By Laurie Watt Midland MirrorBARRIE – A “key messages” guide that touts Site 41 as “superior to all other sites considered” shows Simcoe County still believes the site would make a good landfill, says a longtime anti-dump activist.Stephen Ogden – who h...

By Kate Harries WaterWatchThe wording of the resolution – proposed by Nickolas Rowe and seconded by Mary Munnoch – to the waste strategy steering committee seemed perfectly clear.“That this committee wishes county council to have no more landfill sites...

By Morgan Ian Adams Collingwood Enterprise BulletinCOLLINGWOOD – Site 42 is no longer a dot on Simcoe County’s waste management map. On Monday, while taking part in the ‘grand reopening’ of the regional airport’s runway, Simcoe ...

By Kate Harries WaterWatchThe Ontario Ministry of the Environment has reviewed the 2008 Site 41 monitoring report prepared by Jagger Hims (a division of Genivar) and identified problems at two monitoring wells.One, Borehole 5 in the centre of Site 41, ...

By Douglas Glynn Midland Free Press January 17 2010PERKINSFIELD – Tiny Township’s deputy mayor told the Site 41 community monitoring committee Thursday he is confident the mothballed property on the 2nd concessions will not become a landfill. Geo...

Beausoleil First Nation Chief Rodney Monague has appointed Councillor Elizabeth Brass Elson, who has the Environmental Portfolio, to be a First Nations representative on Simcoe County’s waste management strategy steering committee. She joins a te...

By DOUGLAS GLYNN Midland Free Press January 13 2010-Ask Tony Guergis how things went for him in his role as Mayor of Springwater Township in 2009 and he will tell you it was a very good year. “One of the successes of 2009 of which I am most proud...

By Kate Harries WaterWatchIt’s been some time since members of the Site 41 Community Monitoring Committee first asked whether they were covered by the indemnity bylaw that protects Simcoe County councillors and staff from liability for decisions taken....

By DOUGLAS GLYNN Midland Free PressSteve Ogden’s battle with Simcoe County over access to the Modflow data relied on to approve dump Site 41 has taken a new twist. In December, the county announced that it was going seek a judicial review of the ...

By Kate Harries WaterWatchWord is that the names Stephen Ogden, Dale Godhawk and Garfield Dunlop came up during the December 15 media training session that was part of the $250,000 package Simcoe County councillors purchased from pricey PR firm Fleishm...