From Nicholas Rolfe, Environmental DefenceThere’s a crucial meeting of the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority Board coming up this Friday, where they will decide whether to grant a permit to cut trees on the site.Environmental Defence and the Innisfil District Association will be making ...
By Nicole Million Midland MirrorTINY TOWNSHIP – A Tiny Township man hoping to enter the political arena this fall is asking mayors and deputy mayors who still support Site 41 to stand up and be counted.Peter Davenport has started Politicians United Defending Dump’s Legal Existence (PUDDLE) in hopes o...
Barrie Examiner editorialPublic trust is an integral ingredient to good government, but once lost is tough to regain. The County of Simcoe is discovering this as it attempts to develop a new waste management strategy. Three public open houses last week had a familiar theme. That would be Site 41, the...
By Joanne Saunders Wasaga SunRepresentatives of Simcoe County’s Environmental Services and its waste management consultants kept their cool in the face of barbs thrown from area residents at a Feb. 9 public consultation on the county’s solid waste management strategy.While the county rece...
By R. turgano thegreenpagesChatting with Gord McKay from Zero Waste Simcoe.Q. What is Zero Waste Simcoe and how did it come about? A. Zero Waste Simcoe is a grassroots organization dedicated to helping Simcoe County become a Zero Waste community. Its 200 plus members, from across the County, are read...
From Gord McKay, of Zero Waste SimcoeThe County’s three public consultation sessions on our waste future have just wrapped up. Some 250 people attended, providing feedback through a formatted workbook and somewhat fractious Town Hall meetings. Much of the meeting time was devoted to Stantec, the Coun...
By DOUGLAS GLYNN Barrie Examiner Simcoe County officials are having to overcome public trust issues as they try to move forward on ways to deal with garbage over the next two decades. That was apparent last Wednesday when the county and staff from Stantec Consulting hosted the last of three public op...
Alliston Herald February 12, 2010It seems with every passing week, one or two more candidates enter the race for the New Tecumseth municipal election this fall. This week is no exception.Corine Dol and Wayne Noye have added their names to New Tecumseth’s election ballot.Dol is a real estate age...
BY Bruce Hain Alliston Herald February 02, 2010INNISFIL – A person well known to many Innisfil residents is running for mayor — again.Barb Baguley, a former Innisfil deputy mayor (1997-2006) and town councillor (1988 to 1997), has decided to re-enter the political arena. She filed her nominatio...
By Kate Harries WaterWatchMIDLAND — For those at who talked to the Stantec team at their information panels during last week’s consultation sessions, the messaging was unmistakeable: incineration is the way to go.Not surprising. Stantec is the consultant on the Durham York incinerator, currentl...
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