Sludge Watch ==> ALERT: British Columbia - Protest the Sludge 'Code of Practice"

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

What goes on the soil today is in the water and the food tomorrow.


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TOXIC SLUDGE IS GOOD FOR YOU!!

BC Environment Minister, Barry Penner, has recently signed the Soil 
Amendment Code of Practice, effective September 1, 2007. The code faciliates 
landspreading of industrial toxic waste, including pulp mill sludge, fly ash 
and domestic and industrial sewage and water treatment sludge.

Visit http://www.croftonair.org/content/view/131/1/ to find out more and 
send your opinion to the BC Minister of Environment.

PCBs, dioxins, phenolics, heavy metals, benzenes and impossible to predict 
bacterial and other chemical toxins are included in this new definition of 
'soil amendment' for BC farms and forests. Landspreading is set to start on 
food-producing, livestock and wildlife supporting fields, and forests 
including watershed lands. There is no recourse available to communities as 
truckloads of toxic waste are dumped in their communities. The code 
completely lacks a compliance and enforcment regime and only minimal and 
completely insufficient testing and monitoring.

Join the voices letting the Minister of Environment know that it is NOT 
acceptable to the citizens and communities of BC to spread persitent 
pollutants across the province.

Please visit http://www.croftonair.org/content/view/131/1/ and send your 
letter.