The Truro Daily News reports, “The Council of Canadians and the Ecology Action Centre are included among approximately 30 individual appeals lodged with the County of Colchester over its decision to permit the discharge of frack wastewater into the municipal sewer system.”
The article continues, “The county recently granted approval for Atlantic Industrial Services (AIS) to release 4.5 million litres of the frack wastewater it is storing in holding ponds at its Debert site into the sewer system. The approval is dated for May 26 to allow for a public appeal period and no waste can be discharged pending the outcome of that process. …AIS plans to treat and discharge the fracking wastewater into the municipal sewer system and ultimately released into the Chiganois River, with potential impacts to the communities along the Cobequid Bay and the Bay of Fundy.”
“Atlantic regional organizer Angela Giles and water campaigner Emma Lui, who sent in the appeal on behalf of the Council said they have ‘grave concerns’ about the lack of baseline testing for other chemicals found in the fracking process including diesel, naphthalene, formaldehyde, sulfuric acid, thiourea and benzyl chloride, some of which are carcinogens, hazardous air pollutants and on Environment Canada’s Toxic Substances List.”
“County Council has named five of its members to sit on an appeals committee, which is in the process of getting started on the effort.”
For more, please read:
NEWS: Colchester County, NS could accept fracking-polluted wastewater
NEWS: April 10 deadline for comments on fracking wastewater plan in Colchester County, Nova Scotia
Council of Canadians and Ecology Action Centre among those appealing decision to discharge frack waste
Opposition growing against Colchester County’s approval of fracking wastewater disposal
