TORONTO — M & M Concrete Pumping Inc. and its director Martin Meloche have been fined $2,000 after failing to comply with a Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks order to provide written confirmation that all waste had been removed from an Ottawa site by a licensed waste hauler and disposed of at an approved waste disposal site.
The offence took place between June 2017 to June 2018 and the company was convicted June 20.
The company, which is in the business of concrete pumping and provides clients with other demolition/construction services, was convicted of one violation under the Environmental Protection Act and was fined $2,000 plus victim fine surcharge of $500 with one year to pay. Meloche, who owns a property on Canaan Road in Ottawa, was given a suspended sentence.
In response to a public complaint, in October 2016, the ministry conducted an inspection at the site and observed a substantial amount of waste, including construction and demolition waste such as brick, concrete, rebar and domestic waste.
According to a court bulletin, Meloche acknowledged that the waste came from M & M Concrete jobs. Ministry records indicated that the site was not a ministry approved waste disposal site, so Meloche was given a period of time to have the waste removed, which he failed to do. In June 2017, a ministry order was issued.
A site inspection in 2017 determined that waste was still on site. After numerous calls from the ministry, the waste was removed approximately a year after the Order deadline and almost 20 months following the first inspection, indicates the bulletin.
The ministry’s Investigations and Enforcement Branch investigated and laid charges resulting in the conviction and the suspended sentence.
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