The self-sufficient, freedom loving Alberta of our national political history is just that: history.
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“He stressed that Chestermere Utilities will focus on educating residents about the new rules before they ticket or fine people for putting paper in the trash.”
Why do they hate the people who work in the lumber and pulp/paper industry so much?
I predict that backyard fire-pit sales are going to surge in Chestermere.
Garbage Fascists 🙂
They’re everywhere. If by chance we don’t put out ‘organics’ in their proper container for an extended period of time it results in a phone call from the Region. They’ve noticed.
in Vancouver we have 4 receptacles now:
Black garbage bin
Blue recycle
Green lid box for garden refuse and food scraps …. and recently,
Grey box for glass jars. (However the lids go in the blue box).
I said it was regimentation.
My wife corrected me: O B E D I E N C E.
How ridiculous! Then again, I wonder if the people who came up with that numbskull idea really have any idea on how to encourage people to recycle.
About 25 years ago, the city of Edmonton set up a number of local recycling depots in places where people tend to go to do business, namely shopping centres. As it turned out, it proved to be quite popular. I live right beside one of the biggest ones in the city and I’ve often seen people stop there, drop the recyclable materials in the various bins, and then park their vehicles and go shopping.
About 2 or 3 km away from where I live, the city has a major recycling centre. People bring stuff that can’t be dropped off at the local depots and drop it off there. Each time I’ve gone to that location, there’s a lineup of vehicles and I often have to wait at least 10 minutes to get in, and that’s soon after the gate is opened in the morning.
I haven’t seen or heard of anyone complaining about that. People gladly get rid of that stuff and it’s done in a way that’s quite convenient for them.
Is the pickup automated? I’ve contemplated bolting a brick to the inside of the can (while it’s new and pristine) in case the truck is measuring gross weight only to determine ‘use’.
Also, if it’s $100 per tonne to dump garbage how much cheaper is recycling and composting to warrant 2 extra trucks come by?
I’d send a clear bag full of snotty Kleenex to the mayor and council as a sign of protest. I can think of another product that will also have to be set out in clear plastic. A certain product that plumbers and municipalities have been warning people not to flush down the toilet…..
There’s an oil leak at city hall. If they don’t fix it the engine’s going to blow up.
“Also, if it’s $100 per tonne to dump garbage how much cheaper is recycling and composting to warrant 2 extra trucks come by?”
Yes, another question is whether this is either revenue neutral (i.e. taxes don’t go up to cover it) or really is cheaper.
Regarding the latter, if there is a cost saving, residents will surely see their municipal taxes reduced, right?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
(I crack myself up!)
Just wait until the recycling workers, curbside collectors included, get unionized.
Then we’ll see how cheap it all is.
Lemme tell you somethin’.
Your agent lives in Chestermere, it is just immediately west of Calgary @3 km from city limits to city limits. It will be swallowed by the big city within 10-15 years.
The mayor is such that nobody really knows who she is except those that want to get on the gravy train. She is mayor be default, nobody else wants to do it.
It is relatively better off crowd that lives here, most everybody works in Calgary, in the oil business up north or is retired.
Curiously, there is a food bank here. Don’t know why, though as is often said, if you build it they will come.
There unto it is that the mayor and council thinking that they can suck the taxpayer freely much more so than just about any non-jurisdiction in the whole country.
If you are living on pension it really sucks.
There were two petitions taken about a month ago to look into the curious schemes that the mayor and council come up with, endlessly rising taxes. If you have nothing to do with yourself, the info on the petition is here: http://www.theanchor.ca/2016/petition-arrives-in-edmonton/ it is a story from the local newspaper.
Seems that the mayor and the council, just cruise around to see where to blow some money.
Bear one thing in mind, the political low life is trying to outdo one another to see who come up with more new schemes to collect brownie points from the ruling class.
They rammed it down our throats here in Halifax last year.
So my garbage collector gets to stare at a clear bag full of diapers every two weeks. I feel a little sorry for him; he never asked for that.
I loathe the policy, but Halifax is pretty loony left these days. Can’t do much about that.
Very good.
