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    EPA and NOAA identify problems with Port of Albany wind energy site – Riverkeeper - September 22, 2022 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Tree-clearing on Beacon Island, along the Hudson River and Normans Kill, is among the missteps at proposed turbine manufacturing site. Lets pursue wind energy without collateral damage to the local environment.

    As our society enters the necessary but challenging transition to clean energy to combat climate change, it is important to ensure that we do not cause collateral environmental damage along the way.

    New York State has a laudable plan to develop 9,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy by 2035. Riverkeeper supports generating clean, renewable power through wind energy. New York is working quickly to build out its supply chain to create massive wind turbines and is improving existing industrial ports to achieve this goal. The Port of Albany has proposed Beacon Island as one of these sites for the manufacture of offshore wind turbines.

    Beacon Island is an 82-acre parcel just south of the Port of Albany on the Hudson Rivers west bank. It is immediately south of a tributary called Normans Kill. The Port of Albany bought the property three years ago for the purpose of developing the property to build components for offshore wind turbines.

    A controversy arose in May, when 80 acres of wooded land on the site were suddenly clear cut under a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation permit but before required federal approvals were obtained.

    In June and July, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) called out several significant problems with this proposed project.

    It appears that potential impacts to anadromous and resident fish that use this section of the Hudson River as migratory, spawning, nursery, resting, and foraging habitat were not fully considered during project planning and design, NOAA stated in comments to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

    Both the EPA and NOAA recommend that the Army Corps permit for the project not be granted until proper assessment and modifications are made:

    The EPA and NOAA state that alternatives, including other locations, must be considered in the proposal.

    The project proposes to permanently impact .81 acres of wetland without considering alternatives to avoid and minimize environmental impacts. The proposal does not provide justification for why these locations were chosen.

    Proposed in-water construction would fragment habitat, disrupting and damaging a .21-acre bed of important underwater grasses and the many fishes that use this section of the Hudson River as migratory, spawning, nursery, resting, and foraging habitat. Similar to the wetland impacts, there is no justification provided for why construction of a wharf in this location is needed. The EPA and NOAA call for studies of alternatives, and NOAA calls for fish impacts to be properly considered.

    As stated by the EPA and NOAA, the projects plan to replace the affected habitat is inadequate, and the project cannot proceed until a proper plan is identified.

    The entire site is within the 100-year flood plain of the Hudson River, which leaves it prone to flooding, especially as climate change intensifies.

    The tree clearing went beyond the limits of the proposed permit. EPA recommends full restoration of cleared forested wetland areas that are not authorized for impact under the proposed permit, the agency wrote in its June 23 letter to the Corps.

    Riverkeeper is a member of the NY Offshore Wind Alliance, and fully supports wind energy development and other alternatives to fossil fuels. Riverkeeper also supports the recommendations by EPA and NOAA concerning local environmental impacts of the proposed project. We call upon the New York DEC and the Town of Bethlehem Planning Board to follow the federal agencies in examining these issues closely, and consider alternative sites and designs to minimize impacts.

    In addition, community members have raised concerns about the environmental impacts from the disturbance of 2 million tons of coal ash on the site, and the projects infringement of the Town of Bethlehems zoning code. The coal ash is a waste product from a local coal-fired power plant. Coal ash contains contaminants such as arsenic, lead and mercury. The zoning code requires a 100-foot no-build buffer along the Normans Kill Creek, and prohibits development within the 100-year flood zone of the creek bank. Riverkeeper urges all regulatory entities to seriously consider the local communitys concerns, and uphold the local zoning code.

    New York State has failed in its oversight of the Beacon Island site, and must do better. We cannot reach a sustainable future if we disregard our local environments and communities in the process.

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    Letter from EPA to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, June 23, 2022

    Letter from NOAA to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, July 11, 2022

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    Police look into alleged land-clearing smoke in crash – The Star Online - September 22, 2022 by Mr HomeBuilder

    The Central Java Police are investigating a slash-and-burn that created thick smoke, allegedly causing a pile-up collision involving 13 vehicles killing one and injuring 18 others on a toll road in Brebes.

    Brebes police chief Adj Sr Comr Faisal Febrianto said on Monday that the accident began when a Toyota SUV driver suddenly braked after having difficulty seeing the Pejagan-Pemalang toll road due to thick smoke at kilometer 253.

    The drivers of the other vehicles were not able to respond in time. One of the drivers was killed in the accident.

