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Poverty to Prosperity
Budget Presentation
Gordon House March 19, 2015
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Mr. Speaker, to facilitate
interest in the Riverton
City Dump, a legislative
framework should be
developed to mandate
separation of waste
generated
from,
commercial, public and
industrial
sources,
followed by the phasing-in of residential waste separation.
Mr. Speaker, my greatest fear is that the spoke that has been hanging over Kingston for the
past week could contain cancer causing particles resulting from the burning of electronic
gadgets and batteries, along with numerous other potentially dangerous but unregulated
chemical waste which is disposed of at the dump.
Mr. Speaker, Riverton City and the Riverton Dump has its own special eco-dynamic
personality, and I am aware that persons who earn their living from the Dump would be
fearful of privatization, especially if privatization means greater domain control and
restricted access to the property. We have a duty to let the people in Riverton City know,
that privatization will not deprive them of an income. What it means in that an industry in