Please take a moment, take a deep breath and step back from your busy legislative agenda.
We have so much to be proud of in our great state: Sixty-eight remarkable State Parks, mountains, lakes, rivers, hiking trails and open spaces that draw tourists from all over the state, across the country and around the world.
We need your help NOW to protect those very assets.
Please “Put NH’s Interests First” and act in a bipartisan way to Pass HB 177.
HB 177 will not solve all our solid waste management challenges, it isn’t intended to, but it will protect our irreplaceable and invaluable 68 State Parks while we work on the broader set of issues.
We need your courage, your vision and your leadership to stand up for what makes NH the truly great state that it is.
Thank you for your service and commitment to to New Hampshire.
TOP 10 REASONS TO SUPPORT AND PASS HB 177 (Providing a 2 mile buffer protecting State Parks from any new landfill development)
10. State Parks and landfills are incompatible land uses and need to be kept separate
9. There is no landfill capacity issue….there is no landfill capacity issue….there is no landfill capacity issue
8. Private Developers want to bury 49% of “out of state” trash next to our NH mountains, lakes and State Parks – you should be as outraged as your voters are and stop this despicable practice
7. State Parks are the engine behind our booming outdoor recreation economy and the lifeblood of the thousands of NH small businesses that benefit from them
6. NHDES landfill siting regulations are inadequate and need legislative action (a 100 foot setback between a State Park and a landfill is ridiculously ineffective)
5. “State of the Art” landfill technology is not enough to protect our State Parks – 154,000 gallons of poisonous leachate liquid was spilled earlier this month at the NCES landfill in Bethlehem close to the Ammonoosuc River, according to the NH DES.
4. NH does not need a new “greenfield” landfill development – for-profit, out of state developers do
3. Passing HB 177 will protect some of NH’s greatest assets for future generations of residents and tourists at NO COST to taxpayers
2. Eleven other states have already enacted similar legislation in recognition that protecting precious State Parks and limited natural resources requires conscious preventative action
1. It’s really not that complicated – landfills should not be sited next to State Parks!
