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      <title>Ms Veronique Verstichelen [Signature #133]</title>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #132]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Salt Spring Island, BC]]></description>
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      <title>Mr. Dan Miller [Signature #131]</title>
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      <title>Frances Litman [Signature #130]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Frances Litman, Victoria, BC]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 8 Jun 2021 06:05:46 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. Dylan Kos [Signature #129]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Dylan Kos, Willis Point, B.C]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 5 Jun 2021 03:48:49 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Judith Finlayson [Signature #128]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Judith Finlayson, Victoria, BC]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 5 Jun 2021 03:03:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Audrey Barnes [Signature #127]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Audrey Barnes, Victoria BC, Canada<p>The comment "the biosolids being produced at Hartland do not meet the specifications for the plant." speaks volumes as to why they are not safe and should not be spread in our natural environment..</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Jun 2021 07:44:02 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. William Christie [Signature #126]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. William Christie, Victoria, BC]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2020 06:18:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #125]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, victoria, BC]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:59:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Lauren Stacey [Signature #124]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Lauren Stacey, Victoria, BC<p>I am absolutely opposed to the CRD decision to spread bio-solids on Saanich lands. I cannot believe the level of disrespect shown consistently to the residents of Hartland ave and surrounding areas.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:37:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>C Lane [Signature #123]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[C Lane, Victoria, BC<p>No contamination. The time needs to be spent on removing toxins from the sludge safely. Perhaps incineration with air quality control is the sustainable option.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 07:36:16 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Anonymous [Signature #122]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Victoria, BC<p>This is spreading a concentration of contaminates that has caused health issues in other areas. No.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2020 07:22:25 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Anonymous [Signature #121]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Vancouver, BC]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2019 06:55:39 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Debora M Dickson [Signature #120]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Debora M Dickson, Victoria, B C Canada<p>I cannot believe at this Late date rhe CRD & Project Board have not incorporated proven technology that was in use many years ago in Washington.  This Board has wasted Millions of our tax dollars and still now plan.  What's wrong with this picture?<br />
As a taxpayer and a citizen, I demand<br />
Solutions that do not pollute the air, land or waters.<br />
Biosolids on our Farmlands is not an acceptable solution for the future.   Not only will it this unhealthy practice destroy our groundwaters, in addtion, negatively impact, if not be complicit to the extinction of the Species At Risk, as well as all inhabitants of the Salish Sea.   The impacts of storm water runoff are well documented.  The Salish Sea is an inland sea that needs our protection now.<br />
This  knee-jerk reaction by the CRD does not serve the future.</p>

<p>Regards,<br />
Mrs. Deborah Dickson</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2018 06:52:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms. Patricia Ray [Signature #119]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms. Patricia Ray, Merritt, British Columbia<p>Developments have been made in the treatment of biosolids with the advent of pyrolysis plants and gasification plants which not only destroy the majority of the &quot;product&quot; they also are a source of useable energy.    Stop the spread of biosolids on the land and stop dumping our sewage into the oceans -- we are active participants in the killing of our planet.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 3 Nov 2017 04:16:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Georgia Clement [Signature #118]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Georgia Clement, Chilliwack BC, Canada<p>This is a third world solution to a first world problem! Gasification and Pyrolysis are two alternatives that can be explored and implemented!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Nov 2017 04:12:22 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #117]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, victoria, bc<p>don&#039;t poison the land</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Nov 2017 02:31:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms Sharon Hughes [Signature #116]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms Sharon Hughes, victoria, bc<p>No stockpiling of toxic sewer sludge on the Saanich Peninsula, Willis Point&quot; Hartland &quot;North&quot; no contaminating of farms, wells, air or water. No fire or explosion hazard! No risk to our forest areas, agriculture or watershed! Thank-You!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Nov 2017 01:44:10 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. Soren Henrich [Signature #115]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Soren Henrich, Victoria, British Columbia<p>No Sludge on Land. Period. Stop trying to sell us on &#039;Class-A&#039; or &#039;beneficial use&#039;  of your so-called &#039;biosolids&#039;. We will not be fooled.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Nov 2017 11:41:51 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Cathy Laursen [Signature #114]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cathy Laursen, Powell River, BC<p>Nicola Valley rural community subjected to the stink of human and industrial excrement (Class B sludge) now &quot;composted&quot; at what was a pretty little rural farmhouse (Green Gables).  Can smell it for at least 5 km.  The plan is now underway to spread the &quot;composted product&quot; on virgin grasslands and forests in the interior of BC.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2015 10:13:25 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Georgia Clement [Signature #113]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Georgia Clement, Merritt, B.C., BC<p>This process of using Bio Waste is now being done in the Nicola Valley/ Merritt area of B.C. close to housing and community wells...we are having a very hard time stopping this and getting the gov&#039;t agencies to change the policies regarding this toxic waste product !! Friends of the Nicola Valley FB page is now informing local residents of the harmful effects and there is wide spread outrage...this needs to change now !!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Shannon Arenburg [Signature #112]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Shannon Arenburg, Aylesford, Nova Scotia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:50:03 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>MS Anonymous [Signature #111]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Mt Bethel, PA]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:33:43 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #110]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, merrit, b. c.<p>we have the same application going on 1 km from my house on hay fields.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:38:32 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs. Tracy Gorman [Signature #109]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Tracy Gorman, Mount Bethel, PA<p>EPA doesn&#039;t have the man power to check farms using this sludge for harmful pathogens.  I believe the life compatible substances that can be found in sewage sludge so greatly outweigh the so called nutrient benefit as to make the potential benefit irrelevant.