NEW TECUMSETH – A former Alliston councillor is looking to once again sit at the New Tecumseth council table.Gary Dorland is looking to win the Ward 1 seat. The new Ward 1 covers the northwest corner of Alliston and is the area north of Young and Victoria Streets and west of Church Street. Dorl...
By NATHAN TAYLOR, THE PACKET AND TIMES May 19 2010A waste collection company has moved ahead with its lawsuit against the City of Orillia. Legal representation for Miller Waste Systems Inc. served the city earlier in the month. Miller is seeking $750,000 in damages, plus interest and legal costs. The...
Site 41 opponents might soon have to get on with their other lives. When Simcoe County council acquiesced to overwhelming public pressure and abandoned its plans for the Tiny Township landfill last summer, the writing was on the wall. Now county council will consider asking Ontario’s Environmen...
By Douglas Glynn Midland Free Press May 13 2010The town has collected water samples from private wells within an 800 meter radius of the Sundowner well to test for Trichloroethylene (TCE) and Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs). The tests were ordered after TCE was discovered following a second test of ...
News release from Site 41 group – May 12 2010Members of Simcoe County’s corporate services committee voted unanimously today to ask the Ontario Ministry of the Environment to revoke the Certificate of Approval for Site 41. The motion, which has to be ratified by County Council at its May 25 mee...
News release – May 15 2010- Gord McKay visited the Midland Town offices at 2:00 pm today to file papers for his run for Mayor. “Midland is a wonderful place with a proud heritage. Midland also faces a number of challenges that are going to require new leadership and new energy. I am asking the ...
New release forom Site 41 group – APRIL 19 2010 – According to the Toronto Star, Simcoe Grey MP Helena Guergis said she wrote a letter last September to Simcoe County Council on behalf of an energy-from-waste company at a time “Simcoe County was debating whether to open a new landfill sit...
Letter to Bradford Times March 12 2010 I read with interest the perspective on Dump Site 41 put forward by Deputy Mayor Roughley and Mayor White. Deputy Mayor Roughley is correct in pointing out that Site 41 was selected before the County took over in 1990 and that the MOE agreed it was a good [&hell...
By Douglas Glynn Barrie Examiner May 13 2010Simcoe County’s corporate services committee voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend to county council that the Ontario Ministry of the Environment be asked to revoke the certificate of approval for landfill Site 41. If county council supports the reco...
Letter to Springwater News January 21 2010 I follow with interest the developments at the County of Simcoe as it relates to its Waste Management Strategy.I am very suspicious in the fact that an outside agency Stantec is to develop a Strategy for Waste Management for the County rather than the senior...
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