Tiny Township dump site 41 fact sheet

Tiny Township dump site 41 fact sheet

1. The proposed dump site and design is a about as safe as any method of waste disposal could be for this location and this number of users.

By a roadside in Tiny Township there is a pipe flowing clear spring water, needing no pump, year round. People line up to fill their water bottles. the water flows because this part of the Alliston aquifer the pipe taps into is under pressure. Obviously, then, no water from the surface can flow down into it, contaminating it. The Alliston aquifer is enormous in extent, from Georgian Bay to south of Lake Simcoe, almost to the Oakridges Moraine. There are probably dozens of dumps on the surface over it, including the entire city of Barrie. One more small dump is not going to add any significant threat not already present.

2. The citizens of Simcoe County have voted consistently for the past 25 years for county councillors who pushed for this dump. They have spent 25 years, thousands of person hours, and $11 million dollars studying the facts, weighing alternatives and likely costs and compromises. If anybody expected to make short term profits from this, those people are long gone.

3. Only the citizens of Tiny township will be able to use it

5. It would be constructed to confirm to all the environmental assessment and legally required safe guards mandated by the Province of Ontario ( and even and beyond those).

6. The major opponents of the proposal, spearheaded by David Suzuki and Maude Barlow ( Council of Canadians) have put out a huge propaganda and communication effort, unable to be matched by the relatively small number of voters in that County. These environmental jehadists and cohorts from Toronto have not offered, that I can discover, one word of educational description or of science on the facts of this proposal or its likely effect on the environment.

7. This proposal and its success or failure is the responsibility and the accountability of only the residents of Simcoe County None of its outside detractors have any accountability for the results or the costs of their tyrannical overthrowing of local democracy.

8. I am extremely disappointed to discover how those in the media and in the environmental movement, in the forefront of it, can so blithely ignore data and facts, in their pursuit of publicity for their cause.

9. The lesson that the elders and the media are teaching the young over this, is that is far more exciting, and much easier, to try to get decisions by marching and shouting slogans publicly, than it is to study issues, debate, consult, compromise and vote. No wonder young people don't vote, what's the point of going to all that effort, if any bunch of well financed jehadists with time on their hands, wielding false propaganda and media hype, can overturn the tiresome slowness of democracy ?

Donato Cianci Sept. 7, 2009
donato@donatopoetry.com