Mediation returning results in dump dispute By Meghan Balogh, Napanee Guide Friday, April 19, 2013 Progress has been made regarding an appeal to the Environmental Review Tribunal on Waste Management’s handling of the Richmond Landfill. On Friday a continuation of the preliminary hearing presented the results of recent mediation between all the parties involved: Waste Management (WM), the Ministry of the Environment (MOE), the... Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Richmond Landfill’
Environmental Review Tribunal – Napanee Guide Report April 19, 2013
April 20 | Posted by Jeff | News, Uncategorized
LeakyLand Fundraiser Raffle
April 1 | Posted by Mike | News, Public Notice, The Leaky Land BlogConcerned Citizens have been battling the world’s largest waste company for over 15 years. Our goal is a simple one. We want to protect the environment from the impact of the Richmond Landfill. There is evidence that leachate is migrating off-site from the Richmond Landfill Site and causing off-site groundwater impacts. Due to the fractured limestone on which it is located, determining... Read more
Jeff Whan Reacts to ERT Hearing and WM Public Information Session.
July 8 | Posted by Jeff | Letters & CommentsIn response to the first Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT) hearing on June 25, 2012 and the public information session held by Waste Management on June 27, 2012, Concerned Citizen Jeff Whan wrote the following letter to the Napanee Beaver. To the Editor: Last week the first in what will be a series of public hearings that took place in Selby. These formal legal hearings are... Read more
Finally Someone is Listening
June 23 | Posted by Heather | The Leaky Land BlogFinally the local residents of this area are going to get an opportunity to pursue their longstanding concerns about the now closed Richmond Landfill’s risk to air quality, surface water and ground water. We take it for granted that it should be a right to have clean air and water , however, our world doesn’t work that way. We need to be... Read more
Aerial Photo of the Richmond Landfill
June 7 | Posted by Heather | Photo LibraryThis is an aerial photo of the Richmond Landfill in Greater Napanee, Ontario Canada. The base of this garbage mound covers three times the area of the largest Egyptian pyramids. It holds approximately 3 million metric tonnes of human refuse and although it holds no mummy, it does carry a curse. The leachate (garbage juice) produced within it is expected to be toxic for approximately... Read more
Response to Waste Management’s Open Letter Advertisement of May 31, 2012
June 5 | Posted by Jeff | Letters & CommentsWhile we understand you and your company must realize that there will be public scrutiny of your stewardship of the closed Richmond Landfill, we would like to remind you that we already have copies of most of the correspondence between you and the Ministry of the Environment. In fact most of this material is now in the public domain. One... Read more
PUBLIC NOTICE
June 4 | Posted by Carolyn | Public NoticeWaste Management and the Ministry of the Environment have been ordered to appear before Ontario’s Environmental Review Tribunal about the closed Richmond Landfill site. ‘The Tribunal finds that the landfill either is currently producing or could in the future produce significant harm to the environment’ (Environmental Review Tribunal’s reason for granting appeal to citizens, 2012) We need to protect our land and... Read more
Concerned Citizens Launch Campaign- First Public Meeting May 23 7:00pm Napanee and District Secondary School
May 15 | Posted by Jeff | NewsConcerned citizens announce the launch of a public information campaign to inform local residents and municipal and provincial representatives of the issues surrounding the proposal to build a new mega landfill adjacent to the existing and highly controversial Richmond landfill in the Town of Greater Napanee. This new landfill expansion is known as the Beechwood Road Environmental Centre (BREC). The... Read more
Ontario’s Environmental Review Tribunal Leave to Appeal – Document March 30, 2012
March 30 | Posted by Jeff | Document LibraryThis 26 page document gives details of the decision taken by Ontario’s Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT) to grant leave to appeal certain terms of Waste Management’s Environmental Monitoring Plan for the closed Richmond Landfill. ERT Leave to Appeal March 30, 2012 (from the document) “The landfill is located approximately 1 km north of Highway 401, northeast of the intersection of County Road 10 and... Read more
Stephen Medd Reacts to Waste Management Public Information Session.
July 8 | Posted by Heather | Letters & CommentsIn response to the public information session held by Waste Management on June 27, 2012 Concerned Citizen Stephen Medd wrote the following letter to the Napanee Beaver. To the Editor: Despite Waste Management’s efforts over the last 14 years to try to convince people that they are the owners of the “facts” nothing could be farther from the truth. The fact is their last... Read more