Decision Date: March 28, 1996

Panel: Ben van Drimmelen; Elizabeth Keay; Carol Martin

Bennett Remediation Services applied for three permits to construct and operate an incinerator to treat contaminated materials. The permits were issued by the Ministry. Three Appellant environmental groups appealed to the Board on the grounds that the permits, as issued, did not adequately protect the local environment. The Board held that the three permits should be issued but that two of the permits be amended. The Board added two conditions to the air discharge permit to include activated charcoal filtration in the process and to delay operation until a local beehive burner ceased operation. The Board decided that two conditions should be added to the short term storage permit such that all test records be kept on site for two years and that conditions relating to prohibited materials be included. The Board added another condition to the short term storage permit requiring an on-site laboratory capable of comprehensive testing and characterization of feedstock prior to any incineration.