Comments on: WE WON! One-year moratorium carries 22-10 http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931 Protect our water! Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:46:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Marguerite Lippert http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931&cpage=2#comment-2144 Marguerite Lippert Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:35:33 +0000 http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931#comment-2144 Thankyou all for your hard struggle on this. This is my mother's turf, Midland and Honey Harbour, and as a child, we'd venture to Beausoliel by boat from Robert's Island for the sweetest spring water in the world. It's a beautiful island as it's name suggests and countless numbers have enjoyed it's precious pure resource. It's an abomination that there'd be plans to pollute it forever. This is native land and the gem of cottage country. It's also always been the main campground in the area. How could Parks Canada possibly allow the idea of such harm. Are some politicians' minds so polluted that threatening the well used pristine landscape of Beausoliel could ever seem like a good idea?!?! Thankyou. Confounded but Relieved. Thankyou all for your hard struggle on this.
This is my mother’s turf, Midland and Honey Harbour, and as a child, we’d venture to Beausoliel by boat from Robert’s Island for the sweetest spring water in the world.
It’s a beautiful island as it’s name suggests and countless numbers have enjoyed it’s precious pure resource.
It’s an abomination that there’d be plans to pollute it forever.
This is native land and the gem of cottage country.
It’s also always been the main campground in the area.
How could Parks Canada possibly allow the idea of such harm.
Are some politicians’ minds so polluted that threatening the well used pristine landscape of Beausoliel could ever seem like a good idea?!?!
Thankyou.
Confounded but Relieved.

]]> By: Vicki http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931&cpage=2#comment-1037 Vicki Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:52:50 +0000 http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931#comment-1037 Thank you so much to my lawyers, Peter Rosenthal and Chris Reid who fought with County Lawyers to ensure this moratorium, injunction/lawsuit and the IPC inquiry to the Calibrated ModFlow be on the agenda in this Council meetings as per the resolution all parties agreed to in Court in my case of opposing the injunction. If it wasn't for that, there was no way the moratorium would have been on the agenda, as the County was going to remove it. THANK YOU PETER AND CHRIS! The lawyers who have worked on Site 41 so diligently! Miigwetch, Vicki Thank you so much to my lawyers, Peter Rosenthal and Chris Reid who fought with County Lawyers to ensure this moratorium, injunction/lawsuit and the IPC inquiry to the Calibrated ModFlow be on the agenda in this Council meetings as per the resolution all parties agreed to in Court in my case of opposing the injunction. If it wasn’t for that, there was no way the moratorium would have been on the agenda, as the County was going to remove it.

THANK YOU PETER AND CHRIS! The lawyers who have worked on Site 41 so diligently!

Miigwetch,
Vicki

]]> By: jim tolnai http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931&cpage=2#comment-1014 jim tolnai Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:41:04 +0000 http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931#comment-1014 I am so disappointed that in this day and age an accurate list of who voted for or against is not available 5 minutes after the vote which involved 32 people. Is Simcoe County a province of Afghanistan??? One would almost think so. To have the Barrie Examiner release bogus information like this on top of the arrogance of County management is nothing short of an affront to democracy and good government. If nothing else this proves our system is broken and needs our efforts to fix and change many of the archaic rules which allows a few elected politicians to screw the majority for years. We need change and a slate of candidates in next years elections who will pledge to change the wrongs that have been exposed in our system of government. I am so disappointed that in this day and age an accurate list of who voted for or against is not available 5 minutes after the vote which involved 32 people. Is Simcoe County a province of Afghanistan??? One would almost think so. To have the Barrie Examiner release bogus information like this on top of the arrogance of County management is nothing short of an affront to democracy and good government. If nothing else this proves our system is broken and needs our efforts to fix and change many of the archaic rules which allows a few elected politicians to screw the majority for years. We need change and a slate of candidates in next years elections who will pledge to change the wrongs that have been exposed in our system of government.

]]> By: nefarious.ca » Blog » Simcoe County Council moratorium vote http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931&cpage=2#comment-1012 nefarious.ca » Blog » Simcoe County Council moratorium vote Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:33:30 +0000 http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931#comment-1012 [...] further investigate the environmental impacts on the surrounding area, including the purest water, Simcoe County Council voted in favour for an one year moratorium to halt activities of North Simcoe Landfill (Dump Site 41). Also a motion was tabled for next month [...] [...] further investigate the environmental impacts on the surrounding area, including the purest water, Simcoe County Council voted in favour for an one year moratorium to halt activities of North Simcoe Landfill (Dump Site 41). Also a motion was tabled for next month [...]

