In countersuit, owners of shuttered Hampden waste plant blame problems on contractor

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 16, 2020

The owners of the recently shuttered Hampden waste plant are blaming many of its financial problems on a contractor that staffed and ran the facility, arguing in court documents that the contractor hired and then poorly supervised unqualified workers at the plant. In a counter lawsuit filed Wednesday, Coastal Resources alleged contractor NAES breached its contract with substandard work. It was the latest twist for a young facility that was once billed as a sustainable means to keeping the trash from more than 100 Maine towns out of the landfill, but that is now mired in financial problems and uncertainty about its future.