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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-02-10, Page 2news LartimewIsel,. Wedlan! la4 , Mirky no A —1htee 2 Farmers oppose toxic waste she on agricultural land... otrem sage 1 ccnapany's, waste is another's resource," quoted Chant, Unlike a company which, hopes to increase their business, the Waste Management Corporation is working to put itself .out of business, said Clanton* ultimate target of c, the corporation is . to reduce, exchange or recycle all waste so there is no longer a need for a toxic waste disposal site.. Several fanners raised their objections to big companies dumping their waste on prirhe agricultural land in rural areas beyond the urban centres where it is created, Russell Irvin Of Ashfield Township said he did, trot want : to hear again howhe was responsible for hazardous wastes because he is a consumer. "I don't want to hear that I'm• responsible for paying to dispose of • this waste," he argued: "There must be two sets of rules to this game," he pointed out: We an eat whether we own , a refrigerator • or drive a car. If everybody eats,, he said: the city dwellers should kick in a buck tohelp the farmer dispose of the waste created producing food, Dr. • Chant said he disagreed that farmers are not responsible for toxic waste. He believes that if costs are incurred .. in disposing of the waste createdproducing food, these costs should be included in the rice of food charged to the consumer. Chant said he has long .believed that Canada's. afood policy is wrong. Chant said he could not assurefarmers of. Ontario that prime agricultural land would not be used for the site, because the chase- teras ties which make land • good •for farming are also the required characteristtics of a secure site. Chant cited deep soil preferably clay, predictability and slowness of leachade as examples of such qualities, Bev Brown, a Turnberry 'township farm- er, suggested that if the corporation is -looking for A-1 farm land, some .of the best agricultural land in the province is buried beneath the highway 401 and commented, "'111 bet there's some real nice farm land up. around Brampton", referring to Premier Bill Davis' .home constituency. Tony McQuail, first vice-president of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture noted that the concentration of people using. the "goodies" produced by the companies creating the hazardous wastes, increases the closer you get to the more populated areas of the province. He said that while he is pleased that the Waste Management Cor- poration will not be using the Maelearen Report as a criteria, he does not want spatrse. population to be a major criteria either. McQuail said he is concerned that if it is safe enough to put this facility out in the rural areas on prime farm land, then it is fair Ashfield council set honorariums At the February meeting of Ashfield Township Council all members were present and . the followirng business was completed. By-law 11:1982 appointing the offrters and setting fire salaries was given third reading and passed with the following wage sched- ule: Reeve $1075; Deputy Reeve $1000; Councillors.S925 plus $27.50 each for special meetings attended; Clerk Treasurer S19,300; Road Superintendent$22,200;. John Nich- olson, Gordon. Saunders, $8.00 per hour; Bill. Mole, $6.75 per hour; part time operators, $6.15 per.casual hour and labour, $5.00 per hour. 5.. • Council approved the following grants for ,1982: Wingham and District Association for. Mentally Retarded, Silver Circle School; $375.00; Ontario . March of Dimes, $50.00; Salvation Army, $50:00; St. Johns Ambu- lance, , ,S50.00; Blyth Centre for the Arts, 550.00; Dungannon Agricultural Society, S100.00; Lucknow Agricultural Society, - S100.00.. Road accounts of $26,989.21; General Accounts and File Drain Loans of . $68,200 were approved. for,.payment. Corrections A picture published in the Sentinel last week identified the home of Peter Cook as being previously owned by John Hendrick at the time the picture was taken in 1910, when in fact the home was previously owned. by John Habick. A picture in last week's issue of the Sentinel incorrectly identified Joel Slofstra as Joe Slofstta. • In a news story carried in last week's issue of the Sentinel, the. late T. J. Salkeld was described as being in his 79th year when in fact he died in his 97th year. •. The Sentinel apologizes for any inconven- ience these errors may have caused. This week send our FTD beart., YkowerSrm Bou Valentines Day is Sunday, February 14. 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Distrustful of the Davis' government because of the manner in which the South; Cayuga proposal was handled, they are critical of Chant and the Conservative government, Ashfield farmer, Hary Livingston, wanted to , know why the Waste Management Corporation was considering sites so near large bodies of water indicating that both South Cayuga and Ashfield Township are. near great lakes. When Dr. Chant said no sites had been chosen and that he was not considering any sites at the present time, Livingston asked again why locate the site near a lake? Chant repeated that Ashfield is not on a list and that the people of the area would have to believe him when he says that the entire province is being considered for a site. Livingston remarked: "Well, 1 don't believe you." Merle Gunby, a director on the Ontario Federation of Agriculture executive and a past president of the Huron County Federa- tion of Agriculture, asked whether the horror stories he has read about involving disposal sites in Europe were accurate and Dr. Chant replied that the sites in Europe are not controlling all of the waste. He said holland ,, is •still ocean dumping its hazardous waste. He did point out that ,the plant in West Germany has a very good method of control- ling all waste coning into the plant but neither this plant nor the one in Denmark have a full complex of available technology. Chant said the Waste Management Cor- poration has consultants- working now to determine the most technically advanced methods of detoxifying the waste so that all waste coming to the plan would be neutra- lized to the greatest extent possible, Chant said the corporation is no longer operating on the premise sof one central location to handle • all of the province's industrial waste. 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