waste Management and its co-defendants conspired to ruin the recycling business of Davie businessman Ron Bergeron. -
Blockbuster civil trial of Bergeron vs Waste Management finally gets underway – six years after case was filed
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Two floors below the courtroom where the high-profile sentencing trial of the Parkland school killer got underway Monday, opening arguments were heard in the blockbuster civil trial about the $525-million trash disposal takeover that preceded the widespread decline of recycling in Broward.
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