'It's disgusting:' Meat chunks falling from sky have one BC community fed up
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- Residents in the Yankee Flats and Silver Creek area of B.C.'s Shuswap are exploring legal action against a local compost facility.
The neighbours surrounding the Spa Hills Farm say there is a lack of oversight and regulation of the business.
Deneed Tomlinson describes living next to the facility as “disgusting.”
“There’s plastic all over my horse pasture, there’s meat chunks that the birds are dropping into the pen, into our yard,” she said.
Tomlinson told Global News the meat and bones she finds on her property come from the compost facility.
And she isn’t the only neighbour saying they are upset with the Spa Hills compost company.
Global's Travis Lowe reports.
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Our city council tried to slide past my neighbourhood a fish gut compost company....right in the middle of a residential neighbourhood in the central part of our city.....The seagull population exploded, many residents close to the factory started to become ill...with blinding headaches and breathing problems....The city had no choice but to remove that companies resource consent.....as their so called 'in-house' containment system wasn't as good as the company reported.....Never forget...governments are elected by the ratepayer/tax payer....elected to manage our needs...not the needs of their donors.....too many people forget this and allow governments at act as authoritarians.....
Funny how these types of facility never seem to end up neighboring a politicians property.
Grow up its about wealth not being a politician..plenty of new (ie poorer) municipal politiicans end up fked by their own city somehow. That's why they took the job..to move to a better neighborhood lol.
These are the People who Demanded eco friendly solutions.
.... They got it
London Ontario doesn’t have a ring road because politicians didn’t want it to be near their house in the north end. Funny how these politicians can say “ not in my backyard “ but approve things calling it progress in someone else’s backyard. Now it’s a big bottle neck going anywhere. Too bad these people couldn’t have used the same approach before these “ organic “ waste factories were built.
This business didn't just show up overnight.
Was there not meetings and consultations and city permits involved?
City?
doesn't meet the citizens got much of a say.
Ah yes, the default assumption people are honest and work for the benefit of the whole. I appreciate your bottomless optimism.
@@ferociousgustafson4040
Neither actually.
Reality is there is a process to things.
Just asking what happened before getting to this stage. One needs to at least act a little naive first before defaulting to true bottomless pessimism.
You think businesses get permits? Ask to.operate? Do things legally? Not in oregon...not in california. The onky way to make businesses do the right thing is to sue them or report them and hope that works.
This is subject for a new show "Only in BC"
Nobody mentioned the bears, rats and raccoons....moving in
Very few government officials have to be qualified in anything, let alone civic duties
The usual government response, passing the blame
USUALLY THE GOVERNMENT BLAMES THE VICTIMS
CSRD can only operate within the law... Just like you, as an individual, cannot behave like a vigilante instead of calling the cops.
What a joke
It's comforting to know we all contributed in our own small way.
You would think that a facility such as this would be kept much further from adjacent residential properties. Anything that reasonably would be objectionable to neighbours should have been considered before the permit was issued. The compost plant is not a bad thing but needs to be managed properly, animal carcasses should be in enclosed systems for biological safety.
i thought the same but i believe this all looked like farm lands which are usually already away from the town... I'm not sure how much further they could go, they shouldn't have to close down because composting is a net positive
@@lpltyou live beside one and tell me how it’s such a good idea
@@clinttrost5743Good comment! Iam sure the land prices are going down around this area now!
LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣 NIMBY personified! 🤦
@@clinttrost5743 how about YOU move 😂
I live near a animal rendering plant right in my city, the stench can be nauseating on most days and depending on the wind can be tolerable but it's been here for maybe 70 + years.
I know what neighbourhood you’re in… good old West Coast Reductions. The smell is BAD…
How can you complain about these places when you buy animal products? You're the reason these places exists.
Sue em for loss of peaceful living which is totallly a thing.
Each of those 70+ people could file a small claims in BC for up to $38,000. You can file online in 1 day.
Thats over 2.6 million and would force them to close operations.
That's a pretty malicious response for someone who is cooperating on trying to change his business to improve the complaints being brought to him.
Yes sue.
@@cosmicturban2797What are you on about?
With respect to waste management, some citizens will live inevitably live near a municipal dump, recycling or composting facility. The local government and community need to collaborate as to best mitigate environmental and residential impact.