]]> By: dmirza http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931&cpage=2#comment-1010 dmirza Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:22:16 +0000 http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931#comment-1010 Congratulations Dump Resisters…beyond all the hyperbole that came from yesterday’s vote, the question many councillors kept asking was – “What are the alternatives to landfills?” Could we as a concerned citizen’s group be future zero-waste liasons for our communities and hold public meetings/workshops (possibly at our local libraries or better yet, City Hall) to explain the alternatives, like how to get Simcoe Counties waste reduction to 100% by 2012. Obviously, garbage industrialists (with there lobbyists and political lackies) will be pushing hard for incinerators or exporting garbage to other counties but if we could head them off by showing how recycling, reducing, reusing and composting (through anaerobic digestion, mechanical biological treatment with bio-gas generation, or simply, “WasteLess” products)is the more cheaper (taxpayers should be happy after this $12mil fiasco), cleaner and the most successful of the alternatives, it will make our task that much more easier for everyone to follow the zero-waste script. Alternatives to landfills can be read on Wikipedia or from Halifax Municipality Web-site- Click: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill Click:http://www.halifax.ca/wrms/alternatives.html The naysayers will call 100% waste diversion impossible but your already @ 60% (KUDOS!) and leading the rest of the province. Do we need a county tax on overpackaged products or just go to the packaging companies and stay “STOP!”-we’re not buying this anymore. (Ontario already has a 5 cent tax on plastic bags-now law!!) Do we really need to support the polysterene industry by selling our fruits at farmer’s markets in plastic containers when good old recyclable cardboard will do. Yes, banning bottled water in schools and offices is a start, but many people can’t afford those metal containers @ $25 dollars a flask- though the price is coming down – could fundraising provide incentives to bring the costs of these containers down further or could we just make our own in this province. We have learned so much from this landfill struggle…can we continue to teach sustainability to our friends, families, neighbours and elected officials? As the vote was being counted Monday afternoon, I witnessed a line-up of cars leaving Simcoe County Chambers with just one driver. Can we promote car-pools to and from work with recyclable coffee mugs funded by the city? Can we build bike lanes and install bike racks at city hall to get those office workers to and from work?? But the winters you say…what about a City Hall bus to transport workers to and from Kiss & Rides (drop off points) close to where employees live…imagine how far the $12 million dollars could have gone to get people out of their cars, away from drive-thrus that cont. to breed green-house gases and coffee cup lids that ultimately go into…landfills! Give Simcoe County (and the world) sustainable choices and they will come. I have never owned a car and walk, bus and ride a bike year round…and during T.O’s garbage strike tried valiantly to produce NO GARBAGE. I look forward to hearing where our success takes us! There is no water (or air) to waste! Let’s continue building a sustainable Earth community with no garbage and again, congratulations to all of you for saving the Alliston Aquifer. Toronto (and all of Canada) owes you a debt of gratitude for your amazing feat. In Solidarity, Davis Mirza Toronto Congratulations Dump Resisters…beyond all the hyperbole that came from yesterday’s vote, the question many councillors kept asking was – “What are the alternatives to landfills?” Could we as a concerned citizen’s group be future zero-waste liasons for our communities and hold public meetings/workshops (possibly at our local libraries or better yet, City Hall) to explain the alternatives, like how to get Simcoe Counties waste reduction to 100% by 2012.

Obviously, garbage industrialists (with there lobbyists and political lackies) will be pushing hard for incinerators or exporting garbage to other counties but if we could head them off by showing how recycling, reducing, reusing and composting (through anaerobic digestion, mechanical biological treatment with bio-gas generation, or simply, “WasteLess” products)is the more cheaper (taxpayers should be happy after this $12mil fiasco), cleaner and the most successful of the alternatives, it will make our task that much more easier for everyone to follow the zero-waste script. Alternatives to landfills can be read on Wikipedia or from Halifax Municipality Web-site-

Click: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill
Click:http://www.halifax.ca/wrms/alternatives.html

The naysayers will call 100% waste diversion impossible but your already @ 60% (KUDOS!) and leading the rest of the province. Do we need a county tax on overpackaged products or just go to the packaging companies and stay “STOP!”-we’re not buying this anymore. (Ontario already has a 5 cent tax on plastic bags-now law!!) Do we really need to support the polysterene industry by selling our fruits at farmer’s markets in plastic containers when good old recyclable cardboard will do.

Yes, banning bottled water in schools and offices is a start, but many people can’t afford those metal containers @ $25 dollars a flask- though the price is coming down – could fundraising provide incentives to bring the costs of these containers down further or could we just make our own in this province.

We have learned so much from this landfill struggle…can we continue to teach sustainability to our friends, families, neighbours and elected officials? As the vote was being counted Monday afternoon, I witnessed a line-up of cars leaving Simcoe County Chambers with just one driver. Can we promote car-pools to and from work with recyclable coffee mugs funded by the city? Can we build bike lanes and install bike racks at city hall to get those office workers to and from work?? But the winters you say…what about a City Hall bus to transport workers to and from Kiss & Rides (drop off points) close to where employees live…imagine how far the $12 million dollars could have gone to get people out of their cars, away from drive-thrus that cont. to breed green-house gases and coffee cup lids that ultimately go into…landfills!

