By Stephen Ogden WaterWatch
On Friday February 5th I met with Bruce Stanton MP. I wanted to bring Bruce up to date on what the public understood to be a complete halt of construction and development of waste facilities at Site 41 and what the County really meant.
I told Bruce about the County Key Messaging document, dated December 14th, revealing, in part, that retaining the Certificate of Approval (C of A) was the only way to truly ensure the County’s direction is maintained and the C of A provided the County with the authority to construct and develop the North Simcoe Landfill Site.
In addition, Simcoe County said the C of A confirmed the “sound science” behind the landfill, deemed it to be environmentally responsible and, in partnership with zoning by-laws, it has the effect of increasing the net value of the land.
Bruce was surprised and disappointed to hear this turn of events.
Bruce was also able to advise me that his efforts to have the Federal Government intervene last summer in the development of Site 41 resulted in a negative reaction from Ottawa. For me that did not come as a big surprise. After 24 years why would anyone expect the Feds to stand up for the purest water every measured on Earth?
We discussed what the County felt would be extensive public consultation to receive valuable input towards developing the 20-year waste diversion strategy. Only time will tell if the one-hour portion of the three public meetings in Alliston, Wasaga Beach and Midland, next week, will substitute for real and meaningful public participation. To my knowledge no consideration has been given as to how to get the input of the many seasonal residents and snow birds in the plans for “extensive” consultation now underway with Simcoe County’s residents.
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I received a flyer from MP Bruce Stanton in the mail today. It asks for the public to come out to a meeting held at 4 different locations and give their thoughts on the 2010 Federal Budget and Throne Speech. It’s an interactive round-table discussion.
When I saw that I wondered what SC was doing to inform the public of the 3 public consultation sessions. I haven’t heard or seen anything about it except on the SC website.
Why couldn’t they send out the same kind of letter to each household in SC so everyone knows about it..and also change the dates so they can give us more notice..and not 3 days in a row.
To me it looks like they don’t want too many people coming out and give their opinions because they already have their plan in place. They’re just going through the motions.