Public Meeting on Vale Inco’s Request for an Alteration of Air Standard
Date and Time: Wednesday January 21st, 2009, 7:00 pm
Location: Room C-11, Tom Davies Square, 200 Brady Street, City of Greater Sudbury.
People attending can park in the underground lot at the City. Parking is free after 6:00 pm.
On October 31st, 2008, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE) received a request from Vale Inco to consider an alteration to the nickel in air standard under Ontario Regulation 419/05, which comes into effect for the facility on Feb 1st, 2010.
For an Altered Standard to be considered, the facility must demonstrate that it is doing the best that can be done to reduce concentrations with a goal of continual improvement towards meeting the standard over time. As part of this request, Vale Inco hosted a public meeting on October 23rd, 2008 to inform the local community about the request.
On December 11th, 2008, the MOE posted the proposed request for the altered standard on the Environmental Bill of Rights Registry (EBR) for public comment (EBR Registry Number 010-5356).
Due to the interest expressed by the community at the October public meeting, the Ministry has organized a follow up meeting with the local community in which you will have an opportunity to learn more about the Alteration of Standards process and the framework for the Ministry’s review of the Request that was recently submitted by Vale Inco.
Public comments will be considered during the Ministry’s review. The Ministry is also willing to host further public consultation meetings over the next year at specific milestones during the review process. The purpose of these meetings would be to ensure that the local community is involved in the Ministry’s review to the extent possible, and is kept informed of the status.
If you have any additional questions, please contact
Northwatch
Box 282, North Bay P1B 8H2
tel 705 497 0373 fax 476 7060
northwatch@onlink.net
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