Give Simcoe County (and the world) sustainable choices and they will come. I have never owned a car and walk, bus and ride a bike year round…and during T.O’s garbage strike tried valiantly to produce NO GARBAGE. I look forward to hearing where our success takes us! There is no water (or air) to waste! Let’s continue building a sustainable Earth community with no garbage and again, congratulations to all of you for saving the Alliston Aquifer.

Toronto (and all of Canada) owes you a debt of gratitude for your amazing feat.
In Solidarity,
Davis Mirza
Toronto

]]> By: chris http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931&cpage=2#comment-985 chris Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:12:56 +0000 http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931#comment-985 The Examiner list is NOT Correct. One certain error is the inclusion of Tony Hope among those voting against the moratorium This is not the case: Tony supported the moratorium and has always carried out his council and his constituents' instructions in this matter. For some reason neither The Examiner nor Goldhawk have corrected this very hurtful and insulting mistake. The only good thing is that anyone who knows Mr Hope knows, without checking, that he did the right thing. The Examiner list is NOT Correct. One certain error is the inclusion of Tony Hope among those voting against the moratorium

This is not the case: Tony supported the moratorium and has always carried out his council and his constituents’ instructions in this matter.

For some reason neither The Examiner nor Goldhawk have corrected this very hurtful and insulting mistake.

The only good thing is that anyone who knows Mr Hope knows, without checking, that he did the right thing.

]]> By: Karen Fox http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931&cpage=2#comment-982 Karen Fox Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:19:43 +0000 http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931#comment-982 It was an amazing experience to be there amongst all of the folks who have worked so hard to get to this point. I feel that it brought so many groups of citizens together in a common goal I was proud to be a part of it. We must remain vigilant thought. This is only the first step. It was an amazing experience to be there amongst all of the folks who have worked so hard to get to this point. I feel that it brought so many groups of citizens together in a common goal I was proud to be a part of it. We must remain vigilant thought. This is only the first step.

]]> By: Dave (WahWahbiginojii) http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931&cpage=2#comment-974 Dave (WahWahbiginojii) Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:18:26 +0000 http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931#comment-974 Boozhoo Nindiwaymaaginidoog.... (that means Hello My Relatives.. we are All Related) It has been my honour to have met and talked and stood strong with everyone at this Site... Site 41 has been Halted for now and the work accomplished is Exceptional...hurray for all of us.. It is a first step toward an excellent future for our children and Grandchildren and the generations yet unborn... We will continue to do what we need to do to ensure a Safe future and honour the gifts that we all share...Clean Water, Clean Air, Everything we need for Mino Bimaadiziwin.... a Good Life. I am in the north again where First Nations communities are facing "exploration and development" from mining companies... those who say "we will not harm the water...." And there is the on-going struggle to ensure that First Nations communities HAVE clean water... there are about 36 communities across Canada where there is NO SAFE DRINKING WATER... what would the press do if there were 36 "Canadian" communities without safe drinking water... so the work continues... I have left Site 41 for now... but may be there for pot luck on Saturday if all goes well... You are ALL deep in my heart, and will remain so forever... Baamaapii WahWahbiginojii Boozhoo Nindiwaymaaginidoog….
(that means Hello My Relatives.. we are All Related)

It has been my honour to have met and talked and stood strong with everyone at this Site… Site 41 has been Halted for now and the work accomplished is Exceptional…hurray for all of us..
It is a first step toward an excellent future for our children and Grandchildren and the generations yet unborn… We will continue to do what we need to do to ensure a Safe future and honour the gifts that we all share…Clean Water, Clean Air, Everything we need for Mino Bimaadiziwin…. a Good Life.

I am in the north again where First Nations communities are facing “exploration and development” from mining companies… those who say “we will not harm the water….”

And there is the on-going struggle to ensure that First Nations communities HAVE clean water… there are about 36 communities across Canada where there is NO SAFE DRINKING WATER… what would the press do if there were 36 “Canadian” communities without safe drinking water…

so the work continues…
I have left Site 41 for now… but may be there for pot luck on Saturday if all goes well…
You are ALL deep in my heart, and will remain so forever…

