HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-06-20, Page 10Page • 10--Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, June 20, 1979
Charged with illegal disposal of waste
BY MURRAY GAUNT
Two firms have been charged with
illegally disposing of about 1S,000
gallons of liquid industrial wastes on a
site for which the Ontario Government
refused them a dumping licence last
year.
The two companies, Crawford Alli-
ed Industries Ltd. and Superior Sand
and Gravel, have appealed the Gov-
ernment's licensing decision and,
since November, have been fighting
their case before the provincial
Environmental Appeal Board. The
'hearings probably will be completed
some time in the fall.
The Ontario Environmental Assess-
ment Board rejected the firms'
proposal to create a landfill operation
on, 600 acres of largely worked -out
sand and gravel pits on Keele Street at
.Maple, just north of Toronto, in April
of 1978.
Charged along with Crawford and
Superior is another company, Refluent
Investments. Limited, which carries on
business under the name of A & A
Liquid Waste Removal Co., and an
individual, Murray K. Roberts.
Rent review will remain indefinitely
in Ontario, although allowable rent
increases could g� higher than the
existing sii " per -bent,--un'd'er steps• •
taken this week by a committee
studying new -landlord-tenant legisla-
tion.
The Cabinet has been given the
power to raise or lower the six per cent
limit on rent increases as early as
January 1, 1980.
The Minister of Natural Resources
introduced the Aggregates Act, as a
result of the Report of the Ontario
Mineral Aggregate Working Party as
submitted to the Minister •in Decem-
ber, 1976.
The Working Party was established
to recommend an effective and broad-
ly acceptable mineral aggregate re-
source management policy for the
Province of Ontario.
Many of the features of the Report
and of this Bill are the result of the
experience gained by the various
interests concerned with The Pits and
Quarries Control Act, 1971.
The new Act has three purposes:
1. To provide for the management of
the aggregate and Crown aggregate
resources of Ontario.
2. To control and regulate pits and
quarries, wayside pits and quarries
and Crown aggregate pits and quar-
ries.
3. To require the rehabilitation of land
from which aggregate or Crown aggre-
gate has been excavated.
This act isi lengthy, and I am sure,
will be somewhat controversial in
some of its proisions. It will not be
passed' before -the, summer break.
The Ontario Government should sue
Reed Ltd. to establish the company's
Carling sponsors
Blyth fiddle
festival
The Blyth Centre for,
the Arts has received a
grant for $500 .from the
Carling Community Arts
Foundation to help defray:
the costs of the. Centre's
second annual Fiddle and
Step dance. estival held
June 1 81-2 in the Blyth
Memorial Hall. The.
Carling Community Arts
Foundation was
establishedto encourage
events of multi -cultural
significance. Ed
Paquette, regional
representative of the
Carling Foundation,
delivered a cheque to Jan
Dutton, administrator of
the Festival .with wishes
for the continued success
of the Festival.
This . year's fiddle
festival built on last
year's success by at-
tracting over one hun-
dred competitors and,
near capacity crowds, for.
both nightsof com-
petition.
Dancers. and
fiddlers came frog» as far
away as . Sarnia, Kit-
chener and London to
compete. Over $1,000 in.
prize money was
distributed to winners in
eight categories.
The.. surnme:r season of
the Blyth Centre for the
Arts Festival opens June
29 with "This . Foreign
Land". Tickets and
reservations are
available from the box
office by calling 523-9300.
Study effect of gas
.
from landfill sites
The effects of gas which
can originate from ..waste
buried in landfill sites are
being studied by an Environ-
ment Ontario research team.
The Ministry is directing a
three-year, $287,500 project
funded by the Provincial
Lottery, Environment Min -
Aster Dr. Harry C. Parrott
announced today.
"This project is an exten-
sion of my Ministry's contin-
uing efforts to find better and
new ways to manage all
forms of waste," said Dr.
Patrott.. -
The project is focused' on
the possible effects of
waste -generated gas on land
and buildings adjacent to
landfill sites. A contract for
the project has been awarded
to Hydrology Consultants
Limited of Missisauga as
the prime consultant, and
$145,000 has been provided
for the first phase.
"New information we ob-
tain will assist in planning
the establishment of struct-
ures near completed landfill
sites."
1 After an assessment of all.
past research on the subject,
Hydrology Consultants Lim-
ited will.; elect various sites,
of different geological, clim-
atic and moisture conditions
and of different age, size,
depth and type.
responsibility for mercury pollution
from. its Dryden pulp and' paper mill, a
senior provincial official suggested
this week.
Duncan Allan, assistant deputy
minister of Industry and Tourism, said
the action may be a way to establish
the legal liability a prospective buyer
of the plant could expect to assume in
taking it over.
He told the Legislature's standing
committee on resources development
that Government officials have spoken
to five potential buyers who are
worried about being held accountable
for mercury pollution discharged until
1975 into. the English-Wabigoon river
system.
The committee has been struggling
with what to do about Reed and the
future of Dryden, a one -industry town
in Northwestern Ontario. Originally, it
was to examine pollution control
deadlines for.the firm, but that issue
has been overshadowed by the need to
make certain a pulp and paper
company survives in the area.
A federal investigation has been
launched into reports that fluoride
pollution on Cornwall Island' from a
'U.S. aluminum smelter . has been.
killing cows, vegetation and impairing
thehealth of Indians on the island.
Environment Minister Harry Panrr6t,
when questioned as to whether testing '
has been done on the island and
whether results are available regard-
ing the health of children there, has
• promised to report back to the
Legislation when this information is
available.
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