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Find out which councillors have the right stuff with regard to the environment

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Identify new candidates with the right mix of leadership and environmental savvy!

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Elect Town and Regional Councils which will make good environmentally sound decisions

Incinerator

Submitted by Doug Anderson on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 22:13
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Post your opinions and observations on the incinerator issue here.

This is the site of Durham's proposed garbage incinerator

For reference, the June 24th Regional Council Vote on approving the Environmental Assessment was:

For Incineration: Crawford (Ajax); O'Connor, Grant (Brock); Abernethy, Novak, Trim (Clarington); Pidwerbecki (Oshawa); Johnson, McLean, Ryan (Pickering); McMillen, Pierce (Scugog); Herrema, Shepherd (Uxbridge); Emm, Perkins (Whitby);

Against Incineration: Jordan, Parish (Ajax); Cullen, Gray, Henry, Kolodzie, Lutczyk, Neal, Nicholson (Oshawa); Littley (Pickering); Drumm, Mitchell (Whitby);

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Whitby needs a Mayor that listens

Submitted by ChrisWhite on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 17:55.

I applaud the decision by Joe Drumm and Don Mitchell in Whitby to vote against the incinerator. They went against the heavily biased consultant's reports and recommendations by voting to reject the incinerator.

Also, it must be said again that we need a better Mayor than Pat Perkins, who chose to ignore the 75 delegations from concerned citizens when voting for the incinerator.

I am hopeful that strong person(s) with integrity will run for the Mayor's job in Whitby in 2010. Whitby needs a Mayor who listens and is not afraid to do what is right.

Here is an excerpt from the news article on the committee vote back in July.

http://newsdurhamregion.com/article/128854

With that, Regional councillors, meeting in a committee-of-the-whole format, voted to recommend to the full council that an incinerator be built in Clarington.

The final vote came at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, 16 hours after the committee began meeting, making it probably the longest meeting in Region history. About 75 delegations spoke, with only three in favour of building the incinerator.