Gonna send it to the mayor & council
“The self-sufficient, freedom loving Alberta of our national political history is just that: history.”
Yep. It all started going downhill when all them tough-on-the-outside Alberta cowboys went to see Brokeback Mountain, and discovered their sensitive, caring, inner selves.
I recycle everything into the big black wheelie bin. What the city does with it after that is up to them.
“By introducing recycling and compost service, which won’t cost residents any more money, Macintosh estimates Chestermere could reduce the amount of garbage it takes to the landfill by about 75 per cent.”
Bwahahahahahahha….oh…my gut hurts. I’m curious to see just how much it “won’t cost residents any more money” after the recycling pick-up fees kick in. And of course the clincher…”could”. Only once they blow millions and raise taxes by house and land levies by 10-15% will they achieve, maybe, a reduction of about 5%.
Wasn’t this whole recycling thing supposed to be voluntary?
Yep, keep telling yourself that you’re free.
recycling is a bloody waste of time, money, and any other thing you can think of. burn the crap in a high temp incinerator, generate electricity with the heat and be done with it. recycling does not cover the cost of the effort. it also creates segregated garbage that gets sent to land fills on pallets.
The town of Chestermere is under a lot of fire for other reasons beside this nonsense. And the truth is that with commodity prices as low as they are, recycling makes absolutely NO economic sense (with the possible exception of aluminum cans)……
And it really isn’t that Alberta has lost it’s mind….it is that Albertans were fast asleep while their MUNICIPAL governments were taken over by NDP and Liberal hacks. People need to be much more focused on their local governments because they are the easiest ones for the left to take over and by the time they have grown the public sector to a critical mass, the game is over because the unions will support those “councillors” who support the unions.
I have been away for about six weeks and it is good to see that the rush to bottom by our socialist overlords has not abated. I have asked this many times, tell me what a Canadian can do that the government does not have it’s ugly thumb print on? the correct answer is, absolutely nothing.
Aren’t those “paper products”, albeit with “bodily fluids” attached? Green bin comes our way, that’s where the used kitty litter will go. We already compost and have for years.
It’s my opinion that those pushing these plans wouldn’t know real thrift and old-fashioned recycling if they saw it. Also, would like to know where all the sorted recyclables REALLY go.
ah now, lets see, when recycling plastic, you have 3 grades, white, clear, and colored. Clear is gobbled up by producers of vapor barrier (6 mil), whites for kitchen catcher and shopping bags. Coloured is good for garbage bags, and just about nothing else, sooooo, these idiots are creating a problem while creating a problem. Your government hard at work for you:-)))
Alberta is dying as we knew it would at the hands of the socialist vultures
Alberta’s big change came with the election of Lougheed. The progressives took over and the self-sufficient freedom loving cowboys who shaped the province were replaced by the side saddle, mare riding, broke back mountain slicks that we have today.
Alberta has not been the conservative bastion of the country for decades. There is no conservative bastion in Canada.
Dear retards at the Chestermere council,
I have two words for you: “dog $hit”. You want it in clear bags too? Perhaps delivered for inspection directly to the city hall front lawn? Can we also have the home addresses of the city council members? I am sure they have neighbors with dogs too…
Audi commercial from the Superbowl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVPyHrPZbVM
We thought that was pretty funny in 2010. Not so much, now that it’s becoming real life. By the way, Audi is owned by Volkswagen, I seem to recall they’ve run into a spot of trouble recently over emissions from their TDi diesel engines.
LMAO – I live in Chestermere… well actually on an acreage just outside of town (ahem… ‘city’). I pay Chestermere property taxes but do not get garbage pick-up or recycling. I am actually glad because I throw it all in the same bin and take it all to the Calgary dump once a month. No washing, sorting etc. it is the best part of the trip as a throw all the cardboard, glass and tin cans out thinking about the other fools that spent all that time to appease their own green guilt.
“He stressed that Chestermere Utilities will focus on educating residents about the new rules before they ticket or fine people for putting paper in the trash.”
Why do they hate the people who work in the lumber and pulp/paper industry so much?
