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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1998. PAGE 7.
Cty. opens landfill talks
Huron County council voted,
Thursday, to open negotiations
with Morris Twp. and the Town of
Exeter, but not before several coun-
cillors loudly expressed their reser-
vations against moving ahead with
the process at this time.
In the end, councillors followed
the advice of consulting engineer
Steve Janes of CG&S Janes Asso-
ciates who urged them to move
ahead with technical work on the
two sites as part of the county's
Waste Management Masterplan.
Janes said the proposal for the Mor-
ris and Exeter sites to become the
designated landfillis for the north
and south of the county as other
municipal sites were closed is the
best solution the county has going
for it. The negotiations need not be
for ownership of the sites at this
time, Janes said, but to allow the
research to go ahead to get
approval for the sites to take
garbage from neighbouring munici-
palities.
The Ministry of Environment
(MOE) had just issued new regula-
tions which would make it much
harder to open new landfills or
expand existing ones, he said.
MOE policy seems to be pushing
centralized, larger sites.
Ron Murray, reeve of McKillop
Twp. wondered if this wouldn't
indicate using a large commercial
landfill site such as the Greenlane
facility in Elgin County. Janes
warned that prices of using com-
mercial landfills are likely to
increase. An American-owned
company has been buying up the
major landfills in Ontario and is in
a near-monopoly situation, he said.
The price small municipalities will
have to compete with is likely to
rise. "If you depend on export (of
garbage) you have no control over
availability or price," he warned.
Brian McBurney, reeve of Turn-
berry Twp. which has been export-
ing its waste to Greenlane, said
there were more alternatives than
Janes said. At the last council meet-
ing two other companies had
sought the township's garbage, he
said.
But Janes worried the MOE has
laid charges against Greenlane that
could threaten its future.
Several councillors objected
about what they considered undue
haste in the process. "I feel we're
being stampeded into a solution
Continued on page 17
78th Annual
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