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The Pickering
Nurses receive
layoff notices
Hospital on ‘road
to recovery’
NEWS/3
Transit hurt by
high gas prices
Deficit expected
by end of the year
NEWS/5
UOIT professor raises
some questions
By Reka Szekely
rszekely@durhamregion.com
DURHAM — Although it would cost more
up front, incinerating Durham’s garbage is
the best available long-term option, says the
Region’s business case for the project.
The business case, released Friday, com-
pares energy-from-waste (EFW) to using a
landfill site outside the region, somewhere in
Ontario. The EFW project comes out ahead,
according to the financial analysis by Deloitte
and Touche, because it removes the risk and
uncertainty surrounding fuel costs and the
shortage of landfill capacity in the province.
“What it will do is bring a solution to
the waste disposal situation on a long-term
basis,” said Jim Clapp, the Region’s commis-
sioner of finance.
And a UOIT professor said the report was
acceptable though he had a few questions.
The facility, which would be located in
Clarington near Courtice Road and Hwy. 401,
would cost $198 million to construct with
Durham Region picking up $155 million of
the tab and York Region paying the rest. The
facility, accepting 140,000 tonnes of waste
per year, would be state-of-the-art, meeting
or exceeding both Ontario’s guidelines and
European Union emission standards.
The annual operating and maintenance
cost of the facility would be $17 million with
Durham paying $13 million of that. Among
the operation costs is just less than $1 million
in property taxes; two-thirds of which would
go to the Municipality of Clarington, Mr.
Clapp said.
If federal gas tax funds are used to pay a
portion of the up-front costs, the Region’s
debt related to the facility would be paid off
in six years. That means by 2017 on, the cost
of incineration would be lower than using
landfill somewhere else, the report said. If
the gas tax is not used and the facility is fully
funded through debt financing, it would take
until after 2031 for the cost of incineration to
be lower than landfill.
Previously, the Region has used gas tax
dollars to fund its material recovery facility.
Durham will bank $47 million in gas tax dol-
lars from 2008 through to 2010, which could
be used as an up-front payment on the EFW
facility, Mr. Clapp said. Beyond that, the Re-
gion would budget $16.5 million per year for
the incinerator.
“The gas tax can only be used in certain
areas, waste is one of them,” Mr. Clapp said,
and added regional municipalities cannot
use it for roads.
Overall, the finance commissioner said
EFW would be a much more predictable
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Council wants
inquiry into
hospital bed move
By Keith Gilligan
kgilligan@durhamregion.com
AJAX — Councillors
have endorsed a call to
have the Ontario Human
Rights Commission inter-
vene in the closing of 20 in-
patient mental health beds
at the Ajax hospital.
Maurice Brenner, a com-
munity activist and for-
mer Pickering councillor,
had proposed seeking the
help of the commission in
stopping the Rouge Valley
Health System’s plan to
move the beds to Cente-
nary Hospital in Scarbor-
ough. Mr. Brenner said in
his correspondence to Ajax
council that it was a viola-
tion of the Ontario Human
Rights Code to move the
beds. The code defines a
‘mental disorder’ as a dis-
ability and it’s discrimina-
tory to deny someone a
service because of a dis-
ability.
Council, at its April 28
meeting, referred Mr.
Brenner’s letter to the
Town’s solicitor, seeking
advice on the matter.
The Town’s lawyer, Ron
Hawkshaw, said council
had the authority to pass
a motion based on Mr.
Brenner’s letter.
The council motion
called on the OHRC to
conduct a public inquiry
or review on the closing of
the in-patient beds.
“I expect it will,” said
Marty de Rond, the Town’s
clerk, when asked if ap-
proving the motion would
start the process at the
OHRC.
Having other munici-
palities in Durham Region
supporting the Town’s po-
sition will “be persuasive,”
Mr. de Rond said.
He didn’t know how long
it would be before a hear-
ing would be held, if one
was called.
“Unfortunately, I don’t
have an answer to that,
how long it will take, the
terms and how to define
them,” Mr. de Rond said.
The next Central East
Local Health Integration
Network meeting has been
pushed back a week, to
June 6 from May 30, Mayor
Steve Parish said.
The decision to move the
beds has been made and
the LHIN meeting “won’t
deal with the decision, but
deal with certain details
regarding the implementa-
tion,” he said.
Mayor Parish said he
spoke with LHIN head Fos-
ter Loucks and “they basi-
cally made the decision.”
option during the next 25
years. He compared it to
buying versus leasing.
“In this case we’re buy-
ing and providing ourselves
with a solution instead of
relying on a third party.”
The business case didn’t
include potential revenue
from district heating, how-
ever, the capability would be
built into the plant. It also
didn’t include savings to
the Region if the EFW plant
heated the nearby Courtice
Water Pollution Control
Plant or detail any benefits
should a carbon trading sys-
tem be implemented by the
federal government.
