Municipality pleads waste case
Environment minister hears about CBRM
problems
By Laurel Munroe, Cape Breton Post, February 13, 1999
The region's proposed solid waste strategy still
hangs in the balance following a meeting between
Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM)
officials and the provincial environment minister.
Mayor David Muise, CBRM solid waste manager
Paul Oldford and councillors Mike White and Vince
Hall met with Michel Samson - the MLA for
Richmond - in Halifax.
"We reviewed the difficulties we're having
financially and how it's affecting our abilities to
meet guidelines," Muise said.
"We made our case for leniency; to give us more
time to get recycling in place."
The Cape Breton delegation argued garbage
burned at the regional incinerator should count
when the province calculates whether the CBRM is
adhering to regulations requiring 50 per cent
reduction in the amount of solid waste arriving at
landfills by 2000.
"We also want them to look at the fact that we're
generating electricity from our waste," the mayor
added.
The incinerator produces electrical energy which is
sold to Nova Scotia Power.
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