An environmental assessment committee has been appointed for a controversial industrial composting facility proposed for the Long Harbour Access Road.

Terrence Penney is behind Newfoundland Industrial Composting Ltd, and has made two previous unsuccessful attempts to develop a similar facility near Holyrood and Whitbourne.

The composting facility will render offal and organic waste from fur farms, chicken processing and fish farms.

The nearby town of Chapel Arm is dead-set against the proposed facility. The town held a public meeting in the spring, and advised the provincial government of their opposition to the proposal.