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Sep 19th, 2021
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Four of Simcoe North’s candidates attended Friday’s protest outside Teedon Pit in Tiny Township. (From left to right): Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux (Liberal Party of Canada), Janet-Lynne Durnford (New Democratic Party of Canada), Krystal Brooks (Green Party of Canada), and Stephen Makk (Peopl...
Sep 9th, 2021
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See the original Water Watcher’s request for endorsement of their moratorium on gravel extraction here: gravel_moratorium_paper_aug-17-2021. The Climate Crisis Threatens Our Homes Everyone wants to feel safe and secure at home. Home is where we live, a community and natural environment that sur...
Sep 9th, 2021
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David Hopkins (bottom row, left), senior hydrologist at R.J. Burnside & Associates Limited, provided an in-depth look to Tiny council at the problems with a sewage water application within the controversial Teedon Pit operations. By Derek Howard, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter – Midla...
Sep 2nd, 2021
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Midland resident and chair of AWARE Simcoe, Don Morgan From Simcoe.com, August 31, 2021 By Andrew Mendler The preservation and protection of Georgian Bay, local aquifers and the region’s diverse woodlands and wetlands is top of mind for many area residents heading into the federal election. “Unfortun...
Aug 20th, 2021
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A view of the Teedon Pit on Darby Road in Tiny Township. From BarrieToday, August 16, 2021 ByDerek Howard ‘To expand such operations would be a crime against future generations, against our grandchildren and beyond,’ says University of Guelph hydrogeologist A resident’s plea to stop an ag...
Aug 12th, 2021
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Please sign and share this petition to protect the aquifer that holds the cleanest water in the world. The Teedon Gravel Pit in Waverley used to be a small gravel pit.  Since 2009 they have intermittently been using a well and wash pond to take a combined maximum of 6.8 million litres of water each [...
Jul 28th, 2021
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A aerial view of the Teedon Pit on Darby Road in Tiny Township From Orillia Matters, July 27, 2021 By Derek Howard ‘We’ve had too many proposals that have gone forward in Tiny that have contaminated the groundwater sources,’ says Anne Nahuis There is no water under the bridge so long as t...
Jul 15th, 2021
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Please come out and help us to make more public, our very important cause to protect and save the “exceptional” groundwater at FRENCH’S HILL (and Simcoe Uplands) by coming out every Friday from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm.  (To stop the expansion of the Teedon Pit on the Hill, and to stop th...
Jul 11th, 2021
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Teedon Pit – Community Liaison Tour 2019 A Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) Hearing is being held this month on Friday July 23, 2021 at 10:00 AM on the proposed expansion of the Teedon Pit by CRH Canada Inc. on French’s Hill in Tiny Township. They intend to remove gravel to a depth of 10 [&helli...
Jun 22nd, 2021
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Decision to walk back support for pristine water sparks anger, disappointment By Kate Harries AWARE News Network  You may not have heard about this, because the decision was taken behind closed doors, but on May 21 2021, three Tiny Township councillors voted to walk back the municipality’s stance of ...