Halifax (Regional Municipality) v. Ed DeWolfe Trucking Ltd). Country/Territory Canada Type of court National - higher court Date Aug 16, 2007 Source UNEP, InforMEA Court name Nova Scotia Court of Appeal Seat of court Halifax Judge Roscoe, Cromwell and Saunders. Reference number 2007 NSCA 89 Language English Subject Waste & hazardous substances Keyword Solid waste Food waste Organic waste Waste disposal Waste domestic sources Waste management Waste non-domestic sources Transport/storage Abstract In June 2002, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) amended its Solid Waste Resource Collection and Disposal By-Law (S-600) to require that waste generated and collected in the municipality including IC&I solid waste, but not recyclables be trucked to a public-private facility at Otter Lake, while C&D waste must go to a privately operated facility in HRM. However, Ed DeWolfe Trucking Limited, a solid waste hauler, challenged the by-law on the basis that HRM had created a waste disposal monopoly. In 2006, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia agreed and quashed the by-law. The municipality appealed and the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal upheld the by-law, stating that the by-law “… sought to assure that the Municipality had management of all the waste for which it is responsible, to provide a predictable flow of revenue to help fund the waste resource management system and, particularly in the case of IC&I Waste, to support municipal efforts to maximize source separation and diversion of waste. The Court of Appeal stated that statutory municipal powers should be interpreted broadly, based on their purpose, and upheld the HRM flow control by-law, overturning a lower court's decision that would have allowed truckers to take HRM garbage to dumps in rural areas where tipping fees are lower. The court found that the bylaw has a proper municipal purpose and is authorized under the Municipal Government Act. Full text COU-156953.pdf