{"id":198,"date":"2012-04-13T16:50:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T20:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2012-06-01T10:41:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T14:41:34","slug":"lasalle-and-montreal-east-now-st-michel-and-west-island-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/lasalle-and-montreal-east-now-st-michel-and-west-island-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Composting Centres: LaSalle and Montreal East Now, St. Michel and West Island Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Montreal plans to build a pre-treatment centre on the Demix quarry in East Montreal and a compost centre in LaSalle right away, and will search for an appropriate site on the west island so that it can be opened along with a site at the St. Michel Environment Complex, just as a recent consultation into the subject recommended.<\/p>\n

Commissioners Andr\u00e9 Beauchamp, Jean Burton Michel Hamelin and Nicole Brodeur were appointed by Montreal\u2019s Public Consultation Office to examine the cities\u2019 organic waste treatment. They released their final report on Wednesday, April 4.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the east end, the commission recommends that the pilot pre-treatment centre be established on the site of the Demix quarry, as planned, and that every effort be made to involve a university chair. As to the biomethanation centres, the commission recommends that the agglomeration proceed immediately with the acquisition and decontamination of the Solutia site, and with the establishment of a centre in the borough of LaSalle, in the first phase of the treatment project, unless the short-term combination of a biomethanation centre and the pilot pre-treatment centre on the Demix site is considered a significant economic lever for the east end of the island of Montr\u00e9al.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report forms part of a legal process that is necessary because the city\u2019s agglomeration council\u2019s proposed to set up four closed waste treatment buildings on the island last June. The largest building, a biomethanation and pre-treatment test centre, would be built in the Demix Quarry site in Montreal East. A second biomethanation plant was supposed to be opened on Solutia Canada Inc. land in LaSalle, to be used once the initial plant reached its capacity. Two composting centres were supposed to be built: one on ADM property in Dorval and another on the St. Michel Environmental Complex.<\/p>\n

For that plan to occur, the urban plans of the two boroughs and two cities would have to be modified.<\/p>\n

That’s what led to information sessions in St. Michel, Montreal-East, Dorval and LaSalle in early November. Then a second series of hearings began so that commissioners could listen to citizen concerns and comments in each location on November 30 and through December. Citizens complained about traffic, odors, centralization, a lack of citizen involvement and education, and the need for a strategy to minimize the production of waste on the island.<\/p>\n

After the process began, the ADM refused to agree to sell their property and no other property had been identified on the west island.<\/p>\n

Given those circumstances, the commissioners recommended that the LaSalle and Eastern Montreal sites be developed immediately and a west island and the St. Michel sites come on board at the same time. Their idea is to ensure a level of territorial equality in waste treatment infrastructure.<\/p>\n

For a copy of the full report, visit the organizations website at www.ocpm.qc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(A version of this story appeared in The Suburban on April 11, 2012.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Montreal plans to build a pre-treatment centre on the Demix quarry in East Montreal and a compost centre in LaSalle right away, and will search for an appropriate site on the west island so that it can be opened along with a site at the St. Michel Environment Complex, just as a recent consultation into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-report","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-3c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1255,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/montreal-for-tomorrow-consultations\/","url_meta":{"origin":198,"position":0},"title":"\u201cMontreal for Tomorrow\u201d Consultations","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"November 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The City of Montreal is holding consultations on a sustainable development plan for the next 20 years that will be adopted in early 2013. 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