The business case
screened three other op-
tions: continuing to ship
waste to Michigan, using the
Brock Township landfill, and
stabilized landfill. Michigan
is set to close its border to
Ontario garbage in 2010, the
Brock Township landfill does
not have enough capacity to
meet the Region’s long-term
needs, and building a sta-
bilized landfill would take
too long as it would involve
selecting and purchasing a
site and going through a full
environmental assessment.
Ibrahim Dincer, a UOIT
professor and engineer spe-
cializing in sustainable en-
ergy systems, said the report
looked fine overall.
However, while the emis-
sions limits in the report are
acceptable, Dr. Dincer would
have liked to have seen what
specific emission control-
ling technologies would be
used.
“There are certain tech-
nologies, quite costly, in
terms of emission control
that are very effective,” he
said.
As well, he would have
liked to have seen a life-
cycle assessment for the
EFW facility to see projected
costs over the plant’s whole
life compared to landfill.
As well, Dr. Dincer raised
concerns about sorting out
hazardous materials, such as
batteries, which could affect
emissions from the plant, He
said currently many people
put such material in the
garbage and it needs to be
sorted out before it gets to
the plant.
“At the final point, sorting
out is very difficult and very
costly,” he said.
The Region considers the
approval of the business
case a milestone for the
EFW project. It goes to com-
mittee next Wednesday and
to council May 28.
“If it’s not approved, we
have to stop and reconsid-
er what we’re going to do,”
Regional Chairman Roger
Anderson has said, add-
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five points in the process
where the process could be
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Ajax calls on rights commission to intervene in hospital decision
Rouge Valley
Hospital System
begins ‘road to
recovery’
By Kristen Calis
kcalis@durhamregion.com
AJAX — Nurses at the
Rouge Valley Hospital Sys-
tem received two things
from the hospital during
Nurses Week: stress balls
and layoff notices.
“That is the most despi-
cable, disgusting thing that
they could do in the mid-
dle of Nurses Week,” said
Carol Oates, Ontario Nurs-
es Association bargaining
unit president for RVHS.
Union representatives
were informed Thursday of
layoff notices for 47 nurses
between the two hospitals
(40 full-time and seven
part-time).
RVHS is faced with a
long-term debt and capi-
tal deficiencies of $78 mil-
lion, and in order to relieve
the debt, the hospital an-
nounced plans to cut 220
jobs (60 at Rouge Valley
Ajax and Pickering hos-
pital) and consolidate the
mental health unit by mov-
ing RVAP’s mental health
beds to Rouge Valley Cen-
tenary hospital in Scarbor-
ough. The announcement
came after the Ontario
Public Service Employees
Union withdrew its motion
for an injunction when the
hospital agreed to keep all
mental health services at
RVAP until after a judicial
review is complete.
Rik Ganderton, RVHS
president and CEO, ex-
plained of the 40 posi-
tions cut, 13 are full-time
and seven are part-time
at RVAP. Twelve full-time
and six part-time registered
nurses will leave RVAP’s
mental health unit.
“I’ll tell you (the men-
tal health nurses) are very
angry,” Ms. Oates said.
Mr. Ganderton noted the
mental health jobs will be
fully replaced at Centenary
and “we want every mental
health nurse to apply for
those jobs.”
Voluntary packages, early
retirement, attrition and va-
cancies will be offered, but
Ms. Oates said only about
half a dozen would qualify
for a retirement package.
She’s also worried about
maintaining the same qual-
ity of care with the chang-
es.
“They expect us to do the
same volume with less beds
and less nurses,” she said.
Mr. Ganderton explained,
in an interview, RVHS will
maintain the same ser-
vice volumes. The RVHS
has been working with
too many resources than
it needs to deliver proper
care, which was outlined in
a December peer review re-
port, he said. Reducing the
resources will help RVHS
benchmark itself against
other hospitals, he said.
“We’ve actually signed
the accountability agree-
ment with the LHIN (Cen-
tral East Local Health In-
tegration Network), which
has those volume commit-
ments,” he said.
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Hospital layoffs announced during Nurses Week
DURHAM — After only
two years on the job, Leah
Myers has resigned as Dur-
ham College president.
In a press re-
lease issued late
Friday afternoon,
the college’s board
of governors an-
nounced Ms.
Myers resignation,
as well as the ap-
pointment of Don
Lovisa as interim
president effective
immediately.
“The Board
would like to take
this opportunity to thank
outgoing president Leah
Myers for her work over the
past two years,” said Phil-
lip ‘Rocky’ Simmons, the
board’s chairman.
“During her tenure at the
college, Leah spearheaded
a new five-year strategic
plan and revised and re-
freshed the college’s opera-
tional and administrative
policies. We wish Leah suc-
cess in her future
endeavours.” Mr.
Lovisa, vice-pres-
ident, academic,
joined Durham
College in Au-
gust 2007. He was
previously dean
of the School of
Business, Hospi-
tality and Media
Arts at Confed-
eration College in
Thunder Bay, and
holds a master’s degree
in international manage-
ment, a bachelor’s degree
in sociology, and a diploma
in adult education.
He began his career 21
years ago as a small busi-
ness advisor for Confed-
eration College.
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