Timiskaming milk producers may be stuck on the hoof with excess milk if Parmalat Canada makes good on its threat not to buy area milk as a result of a proposed hazardous-waste incinerator in Kirkland Lake.
"Parmalat Canada cannot give assurance that we would be willing to continue to purchase milk in the Timiskaming District following the implementation of such a facility," vice-president of operations for Parmalat, Robert Poirier, stated in a recent letter to the MPP for Timiskaming-Cochrane.
The company wants scientific proof from Bennett Environmental Inc. that there will be no harmful impacts to agricultural in the region if a plant were to be developed in Kirkland Lake.
Milk from the Timiskaming district is shipped to Parmalat plants in Sudbury, Thornloe and Laverlochere in Que.