Cloudy with a chance of ... 🤣
cloudy with a chance of scapula 🫢
Step 1 Demand Environmentally friendly Composting
Step 2 Complain about Composting
just NIMBY.
Free barbeque.
Spa Hills. Can't make this tihs up.
Yeah but ... a perfect way to make yourself really sick!
@@francoisleveille409 that's what chili and lime are for.
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If they’re operating legally on land that is zoned to be a compost facility, what are they supposed to do? Should they be forced to buy all land adjacent to their property just to prevent people from complaining
The report doesn’t say who was there first.
Ya gotta pay the right people in Govt.
I worked in a temporary office for a pipeline job in Chilliwack BC in the summer of 1991. We had office trailers set up in a yard we rented and my particular trailer faced right at the back of what was a pet food rendering plant. In the summer when it was quite often 35°C or more, they would daily bring in the cow stiffs not fit for human consumption that had died in various area fields the night or day before, and hoist them up by the legs and disembowel them into dumpster type bins, all within our sight (AND SMELL!!) It was absolutely grotesque and nearly vomit 🤮 inducing! So I can relate to her plight!
In Edmonton we are told to put only non-protein leftovers into our compost bin, no bones, no chunks of meat. The city collects them, processes at their facility and invites everybody to come and pick the ready compost for free. Additionally, I do my own composting for the third year already. What goes in there is only vegetarian leftovers, grass clippings, weeds, plants that finished producing, tree leaves, etc. I was worried we'll have unpleasant smell (although the compost bin has a tight-fitting lid), but - no, the smell is actually pleasant, especially when I add a lot of apples fallen from our backyard apple tree. I leave it outside over the winter, and work it into the soil next spring, when it doesn't even look like garbage or kitchen leftovers. But leftover chicken, fish, meat, and bones should never be mixed into it. Rotten meat and fish have a foul smell, they don't belong in compost. They should be processed and disposed separately and at quite a distance from where people live. They have absolutely no value for improving the soil.
Sell your horse pasture and move to Sidney
Oh look, a 15 minute city supporter.
Who's in charge of zoning and permits? You should go interview them.
They should be required to build a bird proof fence around and over the property fully containing what they do there.
IT's green, that's not what you wanted !
Oh no! It's like the "Sky Meat" incident in Kentucky, when a bunch of vultures threw up half digested rotting meat all over the place! That's pretty disgusting.
Are they not using birds of prey such as trained hawks and a designated bird handler on their payroll?
Speaking of trashing others' properties ...
Follow the money!
What are they waiting for? Considering legal action? Act on it.
Would love to see both sides get together to discuss the issue reasonably and rationally. The residents have concerns......it seems like the owner of the facility is working to mitigate some of the concerns. Communication, negotiation, listening and understanding are all important and sometimes forgotten in these emotional issues.
I used to work on a fish compost site. There are ways around the problems they have. They aren't cheap but they are effective. There's is a mess. Poorly executed.
When you had a big factory in town you had to build a big smokestack ... I don't understand why their industrial waste is any different... They are polluting plain and simple.
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These people are farmers or horse people. And they are complaining about smell. They must be rich people that bought property in the country. I know chicken farmers dairy farmers pig farmers and never once have i heard any of them complain about the smell of the nabours. Or the nabours complain about them.
Noted scrutinized and relegated to the round file for future consideration Good try though
Yes, nimbyism is strong with many!
I'm sure compost has an entirely different smell
Its too bad the company cannot speak directly to their neighbors and ask if they want free composting for dealing with the trouble?
Even offer free processing or collection of their animal waste.
Overall this guy could benefit from large bins built and designed like smaller composting bins, mostly what he is doing is shoveling piles of stuff, if he had large modular sections of a bin to fill he could put a lid on it and keep some from being air dropped.
I'm wondering how their is a design for an at home bin for composts, but nothing designed for his compost company to use with the larger machinery
You cannot deny the smell that place but emanate, i can see the smell though the screen. I'm shocked it was allowed to be built near a community.
LOL 😆 typical NIMBY attitude, they voted for these green initiatives, it is obviously in farm and ranching area already, do you expect them to truck it up to the Yukon maybe?
ah the classic, “it’s not my authority don’t look at me!”
