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STOP SITE 41!
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In a country as developed as Canada, it’s easy to get distracted from what’s really important by things like Canadian Idol. And it’s upsetting to think that there are more people willing to camp out for Rush tickets than give a hoot about domestic politics. But, like everything in life, there are exceptions. And when these exceptions come in the form of citizens, it reinstates some lost appreciation of Canadian culture.

As some of us tend to forget, water is the mother of all life, and we should feel lucky to have access to so much of it Canada, particularly in Ontario. It’s also been proven that Ontario is home to some of the cleanest water in the world. Dr. William Shotyk, a geochemist teaching at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, tested the groundwater of the Simcoe County of Ontario and called it “the cleanest water in the world” and said that he would have to drill down 20 years in arctic ice to find its equivalent. If that doesn’t stir up a feeling of patriotism, I don’t know what will.

Unfortunately enough, not a lot of people care. In fact, we care so little that there’s actual plan to build a landfill site right over top of this pristine H2O. Pretty lame, eh?

Landfills have been proven to have major consequences on the water supply of the surrounding area, and are classified as a point source of water pollution. Landfills produce something called leachate, which is rain water that collects at the bottom of a dump site after running through all the trash and soaking up all the contaminants. Leachate is highly toxic and can be very dangerous if it leaks into the ground water and gets into the water cycle. This leachate can be controlled by different collection and filtering systems, but it’s been proven that they don’t really work. They eventually break down or leak and allow the leachate to enter the natural water cycle, and subsequently, our drinking water.

The Site 41 proposal has been challenged for almost two decades by the citizens of Simcoe County. Danny Beaton has been fronting the objection with admiral passion, and managed to get over 5000 signatures on the petition against the landfill. But even with all those names, plans to move ahead with construction have been approved.

Be a proud Canadian, and start giving a canuck about our water!

To sign the petition, go here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-dump-site-41

To find out more about Site 41 and water pollution, go here:

http://www.stopdumpsite41.ca/

http://greenparty.ca/en/media-release/2009-01-28/elizabeth-may-joins-fight-stop-dump-site-41

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_tragedy

http://www.ec.gc.ca/Water/en/manage/poll/e_howgrd.htm

http://www.goldhawk.com/static.php?id=audio


May 14, 2009 | 12:45 PM Comments  1 comments

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