I predict that backyard fire-pit sales are going to surge in Chestermere.
Garbage Fascists 🙂
They’re everywhere. If by chance we don’t put out ‘organics’ in their proper container for an extended period of time it results in a phone call from the Region. They’ve noticed.
in Vancouver we have 4 receptacles now:
Black garbage bin
Blue recycle
Green lid box for garden refuse and food scraps …. and recently,
Grey box for glass jars. (However the lids go in the blue box).
I said it was regimentation.
My wife corrected me: O B E D I E N C E.
How ridiculous! Then again, I wonder if the people who came up with that numbskull idea really have any idea on how to encourage people to recycle.
About 25 years ago, the city of Edmonton set up a number of local recycling depots in places where people tend to go to do business, namely shopping centres. As it turned out, it proved to be quite popular. I live right beside one of the biggest ones in the city and I’ve often seen people stop there, drop the recyclable materials in the various bins, and then park their vehicles and go shopping.
About 2 or 3 km away from where I live, the city has a major recycling centre. People bring stuff that can’t be dropped off at the local depots and drop it off there. Each time I’ve gone to that location, there’s a lineup of vehicles and I often have to wait at least 10 minutes to get in, and that’s soon after the gate is opened in the morning.
I haven’t seen or heard of anyone complaining about that. People gladly get rid of that stuff and it’s done in a way that’s quite convenient for them.
Looks like the people of Chestermere are organizing against the nanny statists at city hall:
https://www.change.org/p/the-city-of-chestermere-ab-canada-change-the-clear-bag-rule-for-the-new-garbage-program/c
It ain’t over ’til it’s over.
I’d to see the mayor and all the alderman that voted for this clear bag initiative get turfed next election.
Is the pickup automated? I’ve contemplated bolting a brick to the inside of the can (while it’s new and pristine) in case the truck is measuring gross weight only to determine ‘use’.
Also, if it’s $100 per tonne to dump garbage how much cheaper is recycling and composting to warrant 2 extra trucks come by?
I’d send a clear bag full of snotty Kleenex to the mayor and council as a sign of protest. I can think of another product that will also have to be set out in clear plastic. A certain product that plumbers and municipalities have been warning people not to flush down the toilet…..
There’s an oil leak at city hall. If they don’t fix it the engine’s going to blow up.
“Also, if it’s $100 per tonne to dump garbage how much cheaper is recycling and composting to warrant 2 extra trucks come by?”
Yes, another question is whether this is either revenue neutral (i.e. taxes don’t go up to cover it) or really is cheaper.
Regarding the latter, if there is a cost saving, residents will surely see their municipal taxes reduced, right?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
(I crack myself up!)
Just wait until the recycling workers, curbside collectors included, get unionized.
Then we’ll see how cheap it all is.
Lemme tell you somethin’.
Your agent lives in Chestermere, it is just immediately west of Calgary @3 km from city limits to city limits. It will be swallowed by the big city within 10-15 years.
The mayor is such that nobody really knows who she is except those that want to get on the gravy train. She is mayor be default, nobody else wants to do it.
It is relatively better off crowd that lives here, most everybody works in Calgary, in the oil business up north or is retired.
Curiously, there is a food bank here. Don’t know why, though as is often said, if you build it they will come.
There unto it is that the mayor and council thinking that they can suck the taxpayer freely much more so than just about any non-jurisdiction in the whole country.
If you are living on pension it really sucks.
There were two petitions taken about a month ago to look into the curious schemes that the mayor and council come up with, endlessly rising taxes. If you have nothing to do with yourself, the info on the petition is here: http://www.theanchor.ca/2016/petition-arrives-in-edmonton/ it is a story from the local newspaper.
Seems that the mayor and the council, just cruise around to see where to blow some money.
Bear one thing in mind, the political low life is trying to outdo one another to see who come up with more new schemes to collect brownie points from the ruling class.
This is relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC3CZBDz7Wg
They rammed it down our throats here in Halifax last year.
So my garbage collector gets to stare at a clear bag full of diapers every two weeks. I feel a little sorry for him; he never asked for that.
