The company seeking to build a power-generating incinerator plant in Seneca County has sued the Town of Romulus and its Zoning Board of Appeals.
The board overturned a zoning officer’s initial ruling that the incinerator would be a renewable energy project, and would not be “noxious or injurious” to the community.
Governor Cuomo and U.S. Senator Charles Schumer both oppose the project, and two state lawmakers have introduced bills in the state legislature to block it. Opponents say the large-scale incinerator plant would ruin the tourism-based economy of the Finger Lakes and they don’t want truck and trainloads of garbage brought in to the facility.
Circular EnerG of Rochester wants to build the incinerator-to-electricity plant at the former Seneca Army Depot site.