Colonie NY Moves Closer to $100 Million Deal with Waste Connections

Date: July 29, 2011

Source: News Room

Waste Connections (Folsom, CA) moved a step closer in its deal to operate an Albany, NY area landfill as the Town of Colonie voted 6-1 to approve the contract. In a deal worth up to $100 million, Waste Connections will run the Colonie Landfill over a 25-year period. The town would receive an immediate $23 million signing payment, another $2.3 million annually for the first five years, and $1.1 million annually for the remaining 20 years. The move has strategic importance to Waste Connections which recently purchased County Waste and Recycling, one of the largest independent haulers in the region. The landfill would allow the company to internalize those volumes and give it a potentially significant amount of capacity in an area of the country that lacks landfill space and sees an increasing volume of its waste shipped elsewhere. As part of the deal and further tying there fortunes together, the town will also receive a "permit modification payment" of between $2 million and $10.8 million depending upon how much the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) allows the landfill to expand, (possibly up to 9.8 million cubic yards). The town also gets a $6 per ton premium for waste collected in excess of 170,500 tons annually.

See also: "Waste Connections Offers to Acquire Albany, NY Area Landfill in $100 Million Deal," (www.wasteinfo.com/news/wbj20110719C.htm).

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