Amongst other things (see full Spec story here) Executive Director Jim Hudson from the Bay Area Restoration Council, points out that the Mayor's idea would triple the cost, cause toxic waste to be further disturbed, and would see that this waste is carted around neighborhoods to rid it - only to reach another destination . The article also points out that Bratina's preference is not in keeping with scientific views on how best to handle the matter.
While the mayor's message appears, on the surface to have a common sense resonance (ie: let's get it right out of there), do you believe this is a time when his view was too simplistic and may have been better off unsaid, or perhaps explored further prior to stepping in the sludge?
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Mayor Bob has no scientific background, he should accept the consensus solution of all the stakeholders. Capping of the Randle Reef Toxic hotspot is the only feasible solution due to cost and not disturbing the sediment.
ReplyDeleteCapping, $100,000, removal $300,000, difference $200,000, which should be paid by the company that dumped it there in the first place, so that it can be removed permanently. Either way, Hamilton is broke and Burlington wants nothing to do with it. Epic-fail for the environment. Hamilton, the city where nothing changes, except property tax increases.
ReplyDeleteI fear another study coming...Just cap it & be done with it! IMHO
ReplyDeleteCapping $100,000,000 ; Removal $300,000,000; USS only supplying steel for containment box.
ReplyDeleteIf we cap it we create more land.
ReplyDeleteWho on earth let anyone dump such contanimants in our bay in the fist place. Back in the day the early settlers called the Bay, "beautiful Lake Geniva"? So who committed and this Crimnal Act and which of our so-called Political Leaders were turning their back and taking contributions to their campaigns while Stelco, Dofasco, Canada Iron, International Harvester and all those others were polluting our environment. They should at least be forced to turn the land they backfilled into the bay over to the City and pay the lion's share of the clean-up, not cover-up.
Mayor Bratina is 100%correct. The only way to clean up such a mess would be to actually "CLEAN it up". All the rest is a cover up for a future land grab of backfilled Harbour. What else is new? More land, less Bay, same old clean-up. Heaven help us!
Note: See link for pictures of the Bay as it used to be.