The Rotary Spinner December 12, 2024
Notes from the Rotary Meeting 12.30pm Thursday, December 12, 2024
President Jackie chaired the meeting.
Club Business
Jackie announced that the Toonie Quest West toonie count Christmas Week will be done on Monday, December 23rd at the usual time starting around 1pm at the Port Office.
Guest Speaker
Program-chair Bernd introduced guest speaker Jason King, Chief Administrative Officer, CAO of the Western Regional Service Board. He did his presentation on the Wild Cove waste site. Following a study by CBCL, an Engineering and Consulting company from Halifax, which indicated that the Corner Brook site as it stands is in its final years as a viable site for waste disposal.
Jason began his illustrated presentation by looking into the history and background of the Wild Cove site. He then spoke about the current operations and how they differ from past waste disposal. He ended his talk by considering the question “What is next?”
Around 2014 Corner Brook took over Wild Cove from the Pulp and Paper Mill. It became a regular dump but did not meet today’s waste disposal standards. Jason showed pictures and drone pictures of the Wild Cove area. He talked about what could and could not be disposed of in Wild Cove and how this is determined by Government regulations. He illustrated with a map the possible extensions to the present site and how the area could be developed to meet waste disposal that would satisfy the standards of today and those of the future.
He referred to one earlier study when two endangered plants the rattle snake root and northern bog aster plan were found to be growing in a proposed extension area, resulting in plans having to be adapted to avoid areas where these plants were growing.
The talk was interesting especially with the diagrams, maps and drone photos that showed the plans for the future of Wild Cove in Western Newfoundland and the changes that would be needed in the area.
Gerry thanked Jason on behalf of the club before the meeting was adjourned