Out of side out of mind when it comes to the garbage spewing from the mayor, his minions and the environuts. There are such discrepancies between the goals in miller's green plan and the purchase of a landfill site.
City's landfill deal is dirty
By SUE-ANN LEVY
On Monday of this week, Mayor David Miller eagerly unveiled his "clean air" plan which calls for a 6% reduction in greenhouse gases in the Toronto area by 2012.
The two major pollutants that contribute to greenhouse gases, according to Robert Kennedy Jr., er Miller's own report? They're carbon dioxide and methane, both of which are generated by decaying waste in landfill sites.
But yesterday that didn't appear to make a shred of difference to the mayor and his team, who were positively tripping over themselves to clear the final hurdle before the $220.3-million-plus Green Lane landfill purchase closes today -- that is, approve a legal settlement with the Oneida Indian band living a few kilometres away from the dump.
In fact, I suspect the Millerites haven't seen a report from last July on Green Lane's own web site that declares the landfill produces up to 550,000 tonnes of methane gas per year.
But then the smog saviours who approved the deal 36-5 were many of the same councillors who vociferously fought against sending Toronto's garbage to the Adams Mine landfill site seven years ago -- Miller himself, Sandra Bussin, Raymond Cho, Pam McConnell, Joe Mihevc, Howard Moscoe, Joe Pantalone, Kyle Rae and Michael Walker.
Garbage, garbage......
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