Landfill opponents get ministers’ promise FROM PAGE A1 leaving for Europe. Immediately prior to his departure. Bell, who was previously an advocate of the controversial Premier landfill being phased down rather than phased out and says the degree to which this happens largely depends on what decisions are made by the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) over landfilling, which is a All - Sunday, May 2, 1982 - North Shore News He also confirmed that any application by the District to expand the landfill, which only has a remaining lifespan of four to five years, would receive a full public hearing. Such a hearing, he Street landfill, told the News problem common _ promised, would be man- in an interview he had hada throughout the Lower datory under the new Waste change of heart and had Mainland. Management Act to be come to the conclusion that Bell was planning to at- submitted to the legislature landfilling could no longer tend a GVRD seminar on later this year. be justified because of its landfilling being held The presence of the adverse environmental and yesterday, at which he landfill has been the social impacts. hoped to get some indication justification given by many He declared that he saw as to which direction the owners of neighboring the most likely solution, depending on cost, being incineration coupled with recycling, with limited landfilling for materials that could not'be disposed by either method. Landfill opponents ex- pressed surprise at his sudden turnaround = and skeptics predicted he might do some hasty back pedalling after the trip. Bell says his feeling that landfilling is, to some extent, inevit#ble has. been strengthened by whathe saw Environment Minister Ralph Long represented in Europe, where he learned Stephen Rogers that ac- 21 homeowners on the west of ‘serious concerns over tivities at the North Van site side of Lynn Creek. incinerator emissions. are being watched closely. Assessment reductions This is likely to reinforce the suspicions of skeptics who say that his change of heart was largely justification for a trip to Europe at taxpayers’ ex- pense. Bell is quite firm that the. trip was fully justified. “There's no question in my mind,” he stated. “I think the council members and staff court. members benefitted greatly were joined by other landfill from it - from the conference opponents from Langley and Assessments reform in Berlin and the tours of the Pitt Polder when they ex- campaigner Betty Griffin facilities which gave us first- hand experience of the way they operate.” He is now talking of the regional district might be leaning towards. He thinks it likely that he and the other District of- ficials who went to Europe will be reporting on their findings and suggesting which direction District should take in dealing with its garbage, at the May 10 council meeting. Meanwhile, some of the local people opposed to the continuation of the Premier Street landfill have received a personal assurance from Rogers told members of the Citizens Opposed to Landfill Dumping (COLD) in his Victoria office recently that he was aware of serious environmental problems caused to both water and air by the Premier Street landfill and that it is being closely monitored by the Waste Management Branch. Nine members of COLD pressed their concerns at a meeting with Rogers and Municipal Affairs Minister Bill Vander Zalm. members. homes as their reason for seeking lower property value assessments by the court of revision. COLD members com- pared assessed values for taxation purposes and found that whereas the landfill has the effect of lowering the saleable price of their homes this was not reflected in their assessments. 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