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n www.durhamregion.com Going green in Clarington V ?, GOING from page 1 ing edge of diversion compared to other municipalities in the GTA, says Mr. Wolfe, who notes the four Durham municipalities have used the remaining available space at the Richmond Hill composting facility. He says before other municipalities, including the remaining remaining four in Durham, can come onstream onstream with a composting program, another another facility will need to be built. Miller Waste has proposed an indoor compost facility on its property on Squires Beach Road in Pickering that would specialize in food-scrap composting. composting. The environmental assessments assessments and required permits are in place but first, he says, it will take a commitment commitment from all the remaining Durham municipalities to make that type of investment investment worthwhile for the company. Pickering Councillor Maurice Brenner Brenner says there are no alternative compost compost facilities available in the GTA. He appreciates the conundrum this places his municipality in. Before Pickering can move forward with full city composting, composting, it must convince the three other southern municipalities not currently currently on the program to do the same. The idea, says Conn. Brenner, is to allow thé four municipalities to retain control of their collection systems, while co-ordinating in a way to ensure the Region can effectively dispose of the garbage with the least amount heading to landfill. The four communities still have some hurdles to overcome before they give the green light to curbside compost compost collection, however. Oshawa and Whitby provide their own collection pick-up. To begin a curbside compost program, those communities will need to invest in retrofitting their current trucks to collect the two streams of waste or they will need to make fleet replacements. Ajax and Pickering currently have contracts with private collectors and will have to renegotiate those contracts in order to begin large scale compost- 1 ing. Pickering currently has a pilot cart J .' project in one community where com- '■ posting and extended recycling arc of- • fered. | Programs ; praised PROGRAMS from page 1 >,j. through education and positive regulations. regulations. According to statistics, half of all •, homes in Clarington have a pet. Ms. White says progressive licens- ing and an "aggressive" adoption pro- ■, gram has resulted in an increase in the . claim rate for dogs, and therefore a decline decline in the number that have to be euthanized. euthanized. "However, Clarington truly excejs in its cat program. Calgary has an exceptional exceptional claim rate for cats - the best in the country - but Clarington has exceptionally exceptionally high adoption and low euthanasia à rates. Clarington's record on cats is vir- i- tually unchallenged by any other mu- nicipality in Canada," said Ms. White. ,-i She said Clarington's adoption rates : for cats have "soared" from 30 per cent ' to 70 per cent between 1991 and 2002. Mayor John Mutton and members of council expressed thanks and praise for the dedicated employees who help run the animal shelter. The mayor added policy dictates animal animal shelter workers only do overtime work on weekends for injured animals, , but a request from workers last week to , ( be on call for animals that were left out in the cold was met with an absolute, „ "yes." For 12 years, Clarington council has continued its ban on selling lost and homeless pels from the shelter to research. research. Search warrant required to carry out Air 1 surveillance THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, JANUARY 29,2003 PAGE 7 SEARCH from page 1 without prior judicial authorization, authorization, to use infrared aerial cameras cameras to measure heat coming from activities inside the private homes as a way of trying to figure figure out what is going on inside." The homeowner's right to privacy extends to the amount of heat coming from the residence, the justice said. In Durham, where the police helicopter, Air 1, has been a permanent permanent fixture in the sky since 1999, police expressed frustration frustration over the ruling. The decision creates one more legal obstacle in what arc: already lengthy and time-consuming time-consuming drug investigations into residential marijuana grow labs. "Certainly it's frustrating. Every time our hands are tied, it's frustrating. We need a search warrant for everything we do," Durham Regional Police Deputy Chief Rod Piukkala complained. "Drug investigations are incredibly incredibly labour-intensive because because of the amount of information information needed to get a search warrant. warrant. This is one more restrictive step. Up until now, (FLIR) may have given us some information on grow houses," he said. "We're always concerned when a tool in our toolbox has been removed." Durham police have shut down 125 residential pot labs in the past year resulting in hundreds hundreds of charges. Many cases are still before the courts. In the past, FLIR has been used to detect unusual amounts of heat emanating from a suspected suspected drug home. High levels of heat are typically associated with indoor marijuana operations, operations, .which use high-intensity lights. Evidence of excessive heat, in turn, would then form part of the grounds submitted by police when applying for a search warrant warrant on the residence. The court overturned the conviction conviction of a Windsor-area man for possession of marijuana and firearms, ruling the search warrant warrant was based, in part, on information information obtained during an RCMP infrared aerial survey in 1999. The defence said the use of the FLIR camera amounted to an "unlawful search" and the defendant's defendant's right to privacy under the Charter of Rights was breached; the court agreed. "The nature of the intrusiveness intrusiveness is subtle but almost Orwellian Orwellian in its theoretical capacity," capacity," said Justice Abella,' adding the technology allows police to draw suspicions on private activities activities inside a home based on heat patterns. "Some perfectly innocent internal internal activities," such as bathing, can create excessive amount of heat detected by FLIR, the justice noted. Alex Sosna, a federal drug prosecutor in • Durham Region, said yesterday the ruling could impact marijuana-growing cases currently before the courts. "Absolutely it may affect them. Many of the cases in which that technology was used will have to be carefully reassessed reassessed in light of the decision. Each will be reviewed on its own merit," said Mr. Sosna. He is currently prosecuting about 75 cases of marijuana- grow labs in the region, "a large number" in which police infrared infrared equipment played a role. Deputy Chief Piukkala said it hasn't been common police practice to randomly fly over homes in the region, checking for suspicious heat levels. "I can't say never, but it would be impractical," he said. Rather, Air l's sophisticated technology has generally been used during specific investigations, investigations, checking on suspect homes that were already targeted. targeted. 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