Petition 277: Release of compactor garbage truck leachate on city

October 8, 2009

I am sending this information to you so you can understand one of the major causes of illness in North American cities and towns. In1938 we began to use compactor garbage trucks in North America. The problem is:

*  These compactor garbage trucks were not designed to contain fluid, although the continual compacting of the garbage separates the garbage fluid/garbage leachate from the solid garbage.

*  These compactor garbage trucks have been allowed to continue to leak/drain this garbage leachate all over the  streets and lanes along their routes through our communities.

*   As fluid is not cost effective and many drivers get paid bonuses when they are cost effective, they release the garbage fluids/garbage leachate. Some drivers leave their plugs open and continually release the fluids, some drivers sit over a sewer drain, press down their load with the plug open and release the garbage leachate in that manner. This release of garbage leachate on to city streets and lanes in either case subsequently  drains garbage leachate into the sewers.

*  This is what occurs in wet weather but when the weather is dry, the garbage leachate is first, dried in the sun and when driven over the dust and all of the fine particulate matter containing the garbage leachate gets mixed  up with all of the other fine particulate matter and becomes part of the smoggy air we all breathe. This smoggy air  comes into our homes and becomes part of the dust that covers everything and destroys the overall air quality in our homes.

*   I cannot remember how many times I have seen babies on the bus playing with the wheels of their strollers. 

The following link will allow you to see the release of  garbage leachate on one corner from October 2008 to April 2009 as the children travelled to school. November 2008 is when I began to film the spills during this section of my research so the issue becomes much more visible from November 2008 in the research.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bharbara/collections/72157622539601206/

The above link also contains the answers I received to the questions presented to the Canadian Minister of the Environment, in the following petition to the Environmental Sustainability section of the Canadian Auditor Generals Office.  This is Petition #277 and although quite lengthy does describe what is occurring here both in my words and in the words of the professional individuals that have responsibility here. 

I realize that you must be a very busy person so if you can only read what these professional individuals have written you will get a very good understanding of what is occurring. I have changed the font to bold and blue so you will be better able to access these comments. 

Date:        May 5, 2009

Name:      Bharbara Gudmundson

Petition for Office of the Auditor General of Canada and Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development  

I hereby submit this petition to the Auditor General of Canada under section 22 of the Auditor General Act.

Title of Petition: The release of garbage leachate from compactor garbage trucks in Canadian cities and towns.  

In 1999, the Federal Government was first contacted by myself and made aware the release of garbage leachate was occurring in our communities and have been continually reminded since then.The Federal Government is responsible when toxic substances are repeatedly drained into the sewer systems that flow directly into our creeks, rivers, ponds, lakes and oceans. 

In this petition I have quoted from many of the letters both sent and received and in each case I have added the date of the letter. This first link has the documentation from 1991 to 2003. 

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bharbara/collections/72157603541114578/ 

This second link covers garbage leachate spills that occurred five feet from a sewer from October 2008 to December, 2008.   

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bharbara/collections/72157609613173017/  

The third link has the letters to and from Federal Ministers that have been referred to in this petition. If you go to the flickr set using this link you will be able to access the letter being quoted by the date of the letter. 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/organize/?start_tab=one_set72157617050488932&mode=together

The fourth link shows spills from October 2008 to March 2009

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kedPvxNUbw  

On December 26, 1999, I sent a letter to then Minister of Health outlining the issue in a similar manner. 

On May 17, 2000, Allan Rock's answer was that we should make better use of composting to limit the amount of household food waste. There was no mention of the health implications of the repeated release of all of the chemical combinations. There was no mention of the cumulative effects of the combinations of chemicals repeatedly released all over our communities.  No mention of the quality of the air that we were creating by allowing the dried garbage leachate to remain on the streets, getting mixed up with all of the fine particulate matter that is in the smoggy air we are all breathing.

 

On May 26 and 29, 2000, I sent a letter to all Ministers of the Environment in Canada, both Federal and Provincial. I outlined the basic problems we are experiencing with the release of garbage leachate from compactor garbage trucks. 

On July 31, 2000, an answer was sent from David Anderson, Federal Minister of the Environment. The only thing done by the Minister of the Environment was to speak to the waste removal company in the photograph I had sent and suggest to me that in the future I should contact them directly.

