| Feds not in position to object to dump
site |
| By Morgan Ian Adams |
| Enterprise-Bulletin (Fri, February 9, 2000) |
| CLEARVIEW TOWNSHIP - Transport Canada could only make a
recommendation to not put a dump near Collingwood's municipal airport - it
could not object. |
| That's according to a Transport Canada spokesperson, who
told the Enterprise-Bulletin this week the eight-kilometre buffer between
a landfill and an airport is only a guideline, and not a federal
regulation. |
| "We have no jurisdiction with respect to provincial
land-use planning," said Gail Crossman. |
| However, Transport Canada can get involved with airport
zoning, she said. |
| Under Section 5.4 of the Aeronautics Act, which deals with
airport zoning, the Governor in Council may make regulations for the
purposes of preventing lands adjacent to or in the vicinity of a federal
airport or an airport site from being used or developed in a manner
that is, in the opinion of the Minister, incompatible with the operation of
an airport, or incompatible with the safe operation of an airport or
aircraft. |
| Crossman said the province will have to request Transport
Canada to enter into an agreement under the Aerodrome Act. |
| Under the Aeronautics Act, it also specifies Governor in
Council shall not make a zoning regulation unless the Minister, after
making a reasonable attempt to do so, has been unable to reach an
agreement with the government of the province in which the lands to which
the zoning regulation applies are situated providing for the use or
development of the lands in a manner that is compatible with the operation
of an airport. |
| The Order in Council for Site 1-1's environmental
assessment specifies the county must hire a bird control specialist to
develop a bird control program; a program which must be reviewed and
accepted by Transport Canada before a certificate of approval is issued
for the site. |
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