[All] Fw: Public Talk: Protect the Headwaters - Stop the Sludge Plant!

[Theo Negoita]

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Public Talk: Protect the Headwaters - Stop the Sludge
Plant! 
Location: Cafe Pyrus (16 Charles St. W., across from Charles St. Bus Terminal)
Date: Wednesday June 27th 2012
Time 6:00-8:00pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/372679929460619/

In the lead up to a July 7th 2012
walk in Dundalk, Ontario to show the mobilised, growing, and united opposition
to dangerous waste developments at the headwaters of the Grand and Saugeen Rivers, we will be joined by James Cooke of citizen's groups Stop
the Waste Park and the Southgate Public Intrest Group for a public info night where he will discuss the unfolding events, including new findings of corruption in the governing council who approved the waste park development.

Recent Information: 

SPIRG produced a broadsheet in 2011
(new one is in press) with lots of background info on the issue - check it here: Common Ground

For more information about the
resistance to this Sludge plant, check out the AW at L Radio interview with James
Cooke, and Ruby Montour, an elder from Six Nations, who have been blockading further development of the
site, in a bold and brave land protection effort:
http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/awl/2012/05/stop-waste-park

Background: 

In February 2012, residents of
Southgate township and the town of Dundalk, Ontario drove their vehicles onto
the access road leading to a construction site. The so-called
"eco-park", located near a school at the edge of town, was to be
developed into a sludge-to-fertilizer processing plant. 

This land protection action, 100 km
north of Kitchener, at the head waters of the Grand River (O:se
Kenhionhata:tie), has stopped construction of the plant which would have
processed the human sewage, industrial and medical waste that would be shipped
in from Toronto. The out-sludge would then be sprayed on fields as fertilizer
for our food stuffs!

With the support of Haudenosaunee
land defenders, and a mobilized and highly knowledgeable local community, the
blockade's energy and strength continues to grow. With the good feel of Site
41, and the general awakening of social consciousness across the land, it's
hard put to leave the site feeling optimistic about the impending court date in
July which would see the zoning rules disallow further development.
- http://stopthewastepark.com
- https://www.facebook.com/pages/STOP-the-Bio-Solids-Plant-from-Being-In-a-Town-or-near-Housing/282799498412223
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