On September 24, 2000, I sent a letter to the Federal Minister of Fisheries that basically stated the same things as were in the letter to the Minister of the Environment with an addition relevant to his Ministry.

On December 20, 2000, Fisheries and Oceans Minister, Herb Dhaliwal sent me a letter knowing that I had been addressing the issue of garbage leachate being repeatedly released on Vancouver streets for nine years. He also knew that the garbage leachate had repeatedly been flushed into the sewer system that flows directly into the Vancouver Harbor, False Creek and the Fraser River. 

On November 18, 2002, David Anderson, Federal Minister of the Environment  sent a letter saying he could not help. Again I was referred to the Municipal and Provincial Governments. 

On December 22, 2003, I was sent a note from Susan Fletcher, Assistant Deputy Minister of Health, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch regarding the letter I sent to former Minister of Health and all other Canadian Members of Parliament.

       I have produced flickr site, that shows continual, repeated release of garbage leachate within five feet of a sewer drain. The sewer drain in these films flows directly into the Vancouver Harbor. Federal Ministers have known for many years that the outflow, where Clark Drive meets the Harbor, has been killing fish. A group called the Georgia Straight Alliance attempted to hold many departments responsible for the killing of these fish. Since 1991 I have been attempting to stop the release of garbage leachate on to the streets of Vancouver, while living in the same area where the fish are dying around the Clark Drive outflow. The link to my flickr collection titled ‘We’ve Been Poisoned’ provided in this petition will show that you have known about the systematic release of garbage leachate all over the community adjacent to the Clark Drive outflow and have done your best to relieve yourselves of the responsibility rather than find a solution to protect the environment and all that live in it. 

      These films and documented incidents have been continually brought to the attention of the municipal Council for the last six months and to date there has been no answer to my mail. To be fair there is a new Municipal Council and although they have not answered any of the mail I’ve sent since they began in Council, January 2009, I have no knowledge of whether any action has occurred resulting from the documentation brought before them. The only indication I have that there is nothing being done is that on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 there was the same company and the same truck, spreading garbage leachate along it's route. So far I have sent e-mails from October 2008 to March 2009 with no answer. This is the area of government, I am told by the Federal Ministers, that’s responsible for ensuring that the release of garbage leachate stops. While the Federal Government continues to refer this issue to the Municipal and Provincial governments, the rain, melting snow and ice continue to flush the streets directing all of the spilled garbage leachate into the sewers where it travels directly into the creeks, ponds, lakes, rivers and oceans.

      When you take an orange and squeeze out all of the juice, you wind up with a fluid with all of the same contents that are in the orange. The same thing happens when you continually compact garbage. You wind up with a fluid with all of the same substances that are in the garbage being compacted. All of the same combinations of bacteria, viruses, parasites, mold, fungi and chemicals that are in the garbage are in the resulting garbage leachate. This garbage leachate has continually been spread all over the communities that use compactor garbage trucks to collect garbage. 

      We contain leachate in our landfills with very strong, thick liners that can cost almost a million dollars an acre. This is done to protect the surrounding area from the garbage leachate in a landfill. This is done so the environment is not subjected to the toxic substances in the garbage leachate. This is done to ensure that the mixtures of chemicals that should not be mixed remain contained. It’s done so the many different viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi and mould do not enter into the landfills surrounding area. This is done to ensure that the garbage leachate does not flow into the waterways. 

     The following notes are comments made by various individuals that have responsibilities here, to give some focus to what is actually occurring. Let’s look at the explanation given by Jim Bradley, 2002 President of the Waste Haulers Association, Sean Lane of the Vancouver Police Commercial Vehicle Unit, Kevin Skett of BFI, Vancouver Councillor Fred Bass and myself to Langara College student David Loopstra for an article he wrote in the November 7, 2002 Voice newspaper. 

“Compactor seals puncture,” he says “and they are expensive to replace.” But there’s a catch. Bradley says, “ most trucks operating in Vancouver weren’t made for it’s wet climate and hilly terrain. They’re built in two dry, flat places: Hamilton, Ontario and Medicine Hat, Alberta. 

That means in extremely wet conditions, it’s possible for liquids to rise above the seals-even seals that haven’t punctures- and overflow out the compactor. Especially when trucks operate on steep roads. These trucks are a dry-goods hauler,” says Bradley from work. “They weren’t designed to carry or contain liquids.” 

