In two of my communities, Fort McPherson and Aklavik, they are looking at new landfill sites because their sites are filled to capacity. They can’t put anything else in there. I think that again under regulations, you talk about the whole new federal push to deal with grey water and have to train and everything else. What is the difference between having a garbage dump in the Delta, which seeps runoff and also when we have floods? All that stuff flows back into the water table. As a department, don’t you think you should take that more seriously with regard to what that effect has by way of the environment and the effect is has around a community, where we are having to go farther and farther from the community to find these landfill sites? Without gravel, especially in Aklavik, the only reasonable place to put a landfill site is probably up towards the mountains. What is his department doing to assist communities dealing with the landfill problem and also, as Mrs. Groenewegen mentioned, you are the ones enforcing the law but at the end of the day you have to allow for some options. When you want to enforce regulations or legislation, you have to ensure that you are showing there are alternatives or options that those communities can look at. What is your department doing to work with communities to assist them in dealing with the problem we have in our communities with waste?
David Krutko on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 25th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 24th, 2009
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