    We have summoned the toll road operator and owners of the land around the toll road patch, Faisal said.

    According to Faisal, the toll road operator and the highway patrol have held routine patrols, but due to the toll road length of 57.5km, the smoke was not detected before the accident happened.

    Separately, Central Java Police head of traffic directorate Sr Comr Agus Suro Nugroho said the police are calling all toll road companies and state-owned toll road operator Jasa Marga to meet and discuss preventive measures for the future.

    Were calling for not only the management of the toll road, but also the surrounding environment. Lets not have any more rice straw burning which can create thick smoke, disrupting the toll road traffic, Agus said. The Jakarta Post/ANN

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    Jacksonville to Benefit from ARPA Funds Sent to Two Rivers Land Bank – WLDS-WEAI News - September 22, 2022 by Mr HomeBuilder

    The Two Rivers Land Bank got a boost from the City of Jacksonville last week that will help to mitigate vacant and blighted properties.

    The Jacksonville City Council approved a request by the citys Director of Community Development Brian Nyberg for $200,000.00 in funds to be put into the land bank.

    The money going into the land bank is a portion of the more than $2 million in American Rescue Plan Funding that was awarded to the city by the federal government last summer.

    Nyberg says the increased funding heading into the Two Rivers land bank is a big win for both the city and Morgan County. The purpose of the land bank is to help cities and municipalities and counties deal with the vacant and abandoned properties that we have. And we all have them, its not just Jacksonville, I mean its everywhere.

    In Jacksonville that has been my top priority to help clean up and do something with these vacant and abandoned properties, and the main goal is to get with them before they need to be demolished and back on the tax rolls. Which would be good for the city for the county.

    The payments that go for your property taxes, that umbrella, goes for schools, it goes for the police department, fire department, all of the things under that property tax umbrella. So this is a win for the city and the county.

    Nyberg says that even though the land bank is shared between Jacksonville, Quincy, Morgan, and Adams Counties, any money put into the land bank by the city, stays in Jacksonville. That will go into the land bank and pay for the method to get clear title from these properties that have delinquent taxes. They have liens on them. There has actually been a few properties weve had gifted so that makes that process even better and that money from those properties will go back into the land bank.

    It starts with attorney fees and it goes to clearing out the liens and settling any judgments, any delinquent property taxes. A lot of the properties we look at are already going through the tax abatement process, and thats actually this month. So we do have a few properties that we have interceded with the property tax redemption.

    Nyberg says the land bank is also getting a boost from state funding as well. The Illinois Housing Development Authority has already paid for a lot of what attorneys are doing for land banks. And they just signed on for another two years to pay for a lot of the stuff we are doing through the land bank.

    So good things are happening. Look for multiple properties to be on the land bank website. That should be happening very quickly. Theres already a couple of properties on there from Quincy that were donated to the City of Quincy, and we will have the same thing coming up very shortly.

    More information about the Two Rivers Land Bank including properties available for sale can be found at http://www.trlba.org.

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    Wu announces forestry division to preserve and expand tree canopy in Boston – The Boston Globe - September 22, 2022 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Trees are our best green technology to fight climate change and build healthy, beautiful communities, especially as heat and storms intensify, Wu said. Dedicating staff and resources to our new forestry division will empower the city of Boston to strengthen our tree canopy citywide, so every community benefits from these treasured resources.

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    Wu said the new forestry division will grow Bostons tree team from five to 16 city employees, with resources to plant new trees and inspect, maintain, and prune existing ones, focusing on under-canopied and environmental justice neighborhoods.

    The new division will include a director of urban forestry, three arborists, three three-person maintenance crews, and other support staff.

    The larger staff, supported by the citys new investments in trees, will improve the Parks and Recreation Departments ability to respond more quickly to tree maintenance requests and clear a maintenance backlog, with the goal of reducing tree mortality, city officials said.

    Bostons trees beautify our communities, create oxygen, and mitigate the urban heat island effect, while cleaning pollution from our air, said Reverend Mariama White-Hammond, the citys chief of environment, energy, and open space.

    She added: We know that Bostons history of disinvestment has led to inequitable access to trees. I am thrilled that the citys new forestry division will take proactive steps to correct these inequities.

    The city has a history of failing to live up to its promises to plant and protect new trees.

    In 2008, Mayor Thomas M. Menino vowed that Boston would plant 100,000 new trees by 2020, expanding the citys tree canopy by 20 percent.

    Boston, however, fell woefully short.

