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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...
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By WES KELLER Orangeville Citizen May 6 2010Shelburne council is conditionally committed to sending the town’s household solid waste to the proposed gasification facility at Dufferin EcoEnergy Park (DEEP), but it’s difficult to know whether the council would favour a total takeover of waste managemen...
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By Richard Blanchard Innisfil Scope April 21 2010A survey of the waste disposed by 100 households in Simcoe County has shown a big drop in the amount of garbage heading to local landfills, due to the introduction of an organics program. Environmental Services Director Rob McCullough reported to the c...
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Letter to Simcoe.com April 20 2010VICTORIA HARBOUR – Re: “Still not buying county’s Site 41 position,” The Mirror, April 15.The stepping down of Tony Guergis has made no difference in some Simcoe County councillors’ decisions. It seems they feel asking the Ontario government to rescind the certificat...
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By Janyce MacGregor CBC NewsWright Tech/Green Rite Solutions have got back to me with a response. Here is their release, verbatim:Wright Tech Systems, Gillani and Jaffer; Setting the record Straight “We never had any financial dealings with Gillani or Jaffer” – Jim Wright, Chairman ...
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by Kevin Donovan Toronto Star April 16 2010 Helena Guergis touted a green technology company to Simcoe County officials while her husband Rahim Jaffer and businessman Nazim Gillani were involved in a plan to take the firm public in a $1 billion deal. Guergis wrote a letter last September to the top m...
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By DOUGLAS GLYNN By Douglas Glynn Midland Free Press April 15 2010As of September 2009, Simcoe County had spent upwards of $60,000 on legal fees in the dispute over access to the calibrated computer model (Modflow) that was relied on to grant the certificate of approval for dump Site 41, a county off...
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By DOUGLAS GLYNN Orillia Packet and Times April 8 2010 A letter sent to the Site 41 community monitoring committee (CMC) suggests Simcoe County spent more than $112,000 on legal fees in a 20-month period in the battle over public access to the computer model (Modflow) of the hydrogeology at the mothb...
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SDS41 April 3 2010Simcoe County has spent more than $240,000 to withhold the Site 41 Modflow calibrated computer model from the Site 41 Community Monitoring Committee and the public, a letter to the Site 41 Community Monitoring Committee from Tiny Township resident Hugh Anson-Cartwright reveals.The q...
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Site 41 opponents shouldn’t be focusing on the next Simcoe County council to make sure the controversial landfill never opens. They should continue to pressure this group of county councillors. Last summer, under extreme public pressure, this county council decided not to go ahead with its plan...