Baamaapii
WahWahbiginojii

]]> By: Andrew http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931&cpage=2#comment-969 Andrew Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:36:26 +0000 http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931#comment-969 Results of yesterday's vote: Those in FAVOUR of moratorium: Doug Little, Adjala-Tosorontio deputy mayor Mike MacEachern, Mayor of New Tecumseth Rick Milne, Deputy mayor of New Tecumseth Cal Patterson, Mayor of Wasaga Beach mayor Tom Walsh, Mayor of Adjala- Tosorontio Scott Warnock, Mayor of Tay Township Peggy Breckenridge, Mayor of Tiny Township Chris Carrier, Mayor of Collingwood Basil Clarke, Deputy mayor of Ramara Township Judith Cox, Deputy mayor of Severn Township Terry Dowdall, Deputy mayor of Essa Township James Downer, Mayor of Midland Anita Dubeau, Mayor of Penetanguishene Bill Duffy, Mayor of Ramara Township David Foster, Deputy mayor of Wasaga Beach Ruth Hackney, Deputy mayor of Midland Ralph Hough, Deputy mayor of Oro-Medonte Harry Hughes, Mayor of Oro-Medonte Brian Jackson, Mayor of Innisfil Michael Ladouceur, Deputy mayor of Tay Township George Lawrence, Deputy mayor of Tiny Township Doug Leroux, Deputy mayor of Penetanguishene Those AGAINST moratorium: Dennis Roughley, Deputy mayor of Bradford West Gwillimbury Alicia Savage, Deputy mayor of Clearview Township Phil Sled, Mayor of Severn Township Gord Wauchope, Deputy mayor of Innisfil Doug White, Mayor of Bradford West Gwillimbury Sandra Cooper, Deputy mayor of Collingwood Ken Ferguson, Mayor of Clearview Township Warden Tony Guergis, Mayor of Springwater Township Dave Guergis, Mayor of Essa Township Tony Hope, Deputy mayor of Springwater Township Make sure you send letters to those who supported the moratorium, thanking them for their vote...and of course, keep pressure on those who opposed the moratorium to pass the vote being put forth by Doug Little at the next meeting. Taken from the Barrie Examiner. Results of yesterday’s vote:

Those in FAVOUR of moratorium:

Doug Little, Adjala-Tosorontio deputy mayor
Mike MacEachern, Mayor of New Tecumseth
Rick Milne, Deputy mayor of New Tecumseth
Cal Patterson, Mayor of Wasaga Beach mayor
Tom Walsh, Mayor of Adjala- Tosorontio
Scott Warnock, Mayor of Tay Township
Peggy Breckenridge, Mayor of Tiny Township
Chris Carrier, Mayor of Collingwood
Basil Clarke, Deputy mayor of Ramara Township
Judith Cox, Deputy mayor of Severn Township
Terry Dowdall, Deputy mayor of Essa Township
James Downer, Mayor of Midland
Anita Dubeau, Mayor of Penetanguishene
Bill Duffy, Mayor of Ramara Township
David Foster, Deputy mayor of Wasaga Beach
Ruth Hackney, Deputy mayor of Midland
Ralph Hough, Deputy mayor of Oro-Medonte
Harry Hughes, Mayor of Oro-Medonte
Brian Jackson, Mayor of Innisfil
Michael Ladouceur, Deputy mayor of Tay Township
George Lawrence, Deputy mayor of Tiny Township
Doug Leroux, Deputy mayor of Penetanguishene

Those AGAINST moratorium:

Dennis Roughley, Deputy mayor of Bradford West Gwillimbury
Alicia Savage, Deputy mayor of Clearview Township
Phil Sled, Mayor of Severn Township
Gord Wauchope, Deputy mayor of Innisfil
Doug White, Mayor of Bradford West Gwillimbury
Sandra Cooper, Deputy mayor of Collingwood
Ken Ferguson, Mayor of Clearview Township
Warden Tony Guergis, Mayor of Springwater Township
Dave Guergis, Mayor of Essa Township
Tony Hope, Deputy mayor of Springwater Township

Make sure you send letters to those who supported the moratorium, thanking them for their vote…and of course, keep pressure on those who opposed the moratorium to pass the vote being put forth by Doug Little at the next meeting.

Taken from the Barrie Examiner.

]]> By: Sue Salmon http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931&cpage=2#comment-961 Sue Salmon Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:12:24 +0000 http://stopdumpsite41.ca/?p=931#comment-961 CONGRATULATION, WELL DONE TO EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS HISTORIC VICTORY. I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING YOUR BATTLE VIA THE WEB SITE AND EMAIL UPDATES. YOU ARE AN INSPIRATION TO OTHER GROUPS WHO TAKE ON THE 'BIG BOYS'. I HAVE TASTED YOUR WATER AND IT IS THE BEST. HOPEFULLY IT WILL NOW BE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO ITS UNPOLLUTED STATE. CONGRATULATION, WELL DONE TO EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS HISTORIC VICTORY. I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING YOUR BATTLE VIA THE WEB SITE AND EMAIL UPDATES. YOU ARE AN INSPIRATION TO OTHER GROUPS WHO TAKE ON THE ‘BIG BOYS’.
I HAVE TASTED YOUR WATER AND IT IS THE BEST. HOPEFULLY IT WILL NOW BE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO ITS UNPOLLUTED STATE.

]]>