Let's hope that our Clarington Council takes a close look at this motion and will take similar actions. The public is behind this by a huge majority. We are all becoming much more informed - more so than many of the politicians who are pushing this project on us. Many have not bothered to do any research into incineration, as they have their one-sided consultants giving them all the information they need - to keep pushing for it. According to Regional Consultants so far, there is really no down side to hosting an incinerator. It's all light and roses; all good. Only harmless water vapour emissions from the stack. Ash that will disappear and barely need to take up any space in landfills. No traffic problems, no infrastructure problems, not toxin problems. Health concerns? Heck no! It's as safe as other government sanctioned things like asbestos - oh, wait. I forgot, they changed their minds on that one. It's as safe as Thalidomide. Oh wait, they changed their minds on that one too. It's as safe as... well, you get the picture. Those dioxins and furans which have no safe levels at all, will be at a level that the government will tell us is safe. And we all trust the government (all levels), right?
Whereas the Township of East Gwillimbury has unanimously opposed the location of an incinerator within its boundaries and has indicated that it is not a willing host community for an incinerator, and
Whereas the Region of Durham has consistently refused to support resolutions that would require any municipality in Durham to be a willing host community before being considered for an incineration site, and
Whereas sites in Clarington will cause a real and demonstrated health hazard to the residents of Oshawa, with prevailing winds depositing dioxin, furans, nanoparticles and other noxious and poisonous materials over large portions of Oshawa.
Be it resolved,
That the Council of the City of Oshawa indicated to the Region of Durham and to the Region of York that it is not a willing recipient of the wastes and poisons discharged into the air from a proposed incinerator potentially located in the municipality of Clarington.
That the Council of the City of Oshawa urges our neighbouring municipality of Clarington to join with East Gwillimbury to indicated its opposition to an incinerator being located in Clarington and that they pass a resolution indicating that they are not a willing host municipality for any potential incineration site.
That the Council of the City of Oshawa urge the Region of Durham and the Region of York to respect the wishes of the local Councils by committing to a protocol that would not allow any incinerator to be located in any community that is not a declared willing host community by a resolution of its local council after public consultation.
The Council of the City of Oshawa strongly urges all local Councils in the Region of Durham and the Region of York to support the actions taken in East Gwillimbury and to take similar actions to those included in this resolution.
That a copy of this resolution be sent to all regional and local councils and council members in the Regional Municipalities of Durham and York and to all MP’s and MPP’s in ridings located within those regions.
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We commend Councillor Nicholson and hope Oshawa Council will send their very strong voices to the Region for the benefit of Clarington, Oshawa and all Durham Region residents.
There is a better way than Thermal Treatment or Energy From Waste (INCINERATION). There are safer, less expensive, and much CLEANER ways to deal with trash. No one technology is absolutely perfect (yet), but experts are working on it. And to date, they have come up with a better way. Lets hope they will take the time to examine it.
Go Oshawa! I live in Oshawa, and have recently joined with the Clarington residents and others to protest the way in which Regional Council is trying to ram this incinerator down our throats. Why won't they go back and take another look at alternatives? Because Chair Anderson says no, he wants the incinerator. He has made the decison, and although he says regional council made the decision, everyone knows it was him. He drives this council and is driving this incinerator project. This is why he is so afraid of direct election of the Chair. The man is not highly regarded outside of his King of the Hill domain. Respect for him has been dropping among the public over a number of issues.
ReplyDeleteBravo to Oshawa for this motion, and I sure do hope it will be passed by the majority of our council. Too bad all the Oshawa councillors were not at the CAW meeting. It was an eye-opener.
Thank you Oshawa. We need all the help we can get and we appreciate your support.
ReplyDeleteOur hats are off to Brian Nicholson for his offer to put this motion on the floor of Oshawa City Council. Let's hope we can tip our hat to the entire Council after they vote.
ReplyDeleteIt's a damn shame that we have to place our hopes on a neighbor to bail us out because we don't have the poitical will between our 3 Regional Councillors (Mayor Abernethy, Mary Novak and Charlie Trim)to face up to Roger Anderson.
Too bad we only have followers and no leaders!
Luckily our 4 local councillors have tired of being ignored or taken for granted by the 3 regional councillors, and have decided they will stand up for residents and for Clarington. It is so nice to see them doing that and I sure hope they will continue. It could not have been easy for them but they are standing tall. And now at least some of Oshawa is reaching out to help us. That bodes well not only for Clarington, but for an alliance with our neighbour to the west that can be beneficial to both municipalities. No reason we need to be adversarial. Much better to work together.
ReplyDeleteThank you Oshawa, and thank you Councillors Woo, Robinson, Hooper and Foster. You make me proud to be a Claringtonian again. And it's been a long time coming!
Ban the Burn. I love it. Next maybe we could ban the Regional level of government? That would be an improvement and necessary for our health and welfare too. I am becoming more and more disillusioned with the region and the chair of the region. His behaviour is atrocious. As the main driving force behind this incineration thing, it makes me wonder...
ReplyDeleteWe fought the Adams Mine twice here in Toronto and it was defeated.The Green Bins and large recycling bins are working.The LCBO bottle deposit system is a huge success.
ReplyDeleteThe incinerator must be stopped!!
It is maddness in the face of global warming.
I think people don't understand the GOOD this plant will do in our community. Think of all the new jobs it will create? Not only new jobs, but new specialty programs at our college and university. What is wrong with you people ?
ReplyDeleteLou, you're kidding, right? This plant will create 33 jobs (according to the consultants themselves). As opposed to thousands of jobs if the Region instead adopts a zero waste plan. Check out the Nova Scotia operation. Check your facts about incineration jobs with the region's consultants, not counting the temp jobs for construction of it.
ReplyDeleteResearch and Development for new product design for products and packaging that are reusable and biodegradable and for EPR will create many, many more specialty programs at our college and university.
Do your research before supporting something unhealthy and unsustainable just because you think it will create more jobs. It will actually create fewer jobs, unless you mean in the medical community as we'll need more docs for all the ailments arising from the increased burden on our airshed and our lungs. And we don't have enough doctors here as it is!