“Also,” says Bradley, “drivers can’t determine how much of their load is fluid. There is no way to measure or read what’s on your truck,” he says, “So {climbing a hill} you get committed, then you find out it’s leaking.” And that, alleges Gudmundson “is a problem many drivers, especially those who receive bonuses for fitting more solid trash in their trucks, are reluctant to address.” But Bradley, who also owns the waste management Superior Disposal, says “his employees are paid by the hour. There’s no incentive for my guys to overload their trucks,” he says. 

“BFI, however, Vancouver’s second largest waste removal company pay hourly but also reward their drivers for emptying more dumpsters. “{For drivers} that’s the real cash,” says operations manager Kevin Skett. “Most of our drivers average about 150 containers a day. That’s about 330 bucks [in bonuses].” But Skett says “his drivers are hesitant to overload because overweight trucks pay big fines. We don’t go overweight,” he says, adding that, “rainwater in dumpsters is a huge cost to the company.”

“And that,” acknowledged Lane, the police (commercial)vehicle unit, “is ironic. Overweight fines are far more costly than penalties for drivers who lighten loads by leaking fluid,” he says. “Currently, no city bylaw specifically prohibits waste removal trucks from dumping garbage leachate on the streets. The only deterrent,”  says Sean Lane, head of the Vancouver Police Commercial Vehicle Unit, “are two general bylaws that, in a roundabout way, can be used to charge drivers and companies operating leaking trucks. A leaking truck is an insecure load, he says. There’s a hundred dollar fine for that. The other bylaw,” he says, “prohibits anyone from discharging liquid into a sewer. But of course,” says Lane, “ if there’s no sewer  near the leaking truck it’s hard to lay charges.” Still Lane says “his unit has caught about 20 compactor drivers with insecure loads in the past year. We catch ‘em,” he says, on a quick break from work. “If  Gudmundson complains and we hustle ‘em down, we’ll look for an insecure load. We’re pretty tight on that.” But its not easy. His unit of four officers, whose duties go far beyond simply enforcing proper waste management, is responsible for the entire city. “ That’s not too many guys, “he says. “Especially when eight or nine companies with about 15 trucks each operate in Vancouver.”

At city hall, COPE councillor Dr. Fred Bass has been targeted by Bharbara’s letters for over three years. After all, City Council has the authority to impose stricter bylaws. “ I just thought he would care about the health of his City,” says Gudmundson. But Dr. Bass, who is also certified by the American Board of Preventative Medicine suggests  a little garbage leachate on the streets could actually be beneficial to Vancouverites. “ It boosts their immune systems,” he says. “ There’s always going to be bacteria outside our bodies that, given our natural defenses might be a part of the environment that keeps us healthy,” he says on the phone from his office,” that’s why,” he says, “he hasn’t pushed for stricter regulations and higher fines for companies and drivers responsible for leaked fluids. I think ti’s messy, I think it’s smelly, I think it shouldn’t happen, he says. However we live with bacteria all around us and when we cut off that exposure we become even more susceptible in the future.” 

      Let’s look a bit further at the actions of the Vancouver Municipal Government and staff in addressing the issue of the release of garbage leachate on to the streets of Vancouver as outlined in the message sent to Vancouver Environmental Protection Department on November 13, 2003.  The three letters dated November 13, 14 and 16, 2003 show the release of toxic substances on to the streets and lanes and the statements made in the November 14, 2003 letter show that our city workers also have been continually releasing garbage leachate during our very long rainy season in Vancouver. 

-----Original Message-----

From: BharbaraGudmundson [...]

Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:10 PM

To:  doug_roberts@city.vancouver.bc.ca

Cc:  dave_rudberg@city.vancouver.bc.ca

Subject: City garbage truck spilled this mess at the corner of.....!

Approximately 11:45 AM today the City of Vancouver garbage truck for

this area travelled West on ... leaking garbage leachate/hopper juice onto 

the street as he drove along. .....I was working outside and saw the truck  

leaking and raised my voice to let him know that he had a leak.

The driver leaned out of the truck and asked if he was leaking, I raised

my voice again and let him know he was leaking. The man on the back of

the truck told the driver to just go and that's what they did. There is a

group of city workers that are laying down a new water

pipeline along ... As the pictures I am sending in the

attachment show this spill happened right in front of three city

workers. I went and spoke to a man called Brian Birch, the supervisor of

the workers on site. I spoke with each person about what they saw and

showed them where the spill had occurred. I told them when that stuff

dries it becomes part of the fine particulate matter that is in the air.

