Community and Council of Canadians Walk to Save the Water and Fight Controversial Dump
WHAT: Opponents of Site 41 will hold a 7km walk, rally and concert to stop Simcoe County from building a dump site on top of the Alliston aquifer, which would forever destroy some of the purest water in the world. Community members have fought tirelessly against the Site 41 project for over fifteen years but it is scheduled to open this fall and construction or 'de-watering' of the site has begun. Due to this added urgency, opposition to Site 41 is growing, with new organizations joining the fight this past week including the Métis Nation of Ontario, the United Church of Canada (Toronto), and the David Suzuki Foundation. The concert will be headlined by Fiddes•Lefaive with additional local artists.
WHERE: The 7km walk will leave from Elmvale Arena in Elmvale. The rally and concert will take place, cross from Site 41 in Tiny Township on Concession Rd. 2 between Baseline Rd and Highway 6, just west of Waverley just north of Elmvale and just south of Penetanguishene and Midland. Site 41 is about a half hour drive north of Barrie.
WHEN: Saturday July 4. The walk will begin at 10:30 am at the Elmvale Arena. The rally and concert will begin at 1pm.
WHO: Maude Barlow, the Council of Canadians, CUPE Ontario, Simcoe County community members and women from the aboriginal camp, which has been erected across from the site since mid May.
WHY: “Water, in my opinion, is the single most important environmental and human-rights threat of our time,” says Maude Barlow, Chairperson, Council of Canadians and Senior Advisor to the President of the UN General Assembly, who will be participating in the protest. “But while millions around the world are dying and going thirsty, Simcoe County is about to violate this unique and precious Canadian aquifer.”
For more information about Site 41, visit:
www.stopdumpsite41.ca
www.canadians.org/water/issues/Site41/index.html
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