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DUROY. own to brass tacks) The Metro Provincial Task Force‘s Report on Liquid Industrial Waste Disposal, which was released about a month ago. confirms our fears that a crisis has been permitted to develop with respect to liquid in- dustrial waste disposal. Queen’s Park Regort One fact which is clear is that 20 per cent of the wastes which were presently sent to the Beare Road site in Scarborough are at present unaccounted for: that site is now closed down. A further 20 per cent is transported to the United States, but that border is expected to close to these wastes December 31 of this year. No alternative disposal arrangements have apparently been made. By ALF STONG request MLA â€"- YORK CENTRE as long KES Nor has the Govern- ment introduced legislation enabling in- spectors to enter private premises and monitor wastes, in spite of the fact that Metro Council ’ALE POTATO RICERS AND D PRESSURE COOKERS. lowe r level Liquid waste - Where will it go? requested such legislation as long ago as February, The Report utilizes a table giving the present whereabouts of Ontario‘s hazardous liquid wastes -â€" a table which is questionable, to say the least, being based upon estimations and ap- proximations. How can it be otherwise when the Ministry has not yet received replies to letters sent to some 240 industries requesting information on their waste disposal problems and practices? The picture is further clouded by the Ministry‘s failure to implement an effective way-bill system in Ontario. Former Environment Minister, George Kerr, stated that industry should be responsible for its own waste disposal, absorbing the cost as a business expense. In direct contradiction the Task Force recom- mends that “the Ministry of the Environment, alone, or in conjunction with private enterprise, should acquire and ap- prove sites and processes." Regrettably. the Task Force has failed to ad- dress many of the problems raised in the Report itself. No legislation is proposed to close loop holes in the Ministry of Environ- ment‘s way-bill systemr There are no recom- mendations as to how the Province should acquire and license disposal sites. There are no incentives for established industries to redesign their processing facilities in order to recover, reuse. exchange or sell their wastes. The Report refers only to new industries. There is no provision for requiring immediate replies from those in- dustries which have been sent letters from the Ministry requesting in» formation on the whereabouts of wastes which are generated. The Task Force conâ€" eludes “it would appear that no increase in the TRAVEL BAGS, TENNlS RACQUETS AND TOLSTOY. _ number of outlets will occur in the near future." This conclusion, based on an enumeration of project proposals currently before the Ministry, is a further indication of the very serious problems of toxic liquid industrial waste disposal in Ontario ~â€" problems which urgently require solution. liquid industrial waste disposal in Ontario problems which urgently require solution. A number of people have already questioned the wisdom of taking action based solely on the recommendations of the Metro-Provincial Task Force on Liquid Industrial Waste Disposal as â€" recommendations which have been for- mula‘ted on the basis of The Metro Task Force has obviously not really been able to come to grips with the very serious environmental hazards posed by innate measures for the disposal of liquid industrial waste. Many of the concerns and questions raised in the Report must be given urgent consideration by the Standing Committee on Resource Develop- ment. our advertisers stand for QUALITY El}: Iihtral incomplete information provided by the Ministry of the Environment. Such recommendations must, inevitably, fail to recognize the wide ranging and serious waste disposal problems of the Province. And there’s lots more to come. THE LIBERAL. Wednesday, October 25, 1978 â€" C-‘ MANILA ENVELOPES, MACRAME 7 AND a MICROWAVES. A ND SO MUCH MORE.