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contain background information for becoming informed on sulphur
issues and their impact on communities like ours. These web
pages summarize sulphur-related incidents and catastrophes (and
related losses, injuries and deaths) throughout the world, from
three different perspectives:
This website is in support of FOLC (the Friends of Lamont County
for Responsible Industrial and Community Development). It
is not owned and operated by FOLC,
it
is not the official website of FOLC and does not
necessarily reflect any official positions taken by FOLC on any
industrial, commercial or residential development issues in the
County of Lamont.
The western boundary of Lamont County is located roughly 12 miles NE
from the City of Fort Saskatchewan, in Alberta, Canada, and about
5 miles (soon to be one mile) downwind from the heavy-industrial plants located NE of
Fort Saskatchewan in the Industrial Heartland of Alberta.
Lamont County is predominantly agricultural but has begun to try to
attract industry and is still hoping to attract industry like that
which provided for the neighbouring Strathcona County a
plentiful source of tax revenue, such as oil refineries, plastic
and fertilizer producers, and oil-sands bitumen upgraders.
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About FOLC and
folc.ca
FOLC is an association of Lamont County residents
who are concerned about what the booming Alberta oil industry may
bring for the health and well-being of their families, children,
properties and environment.
FOLC is a not-for-profit organization whose volunteer members, with
help and donations from Lamont County residents, monitor industrial
and community developments affecting them and their neighbours.
FOLC is not opposed to industrial developments in
Lamont County but will identify and oppose developments that pose
threats to the wellbeing of the environment, health, society and
finances of Lamont County, its residents, businesses and farms.
folc.ca
is a website in support of FOLC (the Friends of Lamont County
for Responsible Industrial and Community Development).
The folc.ca
website
is not owned and operated by FOLC,
it
is not the official website of FOLC and does not necessarily
reflect any official positions taken by FOLC on any
industrial, commercial or residential development issues in the
County of Lamont.
The risk associated with attracting industry to our county is that
Lamont County may evolve into the cesspool for Strathcona County's
oil industry, into a place for storing, dumping or otherwise disposing
of industrial wastes that are not wanted in Strathcona County or
elsewhere.
Those things can turn into extremely expensive and crushing
liabilities for Lamont-County rate payers as time goes by and our
children grow up. We hope that we will leave our county to
our children in better condition than that we were entrusted with.
Some of the industry that is being invited to locate in our county
may prevent us from doing that.
The owners of big industry (and even virtually all of the
staff of our County Office) don't live here, our children,
grandchildren and we do.
