Image via WikipediaElbert County residents fought hard against a plan to build a waste-to-energy incinerator and 39-acre landfill west of Elberton by funding lawsuits, signing petitions and talking to their neighbors.GreenFirst announced its decision a week after winning a ruling in one of the four lawsuits spawned by the proposal. Northern Circuit Superior Court Judge Jeffery Malcom rejected residents' efforts to hold a referendum on Elbert County government policies that cleared the way for the incinerator.
Plant Granite, which the company planned to build off Georgia Highway 72 between Elberton and Carlton, would have burned garbage and wood to generate electricity, and would have disposed of the ash in an on-site landfill.
But GreenFirst decided to abandon the incinerator plan when Covanta, the company that would have operated the plant, backed out of the project.
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