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Grain Dumping

Res #: 4-17A
Number: 4
Year: 2017
Midterm: No
Expired: No
Responses Received: No
Departments: Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture

WHEREAS truckers are cleaning grain trailers on municipal roads, provincial highways and approaches; and

WHEREAS materials being dumped contain weed seeds and crop residue from out of province and other areas of the province;

BE IT RESOLVED that SARM lobby the Provincial Government to include grain dumping as an offence subject to fines; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that that SARM lobby the Provincial Government to legislate all grain companies to establish dumping sites at their respective terminals.

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