The move move to zero waste will be challenged at a hearing with the Ontario Municipal Board.
WOODSTOCK - Walker Environmental Group is challenging Oxford County's official plan.
They are challenging the move to zero waste at the Ontario Municipal Board. A 10 day OMB hearing will get started at 10:30 a.m on Thursday and the meetings will be open to the public. President of the Oxford People Against Landfills Bryan Smith says he doesn't think Walker's argument carries much weight.
"To my mind this is Walker grasping at straws because they know the legislation that is already in place under the Waste Free Ontario act and all the regulations being rolled out are going to reduce the quantity of waste in the province dramatically. So in fact the kind of business they want to do with the Beachville Dump that they are proposing is the kind of business that is supposed to disappear fairly quickly. So this is sort of the last gasp of an old model. I've been known to say this is a 4000 year old way of dealing with garbage, their are records in the bible of garbage dumps around Jerusalem."
OPAL will be presenting during one of the days at the hearing. Smith says he wants to see the public at these meetings.
"It is a public hearing so the public is invited to attend these sessions starting on Thursday, returning again Friday and then the following week. I am told on a fairly good authority that when the public shows up and has a respectful but determined presence in front of the hearing that the adjudicator, takes note of that, so it is important that our community members come out for some portion of the hearings and listen to what's happening and make sure their presence expresses their will to have zero garbage."
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