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the HERALD Wednesday November 1991 Environment Environmental Assessment Act is flawed By BARBARA Herald Special The provincial Environmental Assessment Act has been described as a dogs breakfast While everyone would admit that it is better than no legislation at all it has many major flaws Un fortunately Hills seems to be stuck with this legislation in fighting the proposal by Reclamation Systems Inc RSI to bring garbage from all of On tario to the Acton Quarry bet ween Georgetown and Acton The legislation was written with municipalities in mind In fact the Acton Quarry landfill proposal is the first private land fill proposal to go under the Act Because the legislation assumes that the proponent of any under taking will be a municipality Region and the Town of Halton Hills are not considered official commenting agencies This leads to a very strange situa tion where the municipalities that will be the most im pacted do not get their com ments included in the govern ment review the Blue Book A municipality would not em bark on a project unless there was an established need for a road or for a landfill Therefore the idea of an investment pro posal going to an Environmental Assessment was not considered There has been no proven need to establish a landfill in Halton Hills While the Ministry acknowledges that there may be a need for additional landfill space in the province there is no necessity that RSI be the ones to provide that space RSI is not a municipality with a mandated responsibility to dispose of waste The Act requires that a reasonable range of alternatives be considered The planning must consider alternatives to the undertaking which fulfill the purpose of the undertaking in functionally different ways and alternative methods of im plementing a particular type of undertaking This would include examining alternative sites Halton Region started with sites in their landfill search In fact the Acton Quarry was on list but was POWER special guest Lois of Love Canal Fame supports the citizens of Hills in their fight against the Acton Quarry Dump Proposal and to wam the government of the danger of allowing Private Sector Mega Dumps Lois will be at the annual general meeting scheduled for Georgetown High School pm Wed Dec THE CORPORATION OF THE Town of Halton Hills 1 Halton Hilts Drivo PO Box 128 HILLS Georgetown Ontario 5G2 PUBLIC INFORMATION CENTRE PROPOSED RECONSTRUCTION OF TODD RD TO CNR SPUR LINE The Town of Halton Hills invites you to attend a Public Infor mation Centreto view the preliminary Design Proposal for the reconstruction of the abovenamed section of road The Public Information Centre will be held as follows DATE Wednesday December 1991 TIME pm to pm and to 800 pm PLACE Town of Kills Civic Centre Committee Room 1 Hills Drive Georgetown This Public Information Centre will be on informal meeting where plans showing the preliminary design will be avail able for viewing by area residents and other interested parties Town of Halton Hills staff will be available to discuss the project The public are encouraged to attend the centre to review the design and provide comments The project is being carried out in accordance with the Class Environmental Assessment Process for Municipal Road Projects Inquiries on the project may be addressed to Mr R A Goddard Town of Hills 1 Halton Hills Drive Halton Hills Ontario L7G 5G2 Telephone 8732600 extension 310 eliminated early on because of the risk to our drinking water RSI did the process in reverse They preselected the Acton Quarry and then in a vain at tempt to meet the requirements of the EA Act they came up with five other quarries but never did U of T offers moneysaver University of Toronto resear chers have found a way to liquefy and ferment paper garbage to create an environmen tally sound automobile fuel Converting the paper in solid waste into fuel will relieve pressure on the search for waste disposal sites and save municipalities money by more than doubling the lifo- of present Bites says Professor Morris Wayman of the chemical engineering and applied chemistry department In addi tion using ethanol reduces the air pollution smog and greenhouse effects attributed to petroleumbased motor fuels The greater Toronto area alone produces about four million ton nes lone tonne equals 1000 kilograms of garbage per year and this garbage contains enough paper to produce million litres of explains In our laboratory we produce ethanol at the rate of litres per tonne Greater Toronto area garbage can be fermented to with a current wholesale value of 240 million he savs To facilitate the conversion of garbage into ethanol metals glass concrete and compostable first be removed from the garbage leaving only the paper Enzymes and yeast are then add ed to liquefy the paper into a solu tion of fermentable sugars and allow fermentation to occur Once distilled the result is the fuel ethanol hopes his laboratory results will be realized industrial ly in the near future Currently his research team is focusing on improving the pro cess and developing economical means to produce the necessary enzymes The project is supported by the Ontario Ministry of the Environ ment and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Coun cil ECOLINE Dv Comarin Carina tot Ox Air iTOZONE GOOD AND BAD chemical la both good and bad for us depending on where Jt ta In the atmosphere atmosphere Mocks ultraviolet light and protects us from car 2 Surface ozone a major component of urban smog harms plants and lungs Burning fossil fuels constantly creates new surface ozone but because ozone Is chemically unstable It cant move to upper atmosphere where if needed Sourer Sires Royal Socwty of Canute Say I saw it in The Herald detailed studies on any of them The excuse offered by RSI is that not having the ability to ex propriate their decisions must be based upon the ability to access property The Niagara Escarpment Com mission is reported as saying The requirements of the EA Act in the view of the Commis sion should be applied equally to private and public proponents To do otherwise would be discriminatory and would pro vide private proponents with an advantage at the expense of the public interest It has been generally recogniz ed that the EA Act had many pro blems Region certainly found the legislation very cumbersome Because of its many problems the Ministry of the Environment embarked on their Environmental Assessment Program Improvement Project Because the legislation was so inadequate at a meeting with in October Sheldon requested that the place a moratorium on all private sector proposals until the new legislation was ready followed this up with a formal requesl hut we were told that it was not possible to put these proposals on hold attended a workshop on the EAPIP in February of 1989 submitted a brief to the En vironmental Assessment Board in April of While we have no date for the proposed changes in the legislation we will all be anx ious to see what changes have been made We hope that it has been worth the wait s Annual General Meeting has been moved to Wednesday December pm at the Georgetown District High School Lois Gibbs who fought the Love Canal Battle will be the speaker This is also the evening when the draw for Bateman art will take place Are you feeling lucky Everyone welcome THE CORPORATION OF THE Town of Halton Hills Hills Drive Box HALTON HILLS Georgetown On tar 17 G 8732600 PUBLIC INFORMATION CENTRE PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THE 5 SIDE ROAD CULVERT AND RELATED APPROACH WORK 5 SIDE ROAD C0NC 9 The Town of Halton Hills invites you to attend a Public Information Centre to view the preliminary design proposal for the extension of the abovenamed culvert The Public Information Centre will be held as follows Date Wednesday December Time 300 pm to pm and 700 to pm Town of Hills Civic Centre Place Committee Room 1 Halton Hills Drive Georgetown This Public Information Centre will be an informal meeting where plans showing the preliminary design will be avail able for viewing by area residents and other interested parties Town of Halton Hills staff will be available to discuss the project The public are encouraged to attend the centre to review the design and provide comments The project is being carried out in accordance with the Class Environmental Assessment Process for Municipal Road Projects Inquiries on the project may be addressed to Mr ft A- Town of Hills 1 Halton Hills Drive Halton Hills Ontario Telephone 8732600 extension 310 Ha