BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 14, 2023
The Bucksport Town Council has approved a six-month ban on approving licenses for landfills. It took less than three minutes for the council to hold a public hearing Thursday on the proposed moratorium and then to vote 7-0 to approve it. The start of the ban is retroactive to March 23. The temporary ban was proposed after American Iron and Metal, which bought and demolished the local paper mill, floated the idea of reopening the mill’s former landfill and using it for construction debris. The landfill has been closed for eight years.