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Consutech

January 27, 2025

New company assesses incinerator

Nearly three years after the government contracted the Virginia company Consutech Systems to supply parts to repair the fire-damaged incinerator in Pockwood Pond, many of the parts have not arrived …

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by Rushton Skinner
December 5, 2024

No end in sight for incinerator fix

Nearly three years after a fire shut down the Pockwood Pond incinerator, the Virginia company hired to supply replacement parts still has not delivered most of them, and the government …

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by Rushton Skinner
August 30, 2024

Dumpsite to be expanded

As workers loaded trash on Monday behind the incinerator building in Pockwood Pond, Waste Management Director Marcus Solomon pointed up to a wooded area on the nearby hillside. The site, …

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by Rushton Skinner
December 27, 2023

The new waste director’s trial by fire

Waste Management Director Marcus Solomon stood with his back to the non-operational incinerator December 14, watching a front-end loader scrape clean the dumpsite tipping area at Pockwood Pond. He crossed …

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by Rushton Skinner
December 1, 2023

Incinerator gets parts, but others still needed

As waste crises plague the territory’s two most populated islands, government is working to complete long-delayed repairs to the Tortola incinerator and to bring Virgin Gorda a safer landfill, according …

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by Rushton Skinner
September 29, 2023

Waste boss visits incinerator company

As part of efforts to repair the incinerator in Pockwood Pond by the end of the year, officials from the Department of Waste Management recently visited the plant’s manufacturer in …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS
Consutech
April 27, 2021

Malone grilled on pollution scrubber

The Pockwood Pond incinerator is back burning trash after six weeks offline, but Health and Social Development Minister Carvin Malone came under fire in the House of Assembly last week …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK
pockwood pond incinerator scrubber
April 18, 2019

Incinerator repairs could hinge on US firm with troubled history

This article originally appeared in the Beacon’s print edition on April 11. After the Pockwood Pond incinerator was badly damaged in a fire last November, government officials said repairs would …

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by Amanda Ulrich
Pockwood Pond
February 18, 2019

Skelton looks to chart new path with PVIM

The Progressive Virgin Islands Movement was born late last year when legislators Ronnie Skelton and Mitch Turnbull publicly broke rank with the governing National Democratic Party, which Mr. Skelton helped …

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by Amanda Ulrich

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