    Between fiscal years 2008 and 2017, the city planted 9,809 street trees and removed 5,815 a net gain of fewer than 4,000, according to a Globe review of records in 2018.

    While many more trees were planted on private property, which makes up about half of all land in Boston, the citys canopy may have actually decreased in that period.

    When Menino announced his plan in 2007, city officials said a comprehensive assessment found that 29 percent of city land had trees.

    A decade later, an assessment of the citys canopy that used more sophisticated, high-resolution aerial imagery and lasers determined that just 27 percent of Bostons land had trees. A 2014 study by a Boston University professor placed the figure around 25 percent.

    While Boston has challenges that some other cities lack, such as densely populated neighborhoods and limited amounts of open space, its tree canopy lags behind most other cities. Overall, urban areas in Massachusetts have about 65 percent of their land covered by trees; nationally, the figure is 35 percent, according to a 2012 study by the US Forest Service.

    The trees have also been concentrated in some neighborhoods, leading to temperature disparities in those neighborhoods with fewer trees.

    In a city report last year, city officials noted that temperatures in leafier neighborhoods are often significantly lower than in more densely populated areas. For example, on one summer day in 2019, city officials found afternoon temperatures in Chinatown and Lower Roxbury exceeded 105 degrees, about 10 degrees more than in Franklin Park and West Roxbury. There was a similar disparity at night.

    Wus creation of a forestry division follows the first recommendation of the Urban Forest Plan, which has a series of strategies to improve the urban canopy.

    The other efforts include a cyclical care program to proactively protect trees; improving the quality of planting sites and clearing space for trees to grow; and providing more tree data to local groups to enable them to help care for trees in their neighborhoods.

    Our new tree division will significantly expand the citys capacity to plant and care for trees in every neighborhood, said Ryan Woods, director of Boston Parks and Recreation. We are committed to increasing the survival rate of our new plantings and supporting the growth and maturation of trees across Boston, particularly in communities that need more canopy.

    David Abel can be reached at david.abel@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @davabel. Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @TAGlobe.

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    Rising homelessness is tearing California cities apart – POLITICO - September 22, 2022 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Steinberg is one of many California Democrats who have long focused their efforts to curb homelessness on services and shelter, but now find themselves backing more punitive measures as the problem encroaches on public feelings of peace and safety. Its a striking shift for a state where 113,000 people sleep outdoors on any given night, per the latest statewide analysis released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2020. Californias relatively mild climate makes it possible to live outdoors year-round, and more than half of the nations unsheltered homeless people live here.

    Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom recently announced the state had cleared 1,200 encampments in the past year, attempting to soften the message with a series of visits to social service programs. But without enough beds to shelter unhoused people, advocates say efforts to clear encampments are nothing more than cosmetic political stunts that essentially shuffle the problem from street corner to another.

    Steinberg, a liberal Democrat who resisted forcibly removing people until more shelters can come online, has for more than 20 years championed mental health and substance abuse programs as ways to get people off the street. But such programs have been largely unable to keep up with the rising number of homeless people in cities like Sacramento, where local leaders are now besieged by angry citizens demanding a change.

    He and many of his fellow Democratic mayors around the state are not unsympathetic to their cause. San Diego has penalized people refusing shelter. Oakland upped its rate of camp closures as the pandemic receded. San Jose is scrambling to clear scores of people from an area near the airport or risk losing federal funding.

    No ones happy to have to do this. ... Were doing everything we can to provide people with better choices than the street.

    San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria

    No ones happy to have to do this, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria said earlier this summer as he discussed ticketing people who refuse shelter. Were doing everything we can to provide people with better choices than the street.

    Other Democratic leaders around the country, facing similar pressure, have also moved to clear out encampments and push homeless people out of public spaces. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a former police captain who won his office on a pledge to fight crime, came under fire this year for his removal of homeless people from subways and transit hubs. The citys shelter system is now bursting at the seams.

    In California, where the percentage of people living day-to-day on the streets is far higher than New York, the shortage of shelter beds has caused friction and embroiled local and state officials in court challenges.

    A recent court decision requires local governments to provide enough beds before clearing encampments a mandate that does not apply to state property. But thats easier said than done in a state where there are three to four times as many homeless people as shelter beds.

