May 31, 2013
The barrage of public relations and damage control has begun in what may be just the tip of the drill bit. On its website, Minuteman Environmental Services’s (MES President, Brian Bolus, posted a letter to its customers. Bolus again blames former employees as he did in the press release dated May 30, 2013 “Several months ago I became aware that the Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General (OAG) was questioning several former, disgruntled employees of Minuteman Environmental Services.” (In the press release Bolus stated it was 18 months ago, so that puts it at some point late in 2011). The posted customer letter further states, MES hired a former United States Attorney, now engaged in private practice, to represent them. Mighty big guns to handle a simple case of disgruntled […]
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February 20, 2013
You have to wonder whether Sunbury mayor, Dave Persing, really has any very good idea—or even a glimmer of moral compass—about what might be involved in the Clean Harbors construction of a Marcellus Shale Waste Processing Facility smack-dab in the middle of that small city. Planned for the long-idled and stunning eyesore, the Knight-Celotex fiberboard thermal insulation plant shuttered its doors and declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April, 2009 (Knight-Celotex files for bankuptcy » News » The Daily Item, Sunbury, PA), but had stopped operations way back in November 2008—well over four years ago. The 22-acre site was then purchased by John Moran of Moran Industries Warehouse and Distribution Services (Moran Industries) via a subsidiary company—JDM Acquisitions —for $525,000 in April of 2011—two years after the bankruptcy. But as early as January, 2011, it was clear that […]
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