I told them that stuff is very bad for their health.

On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 11:44 AM, Sanitation Ops wrote:

Ms. Gudmunson:

We have investigated your complaint and report back to you as follows.

The Sanitation Branch of Engineering Services has been trying diligently to

avoid any such spills especially in the vicinity of the complainant. To help

minimze this issue, we have had the plugs in place at the bottom of the

packer hoppers during the warmer months. For the rainy season ( ie now ) we

have had the plugs removed so that large 'basins' of water do not

accummulate at the rear of the packers in the hoppers. Such basins of water

would create a worse situation in terms of both spillages onto City streets(

especially on packer turns ) and splashing employees standing at the rear of

the packer.

In the case of your issue on Nov. 13, 2003, in the vicinity of your

residence,.... we have also tried to service that area with an empty, or near 

empty packer, to absolutely minimize on leachate type spillages. To our credit, 

there appears to have been a good result based upon the non complant history 

here for many months until yesterday. Based upon the digital photographs you 

forwarded, the reported spill does not appear to be substantial.

One of our employees on the subject garbage truck yesterday also spoke to

you just after the issue took place. He advised that it was mostly water

that spilled out as he had just dumped 2 cans which were partially filled

with water. It was reported that you appreciated the feedback from our

employee.

Our Branch is reviewing it's plans here with the crew and the Foremen to try

our best to ensure that no more spillages occur. This type of an issue is

unfortunately not a pure science as you understand, so we still are looking

towards the technology itself to improve over time with a view towards

ultimate no spillage whatsoever. Automated garbage and yard trimmings

collections, which are going to be considered by City Council early next

year, should help in that regard ( eg. the large new 'cans' would have a

much more secure top, cutting back considerably on rain water seepage into

residents cans holding the garbage and yard trimmings ).

Yours truly

Sanitation Operations Branch

Engineering Services Department

City of Vancouver

On Sunday, November 16, 2003, at 01:25 PM, BharbaraGudmundson wrote:

TO THE SANITATION OPERATIONS BRANCH OF THE ENGINEERING SERVICES DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF VANCOUVER.

As stated in the letter  I sent to Doug Roberts and Dave Rudberg,  the last time I saw a Vancouver City garbage truck leaking onto city streets was a few years ago.  I must say from what I have 'seen' prior to the spill on Nov. 13/03 the people working in the city truck have attempted to keep a leak free vehicle. This is the reason I did not call the Commercial Vehicle Unit of the Vancouver Police Department.

I am concerned when I hear you say that the garbage truck driver "has been trying diligently to avoid any such spills especially in the vicinity of the complainant."  I had believed the Vancouver city garbage truck employees were avoiding any such spill in any area of the City of Vancouver.

You stated in your letter dated November 14, 2003 that, " one of the employees on the subject garbage truck spoke to me just after the issue took place." This did not happen. After I brought  the leak to the attention of the employees on the truck  the employee on the back of the truck told the driver to just drive and that is what he did.  How could I have appreciated the feedback from your employee on the truck when I never spoke to either of them.

I did however speak to Brian Birch the supervisor of the city employees in the pictures I sent. These employees were gone from the ... site before I finished taking the pictures, as the last photo showed. That spill of garbage leachate  was spread everywhere on the corner by vehicles driving through it. People and their pets walked and rode their bicycles through it. Everywhere that truck traveled was affected by this leak. Each time this truck stopped a small puddle of garbage leachate was left like the one in the pictures I sent you.

In your letter to me you stated that " during the rainy season you have the plugs removed so that  large ' basins ' of water do not accumulate at the rear of the packers in the hoppers. Such basins of water would create a worse situation in terms of both spillages onto city streets (especially on packer turns) and splashing employees standing at the rear of the packer."

Is this how you contain the garbage leachate so it will not be spread all over the streets of Vancouver?

You keep referring to the fluid in the back of the city garbage trucks as water. Sorry this fluid is not water and you know it. It is why you do not want this fluid to splash your employees. Once this garbage gets mixed with water and then pressed and squeezed out over and over again it changes the fluid from water to garbage leachate. The bacteria, viruses, parasites, molds and fungi, chemical combinations and whatever else that are in the garbage itself leach out of the garbage and  become part of the properties in the fluid the garbage is mixed with when compacted and pressed  over and over again . This is why you do not want this fluid to splash on your employees and rightfully so.