    Californias homelessness problem has deep, gnarled roots dating back decades, but has become increasingly pronounced in recent years. Tents and tarps on sidewalks, in parks and under freeways have become a near-ubiquitous symbol of the states enduring crisis. A pandemic-spurred project to move people from encampments to motels has lapsed, and eviction moratoriums have dissolved. Homelessness is a top concern for voters in the liberal state, and as Democrats prepare for the midterm elections, Newsom and other leaders have been eager to show voters theyre taking action.

    But the practice of clearing out camps can be a futile exercise, particularly when the people being forced to pack up their tents have nowhere else to go or simply end up doing the same thing just a few blocks away.

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    In bid to win trust of project proponents, Maharashtra govt to lift stay on 183 industrial plots allotted – Free Press Journal - September 22, 2022 by Mr HomeBuilder

    In bid to win trust of project proponents, Maharashtra govt to lift stay on 183 industrial plots allotted after June 1 | File

    Amid the ongoing Vedanta Foxconn saga, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday asked the industry department to vacate stay on 183 land allotments to various industrial projects that were earlier cleared after June 1. Of the 191 industrial land allotments, 183 were allotted after June 1 and the Shinde Fadnavis government had asked the industry department to hold a review in order to check that the stipulated norms were followed while clearing those land allotments by the land clearance committee of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC).

    As reported by the Free Press Journal, those 183 plots were cleared up to August 25 and thereafter MIDC received proposals through e-bidding for another 343 plots. With CMs directives, these plots are expected to be cleared to avoid a trust deficit between the state government and the project proponents, especially in the wake of the Vedanta Foxconn fiasco.

    A total of 526 plots were spread over 2,402.5 acres (961 hectares) with a proposed investment of Rs 27,000 crore and 61,000 jobs.

    Shinde has reiterated the state governments commitment to facilitate investments and project developments in a hassle-free manner. He has made it clear that major investment proposals are in the pipeline and they will be cleared on a priority basis.

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    ‘Dreadful’ tip being cleared after business complains of rats and flytipping – Liverpool Echo - September 22, 2022 by Mr HomeBuilder

    An absolutely dreadful rubbish tip in Bromborough is finally being cleared after rats were spotted in the area.

    Jeremy Poupard, the Deputy Quality Manager for Marine Specialised Technology Group (MST), said it has had a massive impact on his business.

    He said: To start with, it was absolutely dreadful, adding People would go out to their cars and see rats coming through the fence in quite large numbers.

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    The rubbish sits on land just off Magazine Lane on Riverbank Road. It was previously managed by a waste management company, which went into voluntary liquidation in 2021.

    The Environment Agency said they were working with the current landowners to clear the waste and working with Wirral Council officers to ensure this is done.

    In April 2022, MST moved next door where the company built ships and boats, including for the Navy meaning Government officials often visit the site.

    He said: The biggest issue is that we have lots of customers on the site. We have people from the Ministry of Defence. I used to say to them that you cant miss us as we are right next to the rubbish tip.

    Mr Poupard said that once his wife refused to get out of the car when picking him up because there were about five or six rats running around the car park. It isnt what you would expect at work.

    When MST first moved next door, Mr Poupard said he started to make enquiries. He said: I couldnt understand how long it has been there. We got rid of close to 300 tonnes of rubbish from our site but we definitely had some bits coming across from next door.

    He said fly tipping was a big issue with people leaving waste outside their gate and was worried about antisocial behaviour both on the site and in the area.

    Mr Poupard began contacting both the Environmental Agency and Wirral Council. He was concerned about the environmental impacts and whether any assessments were done on the site.

    He said they see a lot of wildlife on their land: Birds nest at the end of our wall, green plover, shell ducks nest on our land and plenty of wading birds. We even have foxes too.

    Mr Poupard told The Echo he had been assured the waste would be cleared by February 2023 but believes this is ambitious. However he said that since work has begun to clear the site, it is now a lot better.

    An Environment Agency spokesperson said: We are working with the landowners of a site in Bromborough to offer advice and guidance around their legal duty to clear their land of waste.

    Waste operators are responsible for keeping their sites within permitted levels and clearing the land if necessary. If the waste operator ceases operations, then the landowner becomes responsible for removing waste.

    Members of the public can report waste crime to our incident hotline on 0800 80 70 60 or anonymously to Crimestoppers.

    A Wirral Council spokesperson said: "The site is private land and not a council tip or authorised in any way by Wirral Council.

    "We understand it is currently subject to enforcement action by the Environment Agency with whom council officers are working closely.

