Building a housing development beside an industrial plant is just as bad as building an industrial plant beside a housing development.
The Record reports on the criticism against the housing development in the former apple orchard on Union Street.
Susan Bryant, a friend of BFCC says:
“It is wholly inappropriate to put new residential development in harm’s way in the immediate neighbourhood of the plant.”
So why do Bio-En and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment think that it’s appropriate to put an industrial plant in the immediate neighbourhood of a residential development?
Hawk Ridge Homes has asked a provincial tribunal to order the approval of 44 homes
— eliminating the inconvenience of research, study, analysis and the due diligence that Woolwich planners are trying to perform.
We’ve been given all assurances that the biogas plant is safe, but if you were to ask the Chemtura people they’d tell you that their industrial plant is safe too. Or at least that “the plant would operate in accordance with necessary legislation, licensing and regulations.” Yet Chemtura has regular incidents of chemical spills, fires, and now “product emissions”.
Been there, done that. Different industrial plant, same problems.
–Bob.
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big industrial plan should not be located in a resedential area because it can be afected to your health
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Scarborough Mirror article dated Nov, 11, 2010 has Jack Horner of Chemtura Chemical plant acknowledged that it “took quite a while before the siren got activated” and that it was “something like” 15 minutes! Our community knows when the siren sounded and we will tell the truth Chemtura! The truth is it took approx. 55 minutes for the CAER alarm to be activated after a sulphuric acid release on Scarborough communities on Nov 3, 2010. Community members were out gardening, raking leaves and walking their dogs in a heavy sulphuric acid mist! Children were being released from kindergarten classes and for lunch hour from local schools! There was no siren then!
Employees with “popcorn lung”, ordered toxic environmental clean ups and continued chemical releases such as the recent one in Elmira, Ontario are unacceptable Chemtura! When will the Ministry of Environment and our world Governments shut you down? Why are big corporation polluters allowed bankruptcy bail outs? Say no to toxins in our community and say no to building homes and communities around chemical companies!
Just to be clear, the chemical spill Kimberley is referring to occurred in a Chemtura plant located in Scarborough, Ontario, not the plant located in Elmira, Ontario.
While the Scarborough Mirror is not online, other stories have been indexed by Google News.
Click on “other stories have been indexed by Google News” and then click on “siren speed question in aftermath of chemical spill“. There you can read about Chemtura’s response to the recent Nov 3, 2010 Scarborough Chemical spill. Scarborough Mirror is online at insidetoronto.com.
After researching and reading about Chemtura and Superfunds in the United States, you get this overwhelming feeling of doom. Stay strong Elmira! For the future of our children, stay strong!
In an article in the Scarborough Mirror (Dec 3, 2010), Kate Jordan from the Ministry of Environment states that the sulphuric acid mist release upon our Scarborough community by Chemtura did not have any lasting impact on the environment or community. It is always easy to respond this way when one was not subjected to a toxic release themselves. Long term effects from exposure can include cancer. Chemical companies are not required by law to take air quality samples during their releases and spills, nor, are they required by law to immediately warn the public. This should be mandatory and the public should have the right to know the chemical concentrations they were exposed to! Immediately warning communities does not seem to be the top priority of chemical companies so residential homes should not be built near them ever!
Chemtura has now had a chemical spill of Sulphuric Acid that resulted in a mist that passed through Scarborough communities! The spill occurred Nov 3, 2010 at approx. 11:05hrs. Community members were exposed to the mist as they did not know they were to be indoors until the CAER siren sounded at 12:00hrs. That is a 55 minute delay and is irresponsible! Why is there all this community information delay? What are our communities being exposed to and why would they approve more housing in Elmira when these dangers clearly exist?