Biosolid fight gets a little help from Ellen Page
Posted Aug 17, 2010 05:54:44 AM.
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Nova Scotia-born actress Ellen Page is speaking out against the use of biosolids on an HRM street.
Clayton Park residents are still holding their noses after the controversial fertilizer was spread along the median on a portion of Dunbrack Street last week.
Page visited the neighbourhood on Monday and tells CBC she’s frightened by the use of human waste as fertilizer. She says a lot more research is needed into whether it’s safe.
Safe or not, resident Stephanie LaCroix tells CTV it sure is stinky.
“I don’t know how anybody can handle this,” she said. “I live exactly 20 feet away from where it’s going and it’s really gross. You walk up the street and you just want to gag.”
Coun. Debbie Hum (Rockingham-Wentworth) says she’s not convinced the treated human waste is safe. Regardless, she says she would like to have been told about it before residents got a whiff.
Richard McLellan of HRM’s sustainable environment management office says the biosolid mixture is safe – but he says he’s learned a couple of lessons about using it in an urban area.
“If I had to set the reset button, we would have told the public, we would have talked to council a little bit more about this,” he said.
The biosolids have also been spread in Point Pleasant Park, but so far there haven’t been reports of any complaints.