    We are aware of the understandable concerns the community, local businesses and local elected members have raised. We would urge anyone noticing any further issues there to contact the Environment Agency.

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    Genshin Impact A Prayer for Rain on the Fecund Land quest guide – Gamepur - September 22, 2022 by Mr HomeBuilder

    In Genshin Impact, A Prayer for Rain on the Fecund Land is the final quest of the Varuna Gatha World Quest series, and is unlocked when youve completed Memory of Stone, Irate Iron Chunk, and Slumbering Roots. A Prayer for Rain on the Fecund Land takes place in and around the Apam Woods in the Ashavan Realm, Sumeru.

    Related: How to find and complete the Spire of Solitary Enlightenment Domain in Genshin Impact

    If you headed to the Rest Stop at the end of the last quest, then youll already be right in front of the four Aranara you need to talk to at the start of the quest. Otherwise, follow the marker to the Rest Stop and talk to the Aranara. After speaking to them, there is no map marker for the next objective, but the Varunastra is the big tree-stump thing with a glowing orb inside it on the island in the middle of Apam Woods, and it should be right in front of you when the conversation finishes so just head straight for it.

    If you follow the Seelie across the water and up the slope, youll get near the Varunastra and get a chest into the bargain. Its possible to get all the way into the center of the Varunastra without completing this objective. If that happens, just go back out again and wander around the island until another conversation is triggered.

    After the conversation, the hole in the middle of the Varunastra will open up, so head up the slope and glide down into the hole. Follow the tunnel southwest until you find a Teleport Waypoint and another conversation starts. Go up to the white ball of sluff with blue fungi poking out of it, and interact with it to clear the spores. This will release a fungi boss, the Disturbed Fungus.

    Fight the Disturbed Fungus until it runs away. Follow it northeast into the tunnel, fighting it and other fungi. In the cavern with lots of Electro crystals, try to stay away from the crystals, and out of the water generally, as they inflict constant Electro damage. Continue up the tunnel, dashing past the exploding fungi, then in the next chamber, its best to try to stay on the high ledge on the left, away from the exploding fungi.

    Continue west along the path to the next cavern, and defeat the Disturbed Fungus once and for all in the clearing at the far end. This will complete the A Prayer for Rain on the Fecund Land quest, and youll get the Rhythm of the Source Water song, which gives you the power to control the weather.

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    Clearing sale to stop temptation to work – Otago Daily Times - September 22, 2022 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Green Island Bush Farms owner Ross Smaill will be clearing out his shed in Dunedin on Friday. The self-proclaimed workaholic talks to Shawn McAvinue about how his body has been telling him to take it easy since he was involved in a tragic accident.

    A Dunedin farmer is slower since a horror crash, but his hard-working mentality remains fighting fit.

    Green Island Bush Farms owner Ross Smaill is having a clearing sale on Friday, on the farm where he was born and raised.

    The 62-year-old is clearing out his shed in Blackhead due to health reasons.

    I should have let go after the accident but Im a stubborn old sod.

    The accident happened in 2017. He was driving a 12-tonne truck loaded with bobby calves. He moved left to let a milk tanker pass and went off the sealed State Highway 1, near Edendale.

    His truck rolled down a small bank and through a fence before coming to rest on its side in a paddock.

    Passengers in his truck were his neighbours 4-year-old boy and the boys 6-year-old twin siblings.

    The 4-year-old died in the ambulance, his cause of death ruled to be a cardiac arrest.

    The death of the boy affected him and he often reflected on it, especially when he saw young children, he said.

    It knocks you back but youve got to get up and get going.

    He still displays a picture of the boy at his home.

    Hes a wee angel, hes still in your life, hes still there.

    Mr Smaills range of injures from the accident included a broken pelvis. His feet were badly injured because they got jammed under the pedals in the crash.

    I ripped them out because I had three kids in the truck.

    After being discharged from hospital, he remained in a wheelchair for about eight months.

    He is still on crutches, has nerve damage and issues with his kidneys.

    The physical strength he had before the accident never returned.

    You think youll come right but youre not, so youve just got to slow down and work with it but keep doing something to get you out of bed in the morning.

    He was a self-proclaimed workaholic.

    One of six children, he left school aged 15 and took over the family dairy farm. About two years later he was milking about 50 cows.

    The teenagers working day would start at 3am to milk the herd, before he started his full-time job as a boner at Burnside Freezing Works - some weeks he worked up to 90 hours, until the plant closed in 2008.

