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So was this well-thought out?
It is well-thought out. A lot of why the CRD is acting the way they are with Foundation Organics is to demonstrate market failure. If you listened to Nils Jensen yesterday on CFAX, he is basically stating that the private sector has failed to step up to the plate. Funny thing is, private sector players are just that: players. CRD are the games master and have dictated the rules of the game. And they got that wrong, by assuming that uptake would be far less than what it is.
Or did they? Perhaps the idea was always to demonstrate market failure so that they can ride to the rescue, as they are doing here. Private sector can't do it but hey, we have the land right here at Hartland to do it. The CRD has never turned its nose up to empire building and so here they are, running roughshod over Hartland Avenue and Willis Point residents. They've essentially sold out these guys to be the saviours of Tanner Ridge/Martindale Valley residents.
But why? Accuse me of wearing a tinfoil hat if you must, but if the CRD sees the best solution is for them to process compost from municipal programs, then what's stopping them from shipping sewage sludge up the hill to Hartland, too? I mean, the facility is already built and done so under the guise of accepting municipal organic waste. Since they've built it outside of the limelight of The Great CRD Sewage Caper, they can sell it as just incremental effort to add sewage sludge to all of the mix.
One last point: what is the CRD going to do with all of the compost it creates? Use it at Hartland? Or is it going to sell it? To whom? Is it really appropriate for Hartland to get into the retail/wholesale compost game? I'm sure that Peninsula Gravel Mart, Trio, etc. will just love that.