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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-03-22, Page 3News and Views THE HURON EXPOSITOR, March 22, 1995 J SEAFORIHMEATMAF KET 1 New Zealand Red COD FILLETS 3.89 lb SALMON STEAKS 4.99 lb FRESH SIDE RIBS 2.29 Ib Deli Sliced ROAST BEEF 4.99 Ib Fresh CHICKEN WINGS 2.39 lb Individually Wrapped - Frozen CHICKEN BREAST 2.59 lb. Storemade BREAKFAST SAUSAGE 3.29 Ib Winter hours: Monday - CLOSED, Tuesday - Friday 9-6, Saturday 9-5 • dvllle MEETING OVER LANDFILL - The county's waste management project co-ordinator received an earful from residents who were upset with the potential site for a future county landfill. The meeting was held in Dungannon. Landfill opponents distrust process by MONA IRWIN A meeting Saturday to discuss the 1. st remaining proposed landfill site in Huron County turned hostile when area residents began making accusations of government indiffer- ence and evasions. About 70 people attended the meeting, held in Dungannon. Among those present were members of the Huron County Planning and Development Committee and repre- sentatives of Gore and Storrie Limited, the consulting engineering firm that is conducting the tests on Site A3. Several audience members bluntly told Craig Metzger, the county waste management project co- ordinator, that they did not trust him nor any other government representative and they wanted to select a few representatives of the Concerned Citizens of Ashfield Twp. and Area to 'work right along with you when.moro--taets are run on the site. Metzger said he had no objection to passing along the test results but 'whether you get on the property depends on the owner.' One resident also recommended that the Planning and Development Committee approach Huron County) Council about getting funding for a second opinion about the suitability of Site A3 (Part lot 4, Conc. 13, and Part Lots 4/5, Conc. 14, Ashfield Twp.), an irregularly- shaped 86.5 -acre (35 ha) piece of land near the Huron -Bruce bound- ary. Metzger told the crowd tests have eliminated the rest of the 11 poss- ible sites first selected. More drill- ing tests will be done on Site A3 this spring. If the results eliminate Site 3A, the restrictions will be loosened about what types of land can be used for a landfill site, and Metzger and his staff will take another look at the county on the basis of those new restrictions. As of December 1994, about $950,000 has been spent in the search for a new site, with Huron's share about half. If A3 is still under consideration after the drilling, more tests - look- ing at such things as local biology, land use, social impact, heritage and surface water - will be run. If nothing goes wrong, the earliest the site could be operating will be 1998, Metzger said. A site monitor- ing committee, made up of local residents, would be set up to decide the operating details (such as the hours of operation) and bring any problems to the attention of Huron County Council. If the site is approved, it is expected to be in use for approxi- mately 40 years. Doug Hackett, who lives a block away from the proposed site, said the whole process is perplexing. Matthew Staehll ...why not incinerators? Doug Hackett ...lives near site. "It makes no sense to truck all the ;arbage from the south to the north- ,;rnmost section of the county, or to build and maintain roads for that purpose, whcn the biggest part of the garbage is in the south," he said. Richard Payne, co-chair of the Concerned Citizens of Ashfield Twp. and Area, said "I don't think anybody - Ashfield, Colborne, wherever - wants a dump anywhere. We'd prefer an alternative." He cited recent quotes by Huron County Coun. Mason Bailey, who recommended delaying the search for a landfill site while garbage disposal methods such as inciner- ation are Looked into. Metzger said the Ministry of the Environment has not sanctioned such disposal methods, and there- fore they cannot be seriously con- sidered. That's a stance area resident Matthew Stachling doesn't under- stand. Stachling lives about 5 km away from the proposed site. In an interview after the meeting, he said numerous studies by repu- table experts from Germany, Switzerland and France have shown that an energetic recycling cam- paign, combined with incinerators - particularly those built after 1985 - provides the most efficient way of dealing with garbage. It also elimin- ates the need for transportation, because incineration plans and recycling facilities can be set up wherever they're needed, unlike a landfill site. On most European store shelves, he said, you'll find very few items that aren't made from 100 per cent recycled materials. That's because for a long time, anything not made from recycled materials was more expensive - unlike in North America. Staehli also pointed on' that Europe has much more rigorous environmental standards than North America - partly because much of Europe is already backed into a comer. and his wife visited Switzer 1 'a few, years ago, and while til were in one ' of the larger cities, they parked their car in an underground parking lot. When they went to retrieve it, the lot was locked - because of dangerously high air pollution levels. It • /as several hours before they got their car. And last year, his sister-in-law wrote that. the local school was closed for the same reason - the air was so dirty it was deemed unsafe to let the children go to school. "That's why we came here," he said. "I don't want my children to have to face those problems. We still have the opportunity to solve them." But he's been told the NDP "isn't prepared to spend money" researching incinceration. "This is a big disappointment," he said, adding that he initially supported the NDP because of their strong pro -environment stance. Rob McQueen, who runs an organic farm near the proposed site, said if A3 is approved, he and his family will be living between two dumpsites (the existing one is on Conc. 6). One of the things he's concerned about is whether the list of approved landfill site users can be amended to add more users. Metzger said it can, but there's a set process, that includes public meetings and• the approval of the Minister of the Environment. Audi- ence members didn't sound impressed, saying Huron County Council would be more likely to listen to them than Queen's Park. In an interview after the meeting, McQueen said his family already suffers from chronic health prob- lems. If Site A3 becomes the next landfill site, "we'd be relegated to drinking bottled water because we couldn't take a chance on a mis- take," referring to the possibility of seepage from the landfill site into local wells. Four hunting charges in Huron The Wingham Area Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources has released its results of the Controlled Deer Hunts in Wildlife Manage- ment Units 85 (Huron County and Minto Twp) and WMU 86. (Perth county) The results are based on results from the mandatory reports returned by hunters who partici- pated in the shotgun hunts during Nov. 7 to Nov. 11 (WMU 85) and Dec. 5 to Dec 9 (WMU 86). These results do no include those deer harvested by archers. In WMU, there were 2337 con- trolled deer -hunt tags issued with a harvest resulting in 916 deer. This translates into a 39 per cent success rate. A There were 749 tags issued in WMU 86 with a harvest of 265 deer or a 35 per cent success rate. Mike Malhiot, arca biologist states that "Both counties are sup- porting a healthy number of deer. A controlled hunt is a useful tool in maintaining a stable deer herd while attempting a balance concern about crop damage and vehicle collisions. Although forest cover in Perth County is quite low (about nine per cent of the land arca), the county still supports a population in the neighbourhood of 2500 deer. In Huron County, where forest cover is significantly greater (17 per cent of the land arca), the deer popula- tion is estimated to be about 9000 animals." Conservation and Deputy Conser- vation officers reported a low occurrence of incidents during the hunts. In total there were four charges laid during the Huron Con- trolled Hunt and no charges laid in the Perth Controlled Hunt. People who purchased outdoors cards in the 1993 should make sure that all information on their card is correct. Those cards will expire at the end of this year, and it is important that the Outdoors Card Centre has your current mailing address. People wishing to inform the Centre of their address change or other changes can call 1-800- 387-7011. 1A Everything on his farm is raised organically, including the livestock, McQueen said, and it has alleviated his family's health problems. "To put a dump there is to defeat everything I've tried to do," he said. He also wants to know what happened to the democratic process. At a meeting a week ago, 87 people voted against the landfill site being put in Ashfield Twp. and one voted 'undecided'. "Nobody said 'Yes', he said. 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