And yet, you will be the first to complain when someone or some authority exceeds their jurisdiction and affects you. You can’t have your cake and eat it.
@@Logic_Bum good to know that you think it’s reasonable to have falling meat parts from the sky! You should move there!
Everyone's entitled to peace full enjoyment of property in BC
No falcons guarding the piles 😮
If the properties were there first...enough said.
Great looking compost! 💪🏆
Theres a pet food factory near by.. you can smell it for miles away.. I can only imagine the smell of this place
There are many facilities like this across the world. There is probably something that was overlooked or they doing wrong to have this issues. It seems like the facility owner is working hard to address the issues. It takes time and capital, both in short supply.
Humanity always has a waste issue. It has to be in someone's backyard. At least we are not shipping it overseas anymore. I least I hope not.
Eat plants or get this
We have a stinking garbage dump in Cobble Hill BC as well more NDP inaction.
Reminds me of a song 🎼🎶🎶🎶meat chunks keep falling on my head 😂😂😂😂😂
I bet the mayor and city council dont live close by though so they dont really care
Interfering with the enjoyment of life.
It's offal.
Crazy!
Tortious interference class action suite people.
Pass the buck
He says " We have changed our dumping hours so the wildlife won't carry away meat products. " LOL I didn't know wildlife worked a 9 to 5 life cycle.
Good luck!
thats like saying the new paper mill stinks when the winds from the north. or the farm next door gets cattle and it stinks on a hot day. its just something your gonna have to learn to live with.
It’s more like living in a happy healthy neighborhood and having a biohazard waste facility open up next door. ‘Maybe you should have thought of this thirty years ago when you built, just learn to live with the smell.’ You would benefit greatly from pausing before making very little thought in your head public.
@@ferociousgustafson4040 whaaaaaaa cry me a river
dusgusting
vote harder
Csrd…joke.
the green economy...
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In a thousand years, this will be recounted as a sign from God. Locusts, frogs, hunks of rotted flesh.
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boo hoo you live on farmland expect some smells and work
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You have to burry all the freshly added stuff really well underneath a pretty thick layer of some of the older more well finished compost every time you want to add any new material to a compost pile and add a lot more of the dry low nitrogen bulking stuff like straw into the mix of newly added new material at the same time in order to keep all of the released liquid created by the decomposition process completely incorporated into it and enough air still retained in the pile to keep the decomposition microbes happy and working in the presence of oxygen and therefore the smell to a minimum, if it’s managed properly it shouldn’t smell very much at all and the microbes will keep break down the bad smelling chemical elements from the air continually as it filters upwards with the heat created by the decomposition up through the finished compost layers covering it and the smell should be comparable to rich earthy loamy soil by the time it reaches the top of the pile as steam, but it’s also pretty extremely easy to mess it up in multiple different ways and have the whole pile turn to anoxic reeking sludge and a river of putrid reeking liquid runoff which smells absolutely foul, the odiferous liquid smells like what sometimes drips from the backs of garbage trucks on trash day in the summertime when it’s gotten up to 30°C to 40°C for a whole week before trash day and it makes the whole neighbourhood reek just by dripping a few drops of liquid every meter in such a way that you can reliably track the garbage truck’s complete route for the next several days while blindfolded. I support well run municipal composting programs, I even compost a lot of stuff myself at home for use in my own garden as a fertilizer and soil amendment, but it needs to be done well by everyone or that horrible lingering smell ends up giving all composting everywhere a really bad reputation.
Looks like he's just dumping garbage, plastic bags aren't for compost
tell me you dont compost without telling me you dont compost
@@kefs some of us don't compost. Not sorry 😅😂
Get used to it people they're going to do nothing about it they're just going to send you around in circles get the community together and pray pray to God keep praying until the compost is gone then you know you've won remember God can do miracles
Global news rocks 😊,
There all news are very interesting
Move it to the desert drumheller.
No
@@thebrideoffrankenstein2415 The desert would be a good place for a compost middle eastern countrys and Australia should try to make more composts.
Yuk animal parts in compost 🤔
😂😂😂😂
It’s BC what’s the problem how sweet.
Sick