By Pepper Parr
December 13th, 2022
BURLINGTON, ON
UPDATE: The Hazardous Material (Asbestos) Abatement is included in the construction contract estimates included in the staff report. Timing will be at the beginning of the construction project along with demolition and removals.
Our tanks to the putz – the nom de plume created for a very smart Gazette reader who directed us to the 85 page report that was prepared for the Halton District School Board in November.
The Board of Education knew all along what they were buying and the members of Council knew as well.
The report is dated November 2022
They just didn’t want to tell the public and seemed loath to mouth the word asbestos.
We will find time later today to read through the 85 pages and learn just what there is in the way of asbestos and learn as well if there were plans in place to remove the stuff and what the cost is and who will be picking up that cost.
If this kind of stuff matters to you – the link is HERE:
It would be interesting to know if the asbestos was able to enter the working environment of those who occupied the building and, if so, if any of them contracted mesothelioma (see: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/mesothelioma/symptoms-causes/syc-20375022).
More to know about what COB needs to know about asbestos.
https://ohsguide.ihsa.ca/en/topic/asbestos.html
A brief review (preparing for a 1 pm delegation) leaves us with the feeling that Joe Gaeten, the red flag raiser with regard to the Regulation’s existence, use of the word “alarming” is a very low ball definition of what’s in store. Thanks Joe for the warning and thanks to “putz”. This community is very much indebted to you in the continuing effort to speak “truth to power” to steal a phrase from a very famous Attorney General.