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Petition
Presented April 28, 2009
Construction of Bioremediation Facility in Barachois
Brook
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MR. SPEAKER: The
hon. the Member for the District of Port de Grave.
MR. BUTLER: Mr.
Speaker, I believe my hon. colleague must be out for my
record, he is good until 2012.
I present a petition
today on behalf of the residents of the Barachois Brook
area. I want to read the prayer of the petition because
I think this is the first time, or there may have been
one other time:
WHEREAS
the Department of Environment and Conservation issued a
certificate of approval to construct a bioremediation
facility for petroleum contaminated soil in the
community of Barachois Brook without any consultation
with their local district council; and
WHEREAS
the municipal permit for this facility was only approved
in principle by the Town Council of Stephenville
Crossing due to the fact the company Universal
Environmental Services Inc. failed to provide the
Stephenville Crossing Town Council with all necessary
information to officiate this permit; and
WHEREAS
the residents of Barachois Brook are extremely concerned
about the long-term health and environmental impacts of
this facility in their community;
WHEREUPON
the undersigned, your petitioners, humbly pray and call
upon the House of Assembly to encourage government to
revoke the certificate of approval for the Universal
Environmental Services facility in Barachois Brook.
Mr. Speaker, this
petition references where Transport Canada proposed to
remediate I think it was approximately 10,000 tonnes of
contaminated soil from the Stephenville Airport. It
remains unclear to those residents, to this very day,
why no environmental assessment was performed. They were
able to set up in Barachois Brook without even, really,
any public consultation.
What the residents are
saying is that the town should have consulted with the
local service district to advise them of what was
happening there. The residents of Barachois Brook are
extremely concerned about the long-term health and
environmental impacts it has on the residents of their
community.
Mr. Speaker, the
petitions are no only signed by the people who actually
live in Barachois Brook, but they are from Stephenville,
Stephenville Crossing and so on. I am sure we have heard
through the media from time to time about the concerns
they had when the contaminated soils were being
transported, how the dust from the trucks was blowing
throughout their communities and they had major concerns
not only where the site is but as the contaminated soil
travelled through the various communities en route
there.
Mr. Speaker, I present this petition on behalf of those
residents and ask government to consider revoking the
certificate of approval with regard to the facility at
Barachois Brook.
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