MARIGOT – The French state has made available €3 million ($3.57 million at the current rate of exchange) for the…
Browsing: Environment
PHILIPSBURG – Incineration of garbage, the production of electricity from waste and mining the existing landfill are part of the…
PHILIPSBURG – A research team from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden is in St. Maarten to conduct a study…
PHILIPSBURG – The Ministry of Public Housing, Urban Planning, Environment and Infrastructure (VROMI) does not spend a word on the…
By Hilbert Haar In June 2008 I wrote an article under the headline “Landfill remains until the end of 2010.”…
By Hilbert Haar An alert reader pointed out to me that the price the waste-to-energy plant would charge GEBE for…
By Hilbert Haar The dump remains a hot item and for good reason. For decades dump fires have affected the…
PHILIPSBURG – “Dear His Majesty King Willem Alexander, His Excellency the Governor Eugene Holiday, Council of Ministers, Honorable Members of…
PHILIPSBURG – A fire on the post-Irma dumpsite on Pond Island ignited on Tuesday night and continued to be a…
By Hilbert Haar PHILIPSBURG – Hurricane Irma put the Rainforest Adventure Park to the test in September of last year…