    During his time at the works, he bought more land and quadrupled the number of cows he was milking, a mix of Friesians and Ayrshires.

    The farm produced part of the town milk supply.

    It was milking twice a day, seven-days-a-week, for nearly 40 years.

    That was my bread and butter.

    After the meat works closed, he diversified his business interests, including fencing and completing three residential subdivisions in Dunedin.

    It was all go.

    The success of the subdivisions prompted him to stop milking cows about a decade ago. He wanted to stay in farming, so he brought in beef calves to rear.

    Farming is ingrained in you.

    He was selling all his heavy machinery on Friday to stop him being tempted to do work, which his body was not up for.

    After the sale, he would continue to rear calves on about 12ha, he said.

    Ive got to have something to do, otherwise Ill go nuts.

    The plan was to stay living on his farm where life was good, spending time with friends and family.

    Both men played Green Island Rugby Football Club, Mr Smaill as a prop. A photo on the wall shows Mr Smaill pouring a beer for All Blacks great Colin Meads, at a function in 2006.

    He used to be a boxer and competed at tournaments.

    A promotional poster for one of the tournaments - The South Island Golden Gloves at Mayfair Theatre in South Dunedin - hangs on the wall in the function room.

    After the accident, there were days he doubted he could continue to fight for his life, so he got someone to make him a plywood coffin, he said.

    His wife Kathryn had made him move the coffin from the living room to a shed outside.

    Im organised - Im ready to go - but if any cheeky bugger wants it, Ill offer it to them.

    SHAWN.MCAVINUE@alliedpress.co.nz

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    Environmental Assessment Bulletin – News Releases – Government of Newfoundland and Labrador - September 22, 2022 by Mr HomeBuilder

    The Honourable Bernard Davis, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, has announced the following relative to Part 10 Environmental Assessment of the Environmental Protection Act.

    UNDERTAKING REGISTERED:

    Springdale Glove Manufacturing Facility (Reg. 2218)Proponent: Superior Gloves

    The proponent proposes the construction and operation of a glove manufacturing facility on a 16,250 square metre site in the Town of Springdale Industrial Park, located off Route 390. The manufacturing building would be a 2,400 square metre structure made of pre-engineered steel on a reinforced concrete foundation. A description of the project can be found on the departments webpage at: http://www.gov.nl.ca/eccm/env-assessment/projects-list/.

    The undertaking was registered on September 16, 2022; the deadline for public comments is October 26, 2022; and the ministers decision is due by October 31, 2022.

    Environmental Preview Report Required:Deer Lake Dairy Secondary Processing Facility (Reg. 2203)Proponent: The Real Dairy Company of Newfoundland Inc.

    The minister has advised the proponent that an environmental preview report (EPR) is required for this project. Additional information is needed to inform the minister of the following, including, but not limited to: a Wastewater Management Plan which demonstrates how industrial wastewater effluent will comply withthe Environmental Control Water and Sewer Regulations; a Waste Management Plan that identifies the management of all potential waste streams generated at the facility; a Contingency Plan that identifies disposal options in the event that these waste streams cannot be fully utilized, and a plan for the quick and effective response to a spill event.

    An Environmental Assessment Committee (EAC) has been appointed to provide scientific and technical advice to the minister and to draft guidelines for the proponent for preparation of the EPR. The EAC includes representatives from the following provincial government departments and agencies:

    UNDERTAKINGS RELEASED:

    Holyrood Pond RV & Day Park (Reg. 2205)Proponent: Frank Tobin and Rennie Tobin

    Carmanville New Pond Cabins ATV Trail (Reg. 2186)Proponent: Wayne Hicks

    The project was released subject to the following conditions:

    Learn moreEnvironmental Assessment DivisionDepartment of Environment and Climate ChangeWest Block, Confederation BuildingP.O. Box 8700, St. Johns, NL A1B 4J6

    Public comments may be forwarded to: EAprojectcomments@gov.nl.ca

    Environmental assessment information is available at:

    http://www.gov.nl.ca/ecc/env-assessment/

    http://www.gov.nl.ca/ecc/files/GUIDE-TO-THE-PROCESS_Dec2021

    Follow us on Twitter: @GovNL and @ECC_GovNL

    If you submit comments on a project that is under environmental assessment, please advise the Department if you DO NOT wish to share your comments with the project proponent.

    Media contactLynn RobinsonEnvironment and Climate Change709-729-5449, 691-9466lynnrobinson@gov.nl.ca

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