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Clarington Council Meeting July 13

Submitted by Site Administrator on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 17:14
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In a surprising turn of events, Clarington Council passed a zero-waste motion at its meeting on July 13. The motion by Mayor Abernethy had been originally introduced in January and had been tabled.

A number of deputations addressed this and generally expressed puzzlement that after agreeing to the incinerator host agreement. that they would now adopt zero-waste which is incompatible with the incinerator.

Doug Anderson, one of the deputants, presented number from last June's Deloitte business case which showed that increasing diversion would reduce the amout of garbage available below the 100,000 tonnes per year required by agreement to keep the incinerator going.

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Carbon footprint

Submitted by Ron Dancey on Wed, 09/09/2009 - 08:25.

I think all government bodies, including municipal, should publish annually the amount of our resources they use & publish a plan to reduce the use over the following year. Resources would include electricity, water, vehicle gas, natural gas, oil, etc.