MPP DUNLOP – Invitation
to Premier to Visit Site 41
Dear Premier McGuinty:
I am writing to you to-day to extend to you an
invitation to visit the site of the proposed County
of Simcoe landfill, namely Site 41, located in
the township of Tiny, just 4 km southeast of the
community of Wyevale.
In particular, Mr. Premier, I would like you to
see with your own eyes the high volume of cold
clear water that spews from a test well on the
site when the sealed cap on the well is removed.
I witnessed this myself, post Walkerton, and am
confident that if you were to visit the site,
the County of Simcoe would conveniently arrange
to remove the cap for you to witness. Nearby well
water has recently been tested at the state-of-the-art
facilities at the University of Heidleberg and
the test have indicated that the water from these
wells may in fact be as clean and clear as any
water found on our planet.
You can understand the frustration and disappointment
from the tens of thousands of North Simcoe residents
opposing the landfill, when just days before committee
hearings were to proceed on Bill 43, The Clean
Water Act, the Minister, Ms. Broten, gave final
approval to the design of the landfill. I thought
that Walkerton and Justice Dennis O’Connor’s
report would have changed the manner in which
we handle our household waste adjacent to precious
and pristine groundwater.
I personally have read thousands of signatures
on petitions into the record at Queen’s
Park, have introduced a Private Member’s
bill that parallels the Adam’s Mine Lake
Act, have asked for a review of the application
under the Environmental Bill of Rights, and have
spoken as recently as the Third Reading of Bill
43, The Clean Water Act, on the problems associated
with placing a landfill over some of the most
pristine water on the earth.
I simply could not support Bill 43, primarily
because of the Site 41 design approval.
Premier, we need you to intervene. I ask you to
visit the site. Judge for yourself whether you
really believe that Site 41 is a suitable location
for a landfill.
Once you see the site, I am confident that you
will agree that with hundreds of millions of people
in the world that do not have access to drinking
water, it is probably a really bad idea to place
a landfill at Site 41.
I look forward to your response and to your visit
at your convenience, to Site 41.
Sincerely,
Garfield Dunlop, MPP Simcoe North
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