VICTORY! OlyWest on
IceJan. 15, 2007—A year of
public outrage has taken what could be the final toll on the proposal to
build a massive hog slaughter plant in St. Boniface. With two of the
OlyWest consortium's three partners out of the deal, today Manitoba's
Clean Environment Commission cancelled the critical public hearings
necessary for the remaining partner, hog producer Hytek, to obtain a
building license. Hytek will have to submit a new business plan; but
observers doubt it will obtain the financial backing it needs now that
citizens and activists have persuaded politicians that an expanding hog
industry is a political liability.
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"City dwellers must start thinking outside the perimeter
and realize that if that plant goes in, your cottage country will be one
big hog sewage lagoon. It is time for rural and urban citizens to speak
with one voice to keep Olywest out of Manitoba. The OlyOpp Alliance is
a good start." READ
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