Burlco Pursues Shared Services Approach to Energy Savings

Freeholder director asks bridge commission to weigh potential energy savings for residents and businesses.

  Burlington County Freeholder Director Joe Donnelly this week announced he has called upon the Burlington County Bridge Commission to provide technical assistance to municipalities that are considering community-wide energy aggregate contracts to procure utility bill savings for their residents and businesses. Donnelly also reached out to Commission Chairman John B. Comegno II and asked that the commission evaluate the merits for a countywide or multi-town energy aggregate program, to determine if such an arrangement, if found to be feasible, could generate even greater savings to homeowners. “State deregulation has opened the door for aggregate energy contracts, and recent media reports suggest that we could be looking at significant …

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10:46 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013

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BurlCo Trash Comes Home

An amendment passed by freeholders will mean all trash generated in the county will stay in the county.

Although counterintuitive, more trash is a good thing for taxpayers and the environment. That's because the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders last week amended the District Solid Waste Plan to ensure that all waste generated by county residents, businesses and institutions, is disposed of in the county, as opposed to being hauled out-of-county. This move will mean our landfills in Florence and Mansfield will see heightened volume, increased revenues, and a long-term, reliable source of waste on which to base future improvements. It's a controversial topic nationwide, and it's called "flow control." Some business owners and private haulers see it as a monopolistic power-grab by government, restricting their choice to dispose of …

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