Bharbara Gudmundson

      Let’s look for a moment at where the garbage leachate goes when it is drained from the Vancouver City garbage trucks on a regular basis during the rainy season, as stated in the November 14, 2003 letter to me, from the Sanitation Operations Branch of the Engineering Services Department of the City of Vancouver. This spill occurred within five feet of a sewer. The rain washes the garbage leachate into the ground, where it flows to the lowest point at False Creek and into the sewer system where it drains directly into the Vancouver harbor (a Federal responsibility), compromising and destroying marine life and habitat (also a Federal responsibility).  

      February 24, 2004 I received  the following letter from Christiane Morin on behalf of David Anderson, Federal Minister of the Environment.

From  ')">"Morin,Christiane [NCR]" Christiane.Morin@ec.gc.ca> 

Sent  Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:34 am

Subject  On behalf of David Anderson - Au nom de David Anderson

Dear Ms. Gudmundson: 

Thank you for your e-mail of December 31, 2003, regarding garbage leachate onto the streets of major cities.  

As indicated in my letter of July 19, 2003, the problem of spillage onto city streets falls under the responsibility of municipalities.  

I am confident that city officials will continue to respond to complaints such as those you raised in your e-mail and enforce the bylaws in cases where there is garbage leachate onto city streets.  

I appreciate your having taken the time to write and hope that the information provided is useful. 

      From 1999 until the present I have been appealing to Members of Parliament in the Federal Government, the Federal Ministers of the Environment ( as well as all Provincial Ministers of the Environment in Canada), the Federal Minister of Health, the Federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Federal Minister of Justice. For most of the past ten years when I have sent a letter to the Federal Government, I have sent that letter to all of Canada’s Federal Members of Parliament, all of the B.C.M.L.A.’s, the G.V.R.D. and Vancouver Mayor and Councillors. I have done this to make sure everyone totally understands that garbage leachate is being spread all over North American communities where compactor garbage trucks are being used.  I also felt that somewhere in all of those political representatives there would be someone or a group of people who might care enough to do something to assist in stopping the release of garbage leachate from compactor garbage trucks and doing harm to Canadians. 

      For the years 1991 to 2003 I have prepared a flickr collection that documents all photographs and correspondence from those years. The following link will direct you to the collection titled ‘We’ve Been Poisoned - 1991 to 2003 documentation’. 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bharbara/collections/72157603541114578/

      I have done a different type of documentation in the last six months. I have photographed and filmed garbage leachate being released on an intersection in this community from October 2008 to March 2009. This spreading of garbage leachate occurred during the time the children traveled to school. Each time there was a release of garbage leachate from the compactor garbage truck, I sent the information and photos and/or films to Vancouver City Council. To date I have received no answer from any member of Council. I have no indication that anything has been done to stop this from occurring. The garbage leachate is still being released on to the intersection. This is all occurring five feet from a sewer that drains directly into the Vancouver Harbor. The following link will direct you to the YouTube site that has the film showing the incidents of garbage leachate being released over the last six months and the letters that were written to Vancouver City Hall.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kedPvxNUbw  

      So basically the Federal Government has known for the past 10 years that compactor garbage trucks have been releasing garbage leachate all over streets and lanes of North American cities and towns. The Federal Government has known for the past 10 years that the garbage leachate was being drained and washed into the sewer systems when flushed with a flusher or rainwater. 

The impact of garbage leachate on Global Warming

      Although this practice of releasing garbage leachate has been occurring since 1938, I have ensured Federal, Provincial and Municipal Governments have known that my research shows the release of garbage leachate since 1991.

It is obvious to me, that we have a governmental process that does not work in the best interests of the people of Canada. Our Federal Government has been allowing us to be poisoned and merely washes it's hands saying they are not responsible. All levels of government have been passing the buck and serious environmental issues have been allowed to continue doing us all serious harm. 

