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 ...
By Patrick Meagher Eastern Ontario Farmers Forum April 2010FINCH — All the man wanted to do was spread soil over his back yard to eliminate the slope and level if off. The local conservation authority swooped in to take photographs, analyze the development and demand $500 for a permit. The man backed...
By Maija Hoggett Simcoe.com April 13 2010NEW TECUMSETH – A New Tecumseth councillor is asking for changes to the membership of a Simcoe County conservation authority subcommittee.New Tecumseth Coun. Dennis Egan said Essa Mayor David Guergis and Oro-Medonte Mayor Harry Hughes sitting on the seve...
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...
County councillors plan conservation authority reviewBy Kate Harries WaterWatchCounty councillors on the newly minted conservation authority review sub-committee met today to adopt their terms of reference. Present were Warden Cal Patterson, Ramara Deputy Mayor Basil Clarke, Essa Mayor David Guergis,...
Letter on Simcoe.comRe: Town bill authorized after debate, Innisfil JournalApril 8. Lets get this straight. The Cortel Group of developers donates a piece of land (adjacent to other land they own) to The Royal Victoria Hospital supposedly for a future hospital and the Town of Innisfil gets stuck payi...
New Tecumseth Online April 13 2010New Tecumseth Ward 4 councillor Dennis Egan last night questioned why the mayor of Essa Township and Oro Medonte were appointed to a Simcoe County council sub-committee that will “research, review and report on the roles and responsibilities of the Conservation...
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...
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...
Orangeville Citizen April 1 2010 — Letter — I noticed in our newspaper that Adjala-Tosorontio Councillor Jack Jordan would like a meeting with the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority to clear up muddy waters around fill in the township. It is good to have dialogue to resolve any con...