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Edmontonians will have to wait even longer to find out the future of calcium chloride as an anti-icer on city roads.

After nearly three hours of debate on the topic at city hall Tuesday, councillors ran out of time to discuss the issue, postponing a decision on whether or not the city will continue to use the contentious brine this winter.

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Calcium chloride has been used as part of the city’s snow and ice pilot program for the past two winters. Its fate for a third winter was up for debate Tuesday as councillors considered an amended motion that would immediately freeze the city’s use of the chemical.

Ward 9 Coun. Tim Cartmell brought forward the amended motion, which would also require the city to cut down on its use of regular sodium chloride salt.

“All along my concern has been all of the salt that we’ve used as part of this strategy and I would like us to limit how much salt we use,” Cartmell said outside of council during lunch break.