Miami-Dade trash incinerator battle heating up after consultant report NBC 6 South Florida [Video]

The battle is on over where to put a waste-to-energy incinerator in Miami-Dade County, and a consultant’s report examining three proposed sites is giving all sides new ammunition.

Leaders from the two less complicated and challenging sites are lobbing salvos in each other’s direction, as Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has said she will delay her recommendation until September — after she hopes to win re-election with a majority vote in August.

That delay is not flying with at least one commissioner, who represents Doral, while the mayor of Miramar is saying the consultant report reaffirms why the site near his city should be off-limits.

No one welcomes the prospect of hauling and burning 4,000 tons of trash a day in their community.

But the fire that destroyed a waste-to-energy plant in Doral last year, along with landfills that are quickly filling up, has added urgency to the county’s plan to build a new $1.5 …