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Executive and directors of East Wawanosh Federation of Agriculture elected at Thursday’s
annual meeting Include, from left: Simon Sleeker, vice president; Barry Elliot, president; Len
Palmer; Donald Dow, past president; Lome Scott, secretary-treasurer; Ivan Dow, Ian Scott;
Roger Bieman; Chris Palmer, OFA regional director; and Keith Black. - Photo by Merle Gunby
HFA takes up county’s challenge
Huron County Federation of
Agriculture has taken up the
challenge to be part of the process
of the county’s Waste Management
Master Plan after a meeting in
Walton Thursday to discuss waste
management.
County Engineer Denis Merrall,
who with Joanne Richter, Waste
Management Masterplan co-ordin
ator, spoke to the 60 members of
the Federation on the current state
of the Waste Management Master
plan Study, issued the challenge to
the Federation. He invited the
Federation to help inform the farm
population about what was happen
ing and give the farm voice more
input in the planning process. The
county study seeks input from the
Federation and individuals, he said
because “you’ll have to live with
the cost of it”. He suggested the
Federation take a formal role in the
rest of the study process and help
analyze the impact on farmers and
give input into the preferred waste
management system from the point
of view of farmers.
The Federation took up the
challenge with several people at
the meeting volunteering to sit on a
committee that will work with the
Federation’s environment commit
tee to take part in the county study.
Mr. Merrall said he regretted the
county study was moving so slowly
but much of the slow pace is due to
six-month delays in approval of the
Stage 2A report by provincial
ministries involved. Noting the
faces in the crowd of many people,
particularly in Grey Township, who
were in areas identified in that
report as possible sites for a
facility, Mr. Merrall said he regret
ted not being able to give them
more definite answers that their
area was a preferred site or was
not. He said the study process is
“so long that the effected people
are hurt for a long time" by the
waiting.
While he said he couldn’t pre
judge what would be in the Stage
2B report which will make recom
mendations on what systems of
waste management or waste reduc
tion could be employed as well as
identifying possible landfill sites,
his personal projection was that
there would be a recommendation
for recycling in the report. He also
suggested there will be a serious
look at the composting of kitchen
waste. There would likely be a
recommendation for a landfill site
for the remaining garbage. He said
incineration is unlikely because of
the high costs in building an
incinerator and the low volume of
garbage the county has for keeping
such a facility going.
Others argued in favour of
Energy from Waste (EFW) inciner
ation. Mason Bailey of Blyth ar
gued the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture (OFA) policy doesn’t
include any landfill option. He
pointed out that emissions from a
new EFW plant in Burnaby, B.C.
are several times cleaner than the
air in downtown Toronto. He
wondered if the county had explor
ed ways to co-operate with neigh
bouring municipalities to get vol
umes large enough to keep an EFW
plant going. Wouldn’t it be chea
per, he wondered, for Huron to
transport its garbage to somebody
else’s EFW site and pay them to
use it?
Roger George, President of the
OFA said it is the Federation’s
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policy to avoid landfill sites and
that the absolute elimination of
landfill will ultimately be possible.
Mr. Merrall said the County of
Halton had decided to transport its
garbage to an incinerator in New
York and the cost amounted to $1
million a month despite a good
recycling program. Since Huron
has about one-fifth of Halton’s
population it could expect to look at
a cost of $200,000 a month for
incineration and would face a
longer haul to an incinerator. There
are no existing incinerators that
could take Huron’s garbage with
out holding an environmental hear
ing, he said.
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1991. PAGE 15.
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