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2013 07:24:59 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Patricia Mason [Signature #108]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Patricia Mason, Victoria, BC<p>Please don&#039;t overturn the ban on using biosolids on our farmer&#039;s fields - food crop and otherwise.  As the CRD voted on July 13, 2011 which passes that the CRD does not support the application of biosolids on farmland in the CRD under any circumstances...and on...</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2013 01:22:32 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Patricia Mason [Signature #107]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Patricia Mason, Victoria, B.C.<p>Please CRD vote no to keep the ban on the land application of biosolids on Oct 30, 2013</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 04:47:49 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. Giovanni Valle [Signature #106]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Giovanni Valle, Brockton, MA]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:12:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Kornelis Marinusse [Signature #105]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Kornelis Marinusse, Merritt, BC<p>We are living close to a farmer that uses hundreds of truck loads of bio-solids on his fields and I am worried that our water over time is going to be affected by the bio-solids. We (my family and surrounding neighbours) would like for this to come to an end before this whole valley is ruined by one farmer.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 02:00:03 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Genevieve Grant [Signature #104]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Genevieve Grant, Victoria, BC]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2013 04:51:55 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Tanya McKinney [Signature #103]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tanya McKinney, Esquimalt, BC]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2013 04:48:13 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Paula McHale [Signature #102]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Paula McHale, Victoria, BC]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2013 04:45:12 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Jan Lavallee [Signature #101]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jan Lavallee, Victoria, BC]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 4 Jun 2013 03:15:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Bev Henry [Signature #100]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bev Henry, Barriere, B.C.<p>Our own regional district - TNRD - has developed a very slick marketing program extolling the virtues of land application of sludge, claiming it is processed &quot;in a manner that protects human health and the environment, and that their application is beneficial to the environment.&quot;<br />
I find this claim extremely misleading.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Nancy Roussy [Signature #99]</title>
      <link>https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13944041?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Nancy Roussy, Ste-Florence, Quebec]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 03:38:25 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Allyson Gove [Signature #98]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Allyson Gove, Victoria, BC<p>STOP TOXIC ACCUMULATION</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 05:10:09 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Lorieann Publicover [Signature #97]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Lorieann Publicover, Fort Mcmurray, Alberta<p>Keep our lands clean! Everyone and everything has the right to live and thrive in a healthy environment! I quote Dr. Seuss&#039;s book The Lorax, &quot;I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues!&quot; Help  us give voices for all the life on our Mother Earth.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:17:10 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr David Facey [Signature #96]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr David Facey, Vernon, BC<p>A nearby biosolids compost facility is situated near my home and odours are present nearly everyday. This despite millions of dollars spent on upgrades and officials promissing odours would not be present. The plant is also overlooking Kalamalka Lake and I am concerned about the health of my family, neighbours and community who&#039;s source of drinking water is Kalamalka Lake.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms. Ellen Publicover [Signature #95]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms. Ellen Publicover, Victoria, B.C.<p>Im soooo happy that I just made a soup out of my own veggies from my own sludge free garden!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:10:34 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. Lynn Bruce [Signature #94]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Lynn Bruce, Saturna Island, British Columbia<p>Sludge does not belong on Farm land or on vegetable gardens. New technologies, using sludge to produce energy etc., even if they cost us some money in the short term, will protect our soils for food production. Applying sludge to farmland, is not sustainable and, in my view, is a risky business.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:32:32 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs. Stephanie Skippon [Signature #93]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs. Stephanie Skippon, West Vancouver, British Columbia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:06:35 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr. Marilyn Cameron [Signature #92]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr. Marilyn Cameron, Wolfville, Nova Scotia<p>Great Initiative!   Let&#039;s pursue a Biosolids Free Canada and start to clean up our food systems.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:54:38 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Maureen Reilly [Signature #91]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Maureen Reilly, Toronto, Ontario<p>It is not sustainable to put sewage sludge on farmland.  There are too many unknown (and known) toxins in sludge.  We don&#039;t want to increase our body burden of toxins from our food. And it is not reasonable to expose rural residents to the disease pathogens found in sludge.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jane Baigent, Victoria, BC<p>Communities in the US are backing out of agreements to spread biosolids - a marketing term, not a scientific term - on farmland or even non-agricultural land because of health issues. Why are we even considering such insanity?</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Gabriel Epstein [Signature #89]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Gabriel Epstein, Victoria, BC]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:03:49 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Patti Parkhouse [Signature #88]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Patti Parkhouse, Victoria, BC]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:33:34 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Leah Seltzer [Signature #87]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Leah Seltzer, Victoria, BC]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Tamara Schwartzentruber [Signature #86]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Tamara Schwartzentruber, Saanich, BC<p>There is ample evidence that biosolids are unsafe for land application, not only because of pathogens but perhaps more importantly because we have no way of effectively controlling what people put down their drains and toilets, including all manner of toxins.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Chris Fretwell, North Saanich, BC]]></description>
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      <title>Denise Dunn [Signature #84]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Denise Dunn, Victoria, BC]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Heather Clebo, Victoria, BC<p>In the interests in the health, safety, and food security of Capital Region citizens now and in the future - DON&#039;T DESTROY/TOXIFY OUR FARMLAND!! I don&#039;t want my pet rabbits eating toxic hay, and I don&#039;t want to eat animals raised on toxic hay, or eat produce grown in toxic soil. WHAT are you THINKING!!</p>]]></description>
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<p>I have toured the site and it appears to be sate of the art, but there may still be concerns about pharmaceuticals, and other toxic elements finding their way through the system via their cows.</p>]]></description>
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