Dump site 41

[tango]

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Anne Ritchie-Nahuis held in jail, bail hearing set for Friday

ELMVALE – Anne Ritchie-Nahuis, the dairy farmer who has been one of the most articulate critics of Dump Site 41, will spend the night in jail.

A bail hearing is set for 9 a.m. Friday at the Barrie courthouse.

“I spoke with Anne and she seemed determined and sad that it’s come to this in this country,” her lawyer Murray Klippenstein said. “She feels she’s doing the right thing.”

Officers with South Georgian Bay OPP pulled Ritchie-Nahuis off the road just north of Perkinsfield Thursday morning on her way back from a protest in Midland.

She was one of about 200 Site 41 opponents who had turned out to support retired farmers Keith and Ina Wood, and retired teacher Barb Hunt, all of whom turned themselves into police to be charged with mischief.

Ritchie-Nahuis – a member of the Site 41 Community Monitoring Committee that was established by an Environmental Review Board to provide accountability to the community – was put in the back of a police vehicle and taken to Midland where she was charged with mischief.

Her father Bob Ritchie was also charged.

Vicki Monague, one of the five Beausoleil Island First Nation women who started up a protest camp opposite Site 41 in May, is to turn herself on Friday.

The Woods, aged 82 and 75, and Hunt, aged 69, signed undertakings to remain away from the protest site and were released. Ritchie-Nahuis refused.

“She feels that the restrictions they are asking her to sign are unreasonable and too onerous for a situation like this,” Klippenstein said.

Bob Ritchie also refused to sign an undertaking. He was released nevertheless because of his medical condition.

A police spokesperson said the charges all relate to a court injunction obtained by Simcoe County and the individuals’ involvement with the protest at Dump Site 41 – where construction has been halted since July 6.

Rethink decision to locate dump on site of aquifer: David Crombie, Maude Barlow

It's absolutely appalling that the province is allowing the county to build this huge dump on top of the Alliston aquifier. I do not believe it will ever be used: It's just too destructive.

Kudos to the people who bravely stand up to the trucks and the charges against them.

Edited August 8, 2009 by tango

[M.Dancer]

First thing the should do is change the name of the dump. Site 41 simply has no resonance.

A name must not only capture imagination, it must encapsulate possibility.

Dump Site "Advantia" comes to mind. Sounds like it might be moving forward, but actually has no real meaning.

ADVANTIA!

Put you garbage there

Advantia!

Don't worry about the bear

Advantia!

The gates are open wide

ADVANTIA

We use the best pesiticide!

Thanks, glad to help.

[Radsickle]

Baboon trying to reduce the importance through mockery. Typical simian behaviour.

[M.Dancer]

On second thought, lets call the dump Radsickle.

On thirsd thought, no...

The name is already associated with putrid rotting garbage

[Radsickle]

On second thought, lets call the dump Radsickle.

On thirsd thought, no...

The name is already associated with putrid rotting garbage

mmm. Hope you breathe deeply.

Seriously though, who puts a dump on top of such a world-reknowned aquifier? Simcoe County dude claims that it's safe because there's a layer of `clay' and they're installing a `liner'. Whoopee. How about `relocating' instead? It has already been proven that the ground water moves up or down depending on time of year and condition. Therefore a liner would not work. Which bonehead hasn't heard the news yet?!

[Oleg Bach]

mmm. Hope you breathe deeply.

Seriously though, who puts a dump on top of such a world-reknowned aquifier? Simcoe County dude claims that it's safe because there's a layer of `clay' and they're installing a `liner'. Whoopee. How about `relocating' instead? It has already been proven that the ground water moves up or down depending on time of year and condition. Therefore a liner would not work. Which bonehead hasn't heard the news yet?!

It's all about money and contracts - the big quick bucks for some hidden jerks somewhere. Look back to the days that the built the Gardener Expressway in Toronto - total corruption that haunts the tax payer to this day..the thing keeps falling apart - reason being - For the thousand support pillars they skimpped on the materials - brought the specifications down to the lowest denominator to increase the profit for the contractor..Some jerk calculated that they could get away with using a half a yard less per support..thus leaving the rebarb a few inches closer to the exterior surface - this causes the water to penetrate to the metal reinforcements - causing the thinner layer of concrete to peel away..this has cost the city of Toronto millions upon millions in constant yearly repairs - some jerk some where back then walked away with a few million extra bucks costing the tax payer 10s of millions in repair...that is called well hidden corruption.

Follow the buck as far as this Simcoe scandal - and that is what it is - WHO is the contractor - who arranged for the bidding - why were they awarded the contract? Who appointed the judge that put forth the binding of the hands of those that protest? What are the buisness connections of the persons that appointed this judge - that does the bidding of the investors and not of the public as he or she is supposed to do? This judge is supposed to serve the people and their long term better interests - not some creeps out to make a few million and walk away ruining the area for eternity.