I loathe the policy, but Halifax is pretty loony left these days. Can’t do much about that.
Very good.
Gonna send it to the mayor & council
“The self-sufficient, freedom loving Alberta of our national political history is just that: history.”
Yep. It all started going downhill when all them tough-on-the-outside Alberta cowboys went to see Brokeback Mountain, and discovered their sensitive, caring, inner selves.
I recycle everything into the big black wheelie bin. What the city does with it after that is up to them.
“By introducing recycling and compost service, which won’t cost residents any more money, Macintosh estimates Chestermere could reduce the amount of garbage it takes to the landfill by about 75 per cent.”
Bwahahahahahahha….oh…my gut hurts. I’m curious to see just how much it “won’t cost residents any more money” after the recycling pick-up fees kick in. And of course the clincher…”could”. Only once they blow millions and raise taxes by house and land levies by 10-15% will they achieve, maybe, a reduction of about 5%.
Wasn’t this whole recycling thing supposed to be voluntary?
Yep, keep telling yourself that you’re free.
recycling is a bloody waste of time, money, and any other thing you can think of. burn the crap in a high temp incinerator, generate electricity with the heat and be done with it. recycling does not cover the cost of the effort. it also creates segregated garbage that gets sent to land fills on pallets.
The town of Chestermere is under a lot of fire for other reasons beside this nonsense. And the truth is that with commodity prices as low as they are, recycling makes absolutely NO economic sense (with the possible exception of aluminum cans)……
And it really isn’t that Alberta has lost it’s mind….it is that Albertans were fast asleep while their MUNICIPAL governments were taken over by NDP and Liberal hacks. People need to be much more focused on their local governments because they are the easiest ones for the left to take over and by the time they have grown the public sector to a critical mass, the game is over because the unions will support those “councillors” who support the unions.
I have been away for about six weeks and it is good to see that the rush to bottom by our socialist overlords has not abated. I have asked this many times, tell me what a Canadian can do that the government does not have it’s ugly thumb print on? the correct answer is, absolutely nothing.
Aren’t those “paper products”, albeit with “bodily fluids” attached? Green bin comes our way, that’s where the used kitty litter will go. We already compost and have for years.
It’s my opinion that those pushing these plans wouldn’t know real thrift and old-fashioned recycling if they saw it. Also, would like to know where all the sorted recyclables REALLY go.
ah now, lets see, when recycling plastic, you have 3 grades, white, clear, and colored. Clear is gobbled up by producers of vapor barrier (6 mil), whites for kitchen catcher and shopping bags. Coloured is good for garbage bags, and just about nothing else, sooooo, these idiots are creating a problem while creating a problem. Your government hard at work for you:-)))
Alberta is dying as we knew it would at the hands of the socialist vultures
Alberta’s big change came with the election of Lougheed. The progressives took over and the self-sufficient freedom loving cowboys who shaped the province were replaced by the side saddle, mare riding, broke back mountain slicks that we have today.
Alberta has not been the conservative bastion of the country for decades. There is no conservative bastion in Canada.
Read a transcript of some of this interview …Trudeau dances around the question about Canadian oil vs Saudi oil.
http://www.inews880.com/syn/110/96698/96698
Dear retards at the Chestermere council,
I have two words for you: “dog $hit”. You want it in clear bags too? Perhaps delivered for inspection directly to the city hall front lawn? Can we also have the home addresses of the city council members? I am sure they have neighbors with dogs too…
Audi commercial from the Superbowl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVPyHrPZbVM
We thought that was pretty funny in 2010. Not so much, now that it’s becoming real life. By the way, Audi is owned by Volkswagen, I seem to recall they’ve run into a spot of trouble recently over emissions from their TDi diesel engines.
LMAO – I live in Chestermere… well actually on an acreage just outside of town (ahem… ‘city’). I pay Chestermere property taxes but do not get garbage pick-up or recycling. I am actually glad because I throw it all in the same bin and take it all to the Calgary dump once a month. No washing, sorting etc. it is the best part of the trip as a throw all the cardboard, glass and tin cans out thinking about the other fools that spent all that time to appease their own green guilt.