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Hog Plants - they bloom by the end of summer  A rant by: Mitch I am a big fan of the new hog plant. I love pork and even pork substitutes. I'm curious to see how many people that are against the hog plant are actually business owners who employ other people. I for one am all for our new swine overlords. Unless you have something better to propose to expand the tax base in the city I think you should zip it. << Back Add a Comment Comments ( Add a Comment ) Anonymous says: 2006-05-26 10:44:38 Why not build it in Charleswood? Se if they like it. BigB: your ignorance precedes you. Anonymous says: 2006-05-26 11:16:16 Actually, it's closer to Transcona and they are the ones concerned with the smell right now. (BTW: Transcona is neither French nor trash and is white minority...) Anonymous says: 2006-05-26 12:29:41 I'm all for it, too, but it should be built beside BigB's house. twistedmanitoba says: 2006-05-26 17:04:14 big deal! it\'s already smelly in that area anyways.plus it will create a vast amount of jobs. BigB says: 2006-05-26 17:19:28 Did someone say Transcona isnt trash? It's a great thing to put blue collar jobs in blue collar country. As for building it in my area, they would never put a hog plant in upper class developments. That's why we pay big tax, to get away from you scum and your stinking union labour jobs! BalthazaarRamrod says: 2006-05-26 17:42:38 Frankly, I don't understand why the don't build it just outside the city so it doesn't affect too many people. With good planning workers could even have a shuttle bus. Katz just lost a fan. jammin says: 2006-05-26 17:52:33 I think the issue is infastructure. The St.Boniface site is in area already developed for industry with good access to utilities as well as to transportation routes. I for one would like to see the outcome of the environmental imact assessment by the provincial government before I take a side either way. jammin says: 2006-05-26 18:14:47 and before anyone attacks my lack of spelling ability, I meant to say impact and not imact. twistedmanitoba says: 2006-05-28 01:09:52 what abt infrastructure? i believe you spelled it "infastructure" LOL just jokes i know i spell like ass too Mitch says: 2006-05-28 08:29:05 Sticking it in the country is classic NIMBY. If you eat pork you shouldn't complain that there's a pork plant in your back yard. It's the same as when people complain about prisons but want nothing to do with a prison in their area. You can't have it both ways. If you want to eat meat, you need a meat processing plant. BalthazaarRamrod says: 2006-05-28 13:39:27 Canada is the second largest country in the world by Land Mass. We have roughly 30 million people living here. If we had population density like they do in Japan or even most European countries, I might agree with you. As it stands, there is little reason why they cannot build the plant outside the city where it won't be an inconveniece to anyone. We'll see just how much of an inconvenience it might be after the environmental hearing. Anonymous says: 2006-07-26 16:56:40 why doesn't anyone think about the pigs? they live tortured lives. and a hog plant anywhere in this province will only add to our water pollution. the issue should not be about location at all, but winnipeggers are obviously stupid, at least the ones who voted in sam. Anonymous says: 2006-07-26 19:57:03 Millions of animals translates to santary sewer overload.Where much of the waste will collect and rot and smell for miles. Thousands of trucks , cars andding to traffic and demand on roads. Big tax base with all those jobs? Don't count on it . Wages won't be so high. If they were , the workers could afford to drive to an out of town plant. And the homes which have been depreciated because of the plant won't retain their value or their tax revenue. Nuff said. Anonymous says: 2006-07-27 08:26:59 This is directed to the first person who commented, who said the complainers were "white trash french" (you speak great English, pal!) but didn't complain about the mushroom plant on Archibald (actually it's on Mission, but no matter). I go by this every day on my way to work and some days it's quite bearable, but other days it is absolutely atrocious and I would gladly join with homeowners living down wind to burn the place down. No one should have to live with that. It is nauseating. People complain about mosquitoes ruining summer - this stench is year-round. I would never want to leave my house! And that is what a lot of people are concerned about. If THAT place gets an environmental OK, then can any other place smell that bad and also get the OK? If I lived nearby the proposed hog processing facility, I'd be fighting for all I was worth, all the time thinking about that mushroom plant. Because at the end of the day if one plant can get away with it, so can another, and I don't want any of it within fifty miles of me. GreatFlatLand says: 2006-11-20 12:00:31 I think that many people don't consider the benefits of a hog plant within the city limits. I agree, smell is bad but I live In St.B and maybe get a bad smell around 4 or 5 days a year and I'm within 5 kms of the renderng plans on Lagimodiere and the mushroom plant. There are big benefits to locating the plant in the city that people should consider. First, the City of Winnipeg has sewage treatment. If the plant was located outside the city a new plant would have to be built and who do you think would pay for that.....yes, we would. Second, 1800 employees means that mass transit would be needed so people could get to work. Not everyone can commute by car to work 20 kms outside the city and transit tom does not service the area outside the perimeter. I think that people need to weigh the pros and cons and make an informed decision as to where they stand. IJustWannaSayThis says: 2006-11-21 13:00:39 Why do people think that those against the plant are not informed, or that they are some kind of kooks, any more that those who want the plant? I don't agree that having the plant inside the city is a good idea, and for most of the reasons you gave supporting it. First of all, was the sewage plant designed to handle the kind of volume and the kind of waste that it will get, thanks to this new factory? A few hundred more homes, even a few thousand, are nothing compared to what will be coming down the pipe once this plant is operational. As for public transportation, sure, some might take public transportation but for the most part it will be more and more cars. I can't say I've ever seen hundreds of people standing at bus stops at the plant on Lagmodiere waiting for buses after the shift ends. So more cars, in an area which is poorly serviced by roads now. (And for what it's worth, the highway where I assume the trucks will be coming in from is in pretty poor condition - one lane in each direction all the way to the Trans-Canada.) I assume more roads will be built, but who is paying for that? Most likely the city, which has already paid millions just to have this plant locate within the city. So yes, while there are some advantages, such as employment for Winnipeggers, there are some very definite disadvantages that shouldn't be quickly dismissed. |
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The complainers are all white trash french! Why do we even listen to their complaints? They dont complain about the processing plant on marion or the mushroom plant on archibald. Why not throw more stink into their filthy community?