Richmond expansion is dead

Ontario’s Environment Minister has refused Waste Management’s request to expand the Richmond Landfill. The reason, it is sitting on fractured limestone and she wants to protect water. I am attaching the article which appeared in the Belleville Intelligencer.
I find it very disturbing none of the local residents will admit or deal with the local farms, including a mega hog farm which sits on the shores of Hay Bay, and on that same fractured limestone. All of that contamination makes its way into Lake Ontario.
Environment Canada’s, Environmental Protection Branch has tried to bring the matter to the forefront in their efforts to protect fish habitat. Why isn’t the provincial environment minister looking at agriculture pollution? Do we really need all of these farms?


Here is the piece from the paper.
Regards, Donna
Richmond expansion is dead
By Samantha Craggs The Intelligencer
Local News – Saturday, November 04, 2006 @ 10:00
Environment Minister Laurel Broten has killed the Richmond landfill proposal.
In a letter sent Friday, Broten told Waste Management of Canada it could not withdraw and resubmit its proposal, and that the proposal it has submitted is rejected.
Waste Management of Canada, who applied to expand the Napanee site to hold 750,000 tonnes of solid waste per year, could go back to the drawing board and search for new information, or take legal action. But for the time being from the Environment Minister


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