     Once all of the combinations of chemical substances are released into the environment we can no longer take them back. One of my flickr collections titled, "We've Been Poisoned" shows how all levels of our Government in Canada have knowingly allowed us all to continue being poisoned. As well as poisoning us garbage naturally heats things up. This is seen in all landfills. Aside from the heating of household food waste in the dumpsters, there are chemicals that should not be combined. When they are combined there is a spontaneous chemical combustion that occurs. When you take garbage leachate and systematically spread it all over the streets and lanes of Canadian and American cities and towns since 1938 you heat those cities and towns. The repeated release of mixtures of unknown chemical combinations continually changes but it doesn't disappear once released on to our communities. The repeated release of garbage leachate from compactor garbage trucks has created a cumulative environmental health issue that continues to get worse. With each new batch of chemicals created there are more chemical combinations to add to the contents of the toxic substances being spread all over our communities by drivers draining and leaking garbage leachate from their compactor garbage trucks. The Federal Government has been approving the use of various types of chemical combinations without taking into consideration the cumulative dangers presented by mixtures of chemicals that have never been designed to be mixed as is found in the garbage leachate being spread all over Canadian communities, then allowed to drain into our waterways. 

This link is for a collection titled ‘Garbage Leachate spread over our Community October, November and December  2008’.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/bharbara/collections/72157609613173017/ . All of the responsible departments should be ashamed and held responsible for the results of inaction.

Questions addressing the impact of Federal Government inaction regarding the systematic release of garbage leachate from compacter garbage trucks since 1991 and their responsibility to protect Marine Life and Marine Habitat.

The Federal Government was contacted ten years ago and informed that compactor garbage trucks were releasing garbage leachate on Vancouver streets and lanes that was draining into our waterways contravening Section 36, subsection 3 of the Canadian Fisheries Act, 1999. 

I am asking all responsible departments in the Federal Government:

1   Does Garbage Leachate not qualify as a deleterious substance?

2   Does the Federal Government have any analysis of this type of garbage leachate?

3   Assuming the Federal Government does have analysis of this type of garbage leachate, what will all responsible departments do to address this issue?  

4   Section 32 of the Canadian Fisheries Act, 1999 states  “ No person shall destroy fish by any means other than fishing ...”

We know that this garbage leachate drains directly into our creeks, rivers, ponds, lakes and oceans. I am asking all responsible departments, why garbage leachate containing many known and unknown combinations of chemical substances, bacteria, viruses, moulds, fungi and parasites, that’s been repeatedly compacted and drained from compactor garbage trucks, has been allowed to continue to flow into our sewer systems?

Toxic chemical combinations found in landfill garbage leachate arrive at the landfill in these same compactor garbage trucks. Many compactor garbage truck drivers knowingly spread the most potent of these toxic chemical combinations etc. all over the communities they travel in. In the youtube film  you can see some slight leakage and some much heavier leakage. All spills in this film are five feet from the sewer drain that travels directly into the Vancouver Harbor. The film   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kedPvxNUbw  was created to better define for Canadian Federal Ministers who are responsible for this, what is continuing to occur because they did not stop garbage leachate from being repeatedly released into sewer systems that flow directly into creeks, rivers, ponds, lakes and oceans from compactor garbage trucks as they travel through our communities.  As outlined in the Canadian Fisheries Act, 1999 you have the ability to address this issue. 

5    When are the responsible departments going to use the system as outlined in the Canadian Fisheries Act, 1999, to ensure this practice of releasing garbage leachate from compactor garbage trucks and drained into the sewer system, is stopped?

6    After seeing the information in the flickr sites I have prepared, I am asking responsible departments, who’s going to ensure that the Federal, Provincial and Municipal governments protect the Earth's waterways from the release of extremely toxic substances found in  garbage leachate being drained from compactor garbage trucks as they travel through Canadian communities?

7     I am asking all responsible departments, when governments are not willing to do their jobs, who is going to protect Earth and all that live on this Earth from warming through spontaneous chemical combustion due to this release of garbage leachate? 

8   When we understand combinations of some chemicals create spontaneous chemical combustion and mixtures of many types of bacteria, viruses, moulds, fungi and parasites can be lethal, how can all responsible departments, justify allowing unknown combinations of chemical substances, to be repeatedly spread all over Canadian communities since they were first advised this was occurring in 1999?

9   When will the individuals in responsible departments be held accountable for the harm their inaction has caused? In the case of the Vancouver Council for 18 years, for 14 years in the case of the Provincial government (with the exception of Gordon Campbell who has responsibility since he was Mayor of Vancouver in 1991) and 10 years in the case of the Federal government?