By Sean McIntyre
Gulf Islands Driftwood-
April 23, 2008
Smell descended “like a bomb”
A Salt Spring Island resident is searching for answers after a strange odour she believes came from the Crofton Mill left her and three people working outside her home with headaches, nausea and itchy eyes last week.
“I am angry and scared and in need of answers,” Anne Miller wrote in a letter to B.C. Environment Minister Barry Penner immediately following the incident. “I have long known the potential dangers of the air from the mill, but had also thought that this was being rectified and, as we tend to do, I put that aside believing that our government would not allow us to be harmed if the dangers were known.”
Though Miller has smelled the sulphur-like odour coming from the Catalyst pulp and paper mill before, she’s never encountered symptoms like those experienced just after 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 15. |
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January 24, 2008
Posted By Matthew Van Dongen, St. Catharines Standard
About 36,000 tonnes of paper-waste sludge piled in Fenwick are about to disappear.
It’s quite the magic trick.
And neighbours of the “sludge mountain” at 325 Church St. found out Thursday night they’re the magicians.
“We move mountains,” a jubilant Carolyn Botari said soon after being told the Thorold paper recycler who piled the sludge in a berm near her home two years ago will take it back, starting as early as Monday.
“We had two goals, right from the start,” added grinning neighbour Lynda Kis.
“One was to stop these berms from being built anywhere in Ontario. The other was to get rid of this one.”
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Sludge spreading unlikely
By Peter Rusland
Duncan News Leader Pictorial
Oct 17 2007
Industrial and municipal sludge — from fly ash to sewage — won’t be spread on Valley forest and farmlands despite new provincial legislation allowing the practice, local brass say.
But members of the Crofton Airshed Citizens’ Coalition watchdog group fear B.C.’s Soil Amendment Code of Practice, effective Sept. 1, is flawed regarding monitoring and enforcement.
“The deliberate application of these captured toxins to animal grazing and food producing lands, as well as to watershed lands, is unacceptable,” the group tells environment minister Barry Penner, calling for safe alternatives to sludge disposal.
See BC Groups Protest Sludge Landspreading
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Organic farmer Lana Popham is one of many expressing concern over what is going into soil.
By Amy Dove
News staff
Aug 31 2007
Moving industrial waste byproducts from the landfill to farmland is a backwards move in terms of food protection, say local organic farmers.
“It is a creative way to get rid of industrial waste,” said Lana Popham, an organic farmer in Saanich for 10 years.
“I don’t understand why they would put it on agricultural land. Nobody knows what this will do to our food.”
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By Mike D’Amour
News Leader Pictorial
Aug 29 2007
More than 20 Crofton mill managers received pink slips in a restructuring move the company promises will be the last.
An emotional Don McKendrick, vice-president of Catalyst’s Crofton division, said telling the workers they no longer had jobs was one of the worst things he’s had to do.
“This has been one of the hardest days in my career,” he told the News Leader Pictorial Monday.
“It’s not a good day … I had to say goodbye to some friends today.”
McKendrick wouldn’t say how many people had been let go, but put the number at more than 20, but less than 30.
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Watchdog group says berms causing problems throughout Ontario
By Lishanti Caldera
Epoch Times Toronto Staff
Aug 09, 2007
When a 36,000 tonne mound of recycled paper sludge was deposited at Fenwick farm in Ontario a year ago, concerned neighbours were assured it was safe.
But the paper sludge berm produces an odour when wet that has been described as resembling vomit or sewage, and leaches chemicals into a nearby municipal drain during heavy rain. It also does nothing at all for the view.
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Column by Carolyn Heiman, Times Colonist
Published: Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Sewage plants are making the news this year.
While the Capital Regional District is working on building its first plant, the Comox Strathcona Regional District is taking the matter very literally. It's growing plants in a soil amendment made from its sewage, or more specifically biosolids from its wastewater treatment.
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