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[Sparky]

Former city of Victoria councillor Philippe Lucas is super pissed about an online "open house" hosted by the CRD about the 10 Tonnes a day bio-solid land filling.

 

[...] Every time the CRD staff stage this kind of counter-productive, undemocratic exercise, they highlight that the CRD is unworthy of its moral, legal and regulatory obligations to safeguard our environment, and to listen to and reflect the concerns of local residents. [,,,]

 

This article is worth a read if you are concerned about the turd you left yesterday.

 

https://creativelyun...s-anything-but/

[Victoria Watcher]

Ya, crazy:

 

 

 

Since the hosts opted to hide the number of participants, and since cameras, mikes and even the “chat” sidebar were disabled for participants, it was impossible to know if any CRD Board members attended, so please allow me to provide a quick recap highlighting a few ongoing serious concerns with this process:

1. To start, what kind of “open house”, online or otherwise, starts by virtually gagging and masking attendees, and then spending two hours talking at them!! 

   Many CRD Board members and residents expressed significant concern with the official consultation plan initially presented by CRD consultants and staff, which ignored calls for the CRD to actually host a public event. However, I’m certain no one could have expected that the CRD would actually disable cameras, microphones, and even the “chat” capabilities on the Zoom, only to use this meeting clearly highlight once again – and in complete contradiction of Board direction and the CRD’s official policy – CRD staffs clear bias for land application options.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have 10 tons of crap accumulating every day and we never ever had a back-up plan if the concrete kiln could or would not take it.

 

Hong Kong (7.5 million people) has 1,200 tons per day, they burn it and get it down 90%, then place the ash in a landfill.

 

https://medium.com/o...ty-1da832c72c6d

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 01 April 2024 - 05:22 AM.

[Sparky]

Wow! The Saanich Peninsula Chamber of Commerce seems rather pissed as well about the 10 Tonnes a day of bio-solid land filling.

 

[...] Peninsula businesses are worried about the health of their staff, residents, and businesses. and are asking the CRD to immediately stop the harmful land application of biosolids and follow through with their promised biosolids disposal plans. [...]

 

There is a video on this page that is very well produced. Again worth a watch if you care about what you left behind.

[Victoria Watcher]

I'm not quite sure landfilling it is the same as "land application", which is usually the term used when it's spread in forests etc.

[Sparky]

Ya I agree. Land "filling" seems to refer to one spot..... and land application is where you skip through the trees with a bag of regurgitated turds and fling it out of your bag with a little spoon.

[Sparky]

Here is an old story about how the CRD have been screwing up the turd recycle plan for decades.

 

http://www.ruralsaan...nt-history.html

[max.bravo]

Just give everyone a burn barrel…

[dasmo]

Found a good use for the Mars Bomber!

[Victoria Watcher]

Under pressure from the province, the CRD needs to come up with a definitive plan to deal with the mounting quantity of dried biosolids pellets at Hartland. Biosolids are the byproduct of the region’s wastewater treatment processes. As of now, the CRD says the region’s biosolids are being landfilled “under emergency measures.”

 

Its website indicates that a biosolid management pilot project could begin in the initial months of 2026, pending provincial approval and public support. For the sake of transparency, the CRD engaged in virtual public consultation on Feb. 20 and an online survey up to March 6 on the subject.

 

Delaware-based Synagro Technologies is the largest recycler of organic byproducts in North America. It is also the majority equity holder in the residual treatment facility at Hartland Resource Management Group (HRMG), a group that also includes Bird Construction and Maple Reinders. The price tag for Synagro to build its residual treatment facility at Hartland was $12.6M. The contract it negotiated to produce Class A biosolids for the CRD is for 20 years.

 

 

https://www.capitald...-pellet-problem

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 April 2024 - 05:07 AM.

[Nparker]

$1 billion just to have our collective **** buried in a landfill. 🙄

Edited by Nparker, 24 April 2024 - 05:34 AM.

[aastra]

Seriously though, who could have predicted this absurd situation?

 

 

Times-Colonist
November 15, 1992

Voters could be bogged down with a very mucky problem

Are voters just buying a whole new problem if they decide on sewage treatment? It creates loads of muck...

[Matt R.]

$1 billion just to have our collective **** buried in a landfill.

It’s quite fantastic when you think about it, that we live in such a time of abundance that we can all just look at a billion dollars and go, “meh”.

[Nparker]

To be fair, a billion dollars is barely what Canadians are paying each week to cover the interest on the federal debt. That's "only" $1300 for each and everyone of us yearly. 

[Matt R.]

See? It’s just a matter of perspective.