UPDATE: Warden agrees to place Ogden letter on agenda of Jan. 28 special meeting of councilELMVALE ON, January 25 – Simcoe County’s proposed consultation process for the waste management strategy it is going to adopt for the next 20 years is not good enough. So say more than 180 citizens who have sig...
by Phil Birchard 97.1 The Beach January 23, 2010 Simcoe County’s new warden is settling into his role nicely.Warden Cal Patterson was acclaimed just over a month ago, and he says it’s been an interesting experience so far.He says the job has a tremendous work load, but it’s certainl...
By WES KELLER Orangeville CitizenResponses from Dufferin’s local municipalities on the possibility f the county assuming waste management responsibilities has been “disappointing but predictable” says Shelburne Mayor Ed Crewson, chairman of the county committee responsible for development of DEEP, th...
By Nicole Million Midland MirrorMIDLAND – An outspoken advocate for safe drinking water is concerned about a possible “plume of leachate” at the former Midland/Penetanguishene/Tiny landfill site on Golf Link Road.Steve Ogden – who has been front and centre for more than 20 years attempting to stop co...
Posted By RAYMOND BOWE Municipal elections are still nine months away, but several politicians have already filed the paperwork and hit the ground running. One of the more interesting races to watch could be Springwater Township. Mayor Tony Guergis, who took a lot of heat from the public during the p...
Several townships, including Oro-Medonte, were paying more than they should have been By NATHAN TAYLOR, Orillia Packet AND Times Oro-Medonte Township, along with other municipalities, has been overpaying the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA). The wrong percentages were being used to ca...
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 has served as a member and an alternate member of ...
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 and stop putting any waste into dump sites here ...
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 County warden Cal Patterson announced after meeti...
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, has long been flagged as suspect by the Site 41 C...
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