The minister is stepping up the pressure on Environment Minister Rob Duhamel to end 20 months of delay on storing waste asbestos, saying that the situation has to be sorted out ‘as a matter of urgency’.
With stockpiles of the toxic waste growing by the week at the La Collette reclamation site, the Transport and Technical Services Minister says that urgent safety works to temporarily store the toxic asbestos in lined pits are being held up by the Planning department.
Deputy Lewis says there are 217 shipping containers of asbestos at La Collette – significantly more than the 40 he initially said were at the site.
Full story in Saturday’s JEP
