Stop Dump Site 41

There is a crisis taking place in Ontario in a small town next to Georgian Bay called Tiny Township.

Photo credit: Douglas Glynn, feat. Elizabeth May, Maude Barlow, Danny Beaton

The Minister of Environment has approved the relocation of ground water, the pumping of 225 million litres of water this April 2009. It is the water of the deep Alliston Aquifer below the proposed Dump Site 41.

In a recent report, German scientist Dr William Shotyk noted the water bubbling from the Surface Springs is so clean the only match for its purity is ice pulled from the bottom of Arctic ice cores from snows deposited thousands of years ago, well before any high-polluting industries existed. “This is kind of like the Old-Growth Forest of natural waters”, says William Shotyk, a geochemistry professor of the University of Heidelberg in Germany. It’s the best water on earth – in Tiny Township.

On January 29, 2009 myself, Maude Barlow, Senior Advisor on Water to the United Nations General Assembly and Chair of the Council of Canadians, Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, Stephen Ogden, Leader of Citizens for Safe Water, Dan McDermott, Director of the Sierra Club Ontario and Roger Langen of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF) were gathered at Queen’s Park Press Gallery to Launch Facebook Petition Campaign to Stop Dump Site 41. The Facebook Petition is directed to Premier Dalton McGuinty and the Minister of Environment, John Gerretsen.

Since this Coalition of environmentalists was formed signatures and letters are urgently needed from teachers, students and the public opposed to the destruction of our Surface Springs here in Georgian Bay.

These Springs we have here in Tiny Township, Ontario, Canada are a natural resource of unprecedented/ unimaginable beauty and healing for our children’s future, to learn from and survive. We have Maude Barlow and Elizabeth May, two leaders of Canada, opposed to this atrocity as well as Dan McDermott and Roger Langen, as witnesses to these facts at our press conference January 29, 2009.

I am a Mohawk environmentalist asking people to support this Facebook Petition to protect life because water is the lifeblood we all have to stand up for now before it is lost for our children’s future.

Sincerely,

Danny Beaton
Turtle Clan, Mohawk Nation

» Download Printable copy of this Letter