Posted on 12/01/2005 2:19:18 PM PST by doc30
Lansing, Mich. — State legislators on Thursday took another step toward barring Canadian trash from Michigan landfills, but the ban will not take effect unless Congress also takes action.
The state Senate voted 34-1 to approve a bill that would prohibit Canadian and other foreign waste from being dumped in Michigan, if Congress authorizes it. The legislation now heads back to the state House.
While the legislation received overwhelming approval, some Democrats criticized it.
"Since Congress is very unlikely to pass this law, the bill itself is very much symbolic," said Sen. Liz Brater, D-Ann Arbor. "It's window dressing. ... We've been waiting on Congress to act on this issue for decades."
Senators rejected attempts by Democrats to tie the measure to bills that would increase the dumping fee on trash from 21 cents per ton to $6 per ton and extend a moratorium on landfill expansions.
Brater said Michigan's dumping fee is too low, encouraging other states and Canada to bring their waste here. But Republicans are worried constituents would have to pay more if the higher fees were in place.
"Municipalities cannot afford to pay this tipping fee," said Sen. Gerald Van Woerkom, R-Norton Shores. "They've been dinged by revenue sharing (cuts), and they know they can't raise millages in their communities to do it."
The federal legislation authorizing the trash ban is pending in the U.S. House.
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At first, I thought that this was a ban on visits by Martin or Trudeau...
No more Globe and Mail, eh?
Keep Canadian garbage OUT of the USA! Canada must deal with its own trash!
>>>Keep Canadian garbage OUT of the USA! Canada must deal with its own trash!
Why? If someone can make some money off of it, why not allow them. If dumping is prevented in Canada, it seems like an opportunity for a landfill owner to get a higher rate than for US garbage.
Trudeau is dead but Canadian trash should not be going the Michigan.
It just makes it easier for Canadian cities to avoid their disposal problems.
Maybe we should ship it to North Carolina. And BTW You have to charge them rock bottom rates.
Oh, yeah?
You folks have no problem telling your liberals to move here! /sarcastic joke
You said it. Much of Canada's politcal problems are due to the influx of US commies/socialists who ran north.
US landfills make enough handling US trash. Let Canada dispose of its own trash!
>>>Maybe we should ship it to North Carolina. And BTW You have to charge them rock bottom rates.
If someone in NC thinks they can make some money off of it, why not? Any why would they have to accept a rock bottom rate? Whatever happened to what the market will bear. They've got to get rid of it, so they are likely willing to pay a high price to remove it.
If Canadian garbage has be disposed of in Canada, then does all Michigan garbage have to be disposed of in Michigan - All Detroit garbage in Detroit - Each household's garbage in its own yard?
What is your opinion on the nuclear storage facility in Nevada. Should each state be responsinble for setting up its own storage or should they be allowed to ship it out?
Swap you. :)
>>>US landfills make enough handling US trash. Let Canada dispose of its own trash!
You want to limit the amount of money that a landfill operator can make? That is not a very free market position.
You folks have no problem telling your liberals to move here! /sarcastic joke
We don't tell them ANYTHING! THEY tell us where they want to move.
Great idea!
Put all the American lefties under the trash shipped to Michigan from Toronto!
Quick! Before this motion passes in Congress!
Guess this means Michigan will have to send their governor back!!
Does this legislation apply to the current governor?
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