Waste and Pollution Management

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?

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You can help change Canada’s “No” to a “Yes!”

There?s still time to change Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn?s mind and convince him to support a United Nations moratorium on the destructive bottom trawl fishery in International waters. The vote will take place at the United Nations General Assembly meeting from November 17-22 2006. Even though Minister Hearn has said Canada won?t support the moratorium, momentum is building within the international community to back the UN resolution to put the brakes on this highly destructive fishing practice. The U.S., Australia, Norway, Pacific Island Countries, Brazil, South Africa, Germany, New Zealand, and many other nations support the moratorium. Canada is currently aligned with Spain in opposing a moratorium.

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