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Vicki Monague, Maude Barlow, and Anne Richie-Nahuis at a rally in July, 2009. Photo by the Community Monitoring Committee.

Mark Calzavara, the Council of Canadians‘ Regional Organizer for Ontario and Quebec, speaks with LeeAnne MacGregor to talk about the scheduled opening of Dump Site 41, set to be Ontario’s largest landfill site. They are joined by Vicki Monague of the Community Monitoring Committee, who was one of the first people to set up a blockade at the site; Vicki remained at the site for 97 days until the County-imposed injunction prompted her arrest on July 29. The dump site has been a controversial issue since it was first selected in 1986. The stifled access to information about the approval process have led many to protest the construction of a landfill that may compromise the safety of their water. The Alliston aquifer over which the dump site is to be built contains some of the world’s purest groundwater and connects to water sources across Southern Ontario – including Georgian Bay and the Oak Ridges Morraine.

You can see the complete episode here: TGM #151: Alliston Aquifer (August 21, 2009)