There is astonishingly…

There is astonishingly little information available about this application for a change in hours. Nor does it seem justified that this operation be allowed to operate 27/7. The current hours of closure are needed to help clear the air, provide the time for the dust and fine particulate matter to settle to earth. In fact, since none of this is supposed to exit the site, it is an aberration that it does. Since, however, Ministry inspectors are not on a 24/7 schedule, they cannot inspect this operation during its entire working hours. This means that daily total emissions and/or sudden spikes in the dust emissions cannot be effectively measured. There is astonishingly little information available about this application for a change in hours. Nor does it seem justified that this operation be allowed to operate 27/7. The current hours of closure are needed to help clear the air, provide the time for the dust and fine particulate matter to settle to earth. In fact, since no dust is to exit the site, as per regulations, it would seem more appropriate for it to be fully accessible for inspection. The change of hours means that inspectors are not available when it is running
There is no indication that the added production engendered by the added hours has been taken into account: this will inevitably means added pummeling of local municipal and county roads, with no mechanism indicated of how the community will recoup these costs.